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Lottery Scam Email:
Premier Lottery International
"Mrs. Asha Renard", "Michael May (Payment Disbursement Contractor)"
Have you received an email from "Mrs. Asha Renard" at "Premier Lottery International" telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "Michael May (Payment Disbursement Contractor)" to collect your winnings? It is a
scam. No legitimate, legal lottery notifies winners via email (see footnote)! The scammers may
change the names and details, but it is still a scam!
Below is the example of the fake lottery scam claiming to
be from the "Premier Lottery International".
Although the most important clue is that no legitimate
lottery will ever email a winner, there are many other signs that this is a fraud.
We have
highlighted some of these in the email below, not the least
of which are:
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Email address ballot: There is no such thing as a
"computer ballot system" or "computer email draw". No one, not even
Microsoft has a database of email addresses of the type or magnitude they
suggest.
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"No tickets were sold": You care to explain where the
money comes from? Perhaps the lottery money fairy? Why would a lottery
give away money to "email address randomly selected by a computer ballot
draw system"? This is CLEARLY nonsense: you MUST, repeat MUST buy a
ticket to have a chance of winning any lottery!
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Terrible spelling, punctuation, syntax and grammar - Scammers
apparently don't know how to use spell checkers. We assume they
dropped out of school before that class. They use almost excessive and random CapItaLiZAtion.
Names are usually in all capital letters for some reason known only to these
illiterate criminals. They often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to
be "22nd". These scammers usually write at the 3rd grade level.
Being non-native English speakers, they also often get first names and
surnames (last names reversed), so you will frequently see names like "Mr.
SMITH JAMES.", instead of "Mr. James Smith", along with the peculiar usage
of periods (full stops) and spaces or the lack thereof. Real lotteries also proofread their emails
and look and read more professional.
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Using free email account: The scammer is writing to
you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, AIM, Gmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization
would use it's own email, it's own domain and website?
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Keep Confidential - Real lotteries THRIVE on
publicity - they don't want you to keep anything secret - the publicity
causes people to buy more tickets. there is NO risk of "double claiming"
because they can validate where the ticket numbers were sold. The scammer
want you to keep quiet because they don't want the police or
ConsumerFraudreporting to hear about them! It should read: "For our own security, you
are advised to keep your winning information confidential until we have
finished scamming you!"
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Email notification: NO REAL LOTTERY SENDS AN EMAIL TO
NOTIFY WINNERS. Period. Full-stop. End of story. There mere fact
ALONE that you received an email saying you won a lottery is proof that it
is a scam.
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Actual scam email (One example - the scammers constantly change
names, dates and addresses!):
From: UK National Lottery [
onlineservices@nationallottery.net ]
Subject: Winning Notification; You Won!!!
Ref: DMSL881OYI/09
Batch: 089/05/JH369
Winning Notification.
We happily announce to you the draw of the Premier
Lottery International programs held on the 28th of January, 2008.
Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number: 8937423037894 094 with Serial number 5749/83
drew the lucky numbers: 26, 15, 34, 53, 36, 47, Bonus (39) which subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to
claim a total sum of $1,300,000.00 (One million three hundred thousand United
States Dollars) in cash.
This year Lottery Program Jackpot is the largest ever
for Premier Lottery and Promotional Lottery. The estimated $113 million jackpot
would be the sixth-biggest in Premier Lottery history. The biggest was the $285
million jackpot that went to nine winners in December 2000 drawing of The Big
Game Mega Millions predecessor. Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our African Regional booklet representative office in Africa as indicated
in our play coupon. In view of this, your $1,300,000.00 would be released to you
physically by our affiliate bank. Our agent/disbursement contractor will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you
as soon as you make contact with him.
All participants were selected randomly from 'World Wide
Web' site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000
companies.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your
winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money
remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is a
part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.
To claim your prize, please contact our African Regional
Disbursement agent in Africa were your claims fall within with the below details
for processing of your claims.
NAME: Michael May (Payment Disbursement Contractor)
Phone: +(234)-1-765-6171 or 011-(234)-1-765-6171
Email:
maymichael@web2mail.com
You are to contact the claims agent with your full
names, address, telephone numbers and batch number.
Note that all claims process and clearance procedures
must be duly completed early to avoid impersonation arising to the issue of
double claim and ensure you forward your details of winning to the African Agent
via his email because if you reply directly you may not get a response
maymichael@web2mail.com To avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our
designated agent.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of
this program.
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Asha Renard
(Lottery Coordinator)
Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery
Click here for the huge list of the names of the currently identified lottery
scams companies
* Re: emails of winnings. We know of only ONE exception in the world to this rule
- and if you bought a ticket from them, you would know it, and would used their
safegaurds.
* Re: emails of winnings. We know of only ONE exception in the world to this rule
- and if you bought a ticket from them, you would know it, and would not be
questioning it.
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