Lottery Scam Email:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL VISA LOTTERY
"Mrs. Dola Anderson", "Rev. Dr. Paul Mayer"
Have you received an email from "Mrs. Dola Anderson" at "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL VISA LOTTERY" telling you that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "Rev. Dr. Paul Mayer" to collect your winnings? This is rellay
a pathetic scam, as it truly makes no sense.
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The United States does NOT have a monetary lottery.
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The "lottery" for VISAs is actually called the "Diversity
Lottery" and does not award money.
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United States agencies and government programs are not
incorporated "Inc".
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The U.S. government would not write to anyone from ANY email
address other than one that ends in ".gov"
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What would a religious minister, with a PhD, "Rev. Dr. Paul"
be doing working for the government in a lottery program. The mind
boggles at the obvious contradictions.
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Look at the 3rd grade writing in the email, the grammatical
errors, misspellings, made-up words, strange use of capital letters, etc.
(Ahem: "i before e, except after c....").
It is a
scam. No legitimate, legal lottery notifies winners via email (see footnote)! The scammers may
change the names and details used in the scam, but it is still a scam!
Below is the example of the fake email scam (the email is the scam, not any persons or companies named in the email) claiming to
be from the "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL VISA LOTTERY".
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.
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Actual scam email (One example - the scammers constantly change
names, dates and addresses!):
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:19:18 -0300
From: "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL VISA
LOTTERY INC" < usltyboard@live.com
>
Subject: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL VISA
LOTTERY YOU HAVE WON
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DEPARTMENT OF STATE BUREAU OF
CONSULAR AFFAIRS
Date:04/04/2008
Ref 575061725
Batch: 8056490902/188
Winning no: KB8701/LPRC
Dear Sir/Madam,
CONGRATULATION!!!
We are delighted to inform you of your winning on the
4th of April 2008 draw from the United States of America International Lottery Programme which is partially
based on an electronic selection of winners using
their e-mail addresses held in Washington, USA.
Your e-mail address was attached to ticket number;
575061725 8056490902 serial number 6741137002 .This batch draws the lucky
numbers as follows: 4-13-33-37-
42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery
in the second category.
All participants were selected through a
computer
balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,
Australia, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa as part of our international
promotions program which is conducted annually.
This Lottery was promoted and
sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational
base and this makes you the proud owner and
you are entitled to a huge lump of
$450,000.00 US dollars as our star winner of this year.
HOW TO FILE YOUR CLAIM: Simply contact our
EUROPEAN and
ASIAN Fiducial Agent, Rev. Dr. Paul Mayer at
revdrpaulmayer@usa.com and
revdrpaul.gov@latinmail.com to file for your claim or call his number on +44
7031828238
Please quote your Date of draw, Reference Number, Batch
Number and Winning Number, which can be found on the top-left corner of this
message.
Also, you should give in your telephone number to help
locate your file easily. For security reasons,
we advice the winner to
keep this
information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and been
released to you.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming
and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or
unofficial personnel.
Note: all winnings MUST be claimed by the 9th of April.
2008; otherwise the fund will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity.
Congratulations once again on your winning!
Best Regards.
Mrs. Dola Anderson
(For the co-ordinator).
Copyright © 1968-2008 United States of America lottery
inc All rights reserved
WARNING!
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ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK
OR ADDRESS SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO THIS BOX IMMEDIATELY, THIS WILL HELP US TO
FIGHT SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION.
OR SENT TO THIS The International Criminal Police Organization (International
Crime Division) FRAUD ALERT EMAIL:
scam_interpoloffice@sfax.ws
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* 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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