Lottery Scam Email:
SWISS-LOTTO ENGLANDS or SWISS-LOTTO INTERNATIONAL
"Mr Silva Morelli or Leonard Scott", "Sandra West"
Have you received an email from "Mr Silva Morelli or Leonard Scott" at "Swiss Lotto
Netherlands" telling you
"CONGRATULATIONS!!!.....YOU HAVE WON 750.000.00 Pounds"
and that "your
email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to
contact "Sandra West" to collect your winnings?
And they reassure you with the following statement:
"Fill the form, every thing about is legal and real, beside
all we are doing here is being watched and governed by the British Governing
Council"
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 "Swiss Lottery Organizations".
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:
-
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.
-
"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!
-
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.
-
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?
-
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!"
-
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: SWISS LOTTO ENGLAND
<mr-silvamorelli@live.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:39 AM
Subject: NOTIFICATION FROM SWISS-LOTTO
SWISS-LOTTO
INTERNATIONAL
3 Upper Dean Street,
Birmingham, England,
B5 4SG.United Kingdom.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!.....YOU HAVE WON 750.000.00 Pounds
Attn:
_____________________
,
We
are pleased to inform you that your request has been approved by the financial
advisory board regarding your option.
NOTE. Your original WINNING CERFITICATE will be posted along with your cheque
through the courier service.
You
are required to pay the COURIER CHARGES and the necessary charges before your
winning cheque can deliver to you by the courier company to your home address
stated in our central computer system provided by you as the award winner. If
you know that the address is not reliable for you please send an email with the
right address and with the attachment of the payment slip for the DHL COURIER
CHARGES.
You
are required to follow instructions you are to use this courier company for the
shipping of your winning cheque to you via DHL Courier.
DHL
(3 working days)
Government Administrative Tax: £ 150
DHL
Delivery Fees: £ 100
TOTAL: £ 250
You
are to make the above payment via Western Union Money Transfer in the name of
our accountant officer below.
Western Union Money
Transfer Agent is situated in all states, country and province around the globe
and renders services of transferring money World Wide fast and convenient method
of money transfer. NOTE: You are to make the payment to the informant below:
RECEIVER FISRT NAME: Sandra
LAST NAME: West
ADDRESS: #19 ST. Johns Gate Edinburgh C3V 9DS.
COUNTRY: UNITED KINGDOM
A
scan copy of Sandra West working I.D is been included to this email.
REQUIREMENT:
1.
Please note that this is the standard procedure for all international winners of
the SWISS-LOTTO and endeavor to make available via this email the scanned copy
of the western union payment slip or the following details for official
references.
Senders Name
Sender's Address
Money transfer control number (MTCN).
Note: that your winning prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy,
which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from your winning prize before
remittance will be made to you. This means that the above charges cannot be
deducted from your winning prize and hence must be provided by you before your
prize is transferred to you. This is in accordance with section 13(1) (n) of the
national gambling act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996 by the
constitutional assembly.
This
is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds. Send your response
of your opinion within the next 48hrs, because you only have 6 days to claim
this cheque and after this period, your cash prize will be deemed to have been
forfeited by you and will be reused in the drawings of the next edition of the
lotto.
NOTE: You are advice to keep your winning details confidential to yourself and
strictly from public notice in order to avoid double claims.
Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of our
promotions program. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners
will result to disqualification.
Sincerely,
Mr
Silva Morelli.
Tel: +44 702 405 8502
SWISS-LOTTO
INTERNATIONAL
3 Upper Dean Street,
Birmingham, England,
B5 4SG.United Kingdom.
Version 2
From:
deskofsilvamorelli2009@live.com
Subject: NOTIFICATION FROM SWISS-LOTTO
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:22:31 +0000
SWISS-LOTTO
ENGLANDS
38
UPPER DEAN STREET,
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, B54SG.
UNITED KINGDOM
Attn:
_____________________
We are pleased to
inform you that your request has been approved by the financial advisory board
regarding your option, NOTE. that your original WINNING CERFITICATE will be
posted along with your cheque through the courier service.
Note that this office
is going on chrismas holiday on the 18th december 2009 and you are advise to
make your claim before this date to avoid forfeiture of your winning funds, you
are to provide your valid id for proper identification to the DHL courier agent.
You are required to pay
the COURIER CHARGES and the necessary charges before your winning cheque can be
delivered to you by the courier company to your home address stated in our
central computer system provided by you as the award winner. If you know that
the address is not reliable for you please send an email or fax with the right
address and with the attachment of the payment slip for the DHL COURIER CHARGES.
You are required to
follow instructions. you are to use this courier company for the shipping of
your winning cheque to you via DHL Courier.
DHL (3 working days)
Government
Administrative Tax: £150
DHL Delivery Fees: £100
TOTAL: £250
You are to make the
above payment via Western Union Money Transfer in the name of our accountant
officer below.
Western Union Money
Transfer Agent is situated in all states, country and province around the globe
and renders services of transferring money World Wide fast and convenient method
of money transfer. NOTE: You are to make the payment to the informant below:
RECEIVER FIRST NAME:
Sandra
LAST NAME: West
ADDRESS: 38 UPPER DEAN
STREET, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, B54SG.
COUNTRY: UNITED
KINGDOM
A scan copy of
Sandra West working I.D
is been included to this email.
REQUIREMENT:
1. Please note that
this is the standard procedure for all international winners of the SWISS-LOTTO
and endeavor to make available via this email the scanned copy of the western
union payment slip or the following details for official references.
Senders Name
Sender's Address
Money transfer control
number (MTCN).
Note: that your winning
prize is protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to
deduct any amount from your winning prize before remittance will be made to you.
This means that the above charges cannot be deducted from your winning prize and
hence must be provided by you before your prize is transferred to you. This is
in accordance with section 13(1) (n) of the national gambling act as adopted in
1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996 by the constitutional assembly.
This is to protect
winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds. Send your response of your
opinion within the next 48hrs, because you only have 6 days to claim this cheque
and after this period, your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by
you and will be reused in the drawings of the next edition of the lotto.
NOTE: You are advice to
keep your winning details confidential to yourself and strictly from public
notice in order to avoid double claims.
Congratulations again
from all our staffs and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Any
breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification.
Sincerely,
Leonard Scott
Tel: +44 702 405 8508
+44 702 405 8508
Fax : + 44-700-593-8323
SWISS-LOTTO
ENGLANDS
38
UPPER DEAN STREET,
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, B54SG.
UNITED KINGDOM
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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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