Lottery Scam Email:
POWERBALL LOTTERY E-GAMES PROMOTIONS
"AWARD WINNING EMAIL
NOTIFICATION!!"
from "Mr. Scott Michael"
Ah, another "computer ballot system" lottery scam. If you haven't
figured it out by now, we'll repeat; there is NO SUCH THING as a "Computer Random Selection System (CRSS)"
of email addresses to select lottery winners. Ask yourself why would anyone
give money away to strangers based on their email address. You'd have to
be begging to be a victim to believe this one.
Notice the gibberish writing,
excessive use of CAPITAL letters, etc. Note the other clues to an obvious fraud that we
have highlighted in the
letter; keep confidential, selected by a random computer lottery of email
addresses, use of free hotmail/yahoo email accounts, etc.
A potential victim received the email below, and actually wrote the
"contact" and said that she had never set foot in the UK to enter a lottery,
to which he replied with the second e-mail (below the first). Scammers
are certainly persistent.
First scam email
FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER
POWERBALL LOTTERY E-GAMES PROMOTIONS
UNTIED KINGDOM.
RE: AWARD WINNING EMAIL NOTIFICATION!!!
We wish to notify and congratulate you on the selection of your email
ID as the jackpot winning entry in the Powerball E-Games Promotions,
being the inaugural edition of our new e-lottery program. Your email ID identified with Ballot No.PBL2348974321 and was selected among the
winning email ID's in the draws held today using the latest version of
the Computer Random Selection System (CRSS) from the 50,000 promotional entries submitted by our international software support/affiliate
companies.
You have been awarded with the jackpot promotional cash prize of
GB2,714,000.00(Two million, seven hundred and fourteen thousand British
pounds sterling) credited to Reference Numbers PB/EGP/60961/OV.To
immediately process the claims of your prize award, please contact your
assigned
claims agent:
Name: Mr. Scott Micheal.
E-mail:
claimsdeptoffice_scott@yahoo.co.uk
TEL: +44-704-010-3133
To facilitate the claims of your winnings, you are advised to provide
the claims officer assigned to you with the following details for
processing the payment of your winnings:
Name:
Address:
Occupation:
Nationality:
Age:
Tel:
Fax:
Ref Number:
Amount Won:
Once again congratulations from all our staff on your promotional prize
winning
Patricia Riley (Mrs.)
Coordinator; Powerball E-Games Promotions
Second scam email
-------------- Forwarded Message: --------------
From: SCOTT MICHEAL <
claimsdeptoffice_scott@yahoo.co.uk >
Subject: Prize Award Information
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:23:26 +0000
Dear Kim
Having reviewed the email which you sent me along with it
attached contents from the Coordinator of the Powerball E-Games
Promotions, it might interest you to know that you are a true and
certified winner in the Powerball E-Games Promotions.
Having done all the
proper verification exercise from our department, we found you worthy of
the cash prize in the E-GAMES PROMOTIONAL PROGRAM. Your email address
has been confirmed as a winning entry with your claims filed under
reference numbers PB/EGP/60961/OV.
CONGRATULATIONS.
All the email entires for this program were provided by our
affliliate adware support companies and the suprise you expressed on
your emergence as a winner is understandable considering the fact your
email was probably entered into this contest without your knowledge, and
we sincerely apologize if this announcement came to you as a rude shock.
This office has been handed with specific instructions that we
shall be handling the claims and release of your Prize Award of Two
million, seven hundred and fourteen thousand British pounds sterling
allocated to your email address.
Your winnings have been credited to a suspense account with our
paying bank registered with the European Gaming Commission. This is in
compliance with the "Lottery/Casino Procedural Manual" of the gaming
prize funds disbursement act regulating Gaming activities in EU
countries. In line with these statutory regulations, your winnings has
been insured under a bonded depository policy to its full value, as such
you shall be the payment of your winnings in full.
To have your winnings paid to you by bank to bank transfer, you
would be advised to activate a Non-Residential Transactional account
with our paying bank, which would affect the transfer of your prize
winnings to your bank account. Upon activating the transactional account
with the paying bank, your winnings would be released from the suspense
account and paid into the operational account to be setup in your name
which would make it suitable for you to transfer to your designated
account(s).
Our insistence on all prize award winners opening an account
with the paying bank is not binding, but has its obvious advantages. The
other payment options would be for you to come down to the payment
remittance office in Amsterdam to personally receive payment for your
Winnings.
To proceed with your Claims, please inform me on your payment
preference.
Once again I wish to congratulate you on behalf of the entire
Claims Department of the Powerball E-Games Lottery Promotions UK.
Mr. Scott Micheal
Claims Rep.
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This email and its attachments are confidential and intended for the
exclusive use of the addressee(s).This email and its attachments may
also be privileged or protected by legal rules. If you have received
this by mistake please let us know by reply immediately and destroy the
email and its attachments without reading, copying or forwarding the
contents.
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