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Sample Promotion Prize Scam Email:
Presidential Library & Museum
Attention: Dear Prominent User Of
The Internet
"Mrs. Deborah L. Spencer", "Mr. Thomas Hegland"
Have you received an email from "Mrs. Deborah L. Spencer" at "Presidential Library & Museum" saying you won
"$1,000,000.00 Million United States Of America Dollars" just because... you use
the internet! Just contact "Mr. Thomas Hegland" to collect your winnings?
If we hear of ONE person who actually believes that this is
legitimate, then humanity has no hope. The "stupidity gene" must have
replicated.
It is a scam. A truly absurd scam.
They claim you won a
promotion, which is giving away millions of dollars based on a randomly selected
email address. The scam is obvious: it's simply preposterous to think that
any company would give money away randomly to encourage you to buy their product. That would be
pointless and self-defeating.
Although the most important clue is that no legitimate lottery,
and almost no legitimate sweepstakes or promotions will 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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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.
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.
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Using free email account: The scammer is writing to
you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization
would use its own email, its own domain and website? Wouldn't they want to
promote that?
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Keep Confidential - Real promotions THRIVE on
publicity: that's the purpose of them! They don't want you to keep anything secret - the publicity
causes people to buy their product. 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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What are they promoting? No one promotes "world
peace" or "use of the internet" by handing out millions to random strangers.
And if they are promoting a product or
a lottery, then
this must be the world's worst promotion, because no one has heard of it,
outside of the email you just received. Just giving away money to
random people who have an email address wouldn't promote a darn thing! It is
a scam!
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Pay a fee to collect the prize: Nope, it is illegal
for free sweepstakes and promotions to charge you ANYTHING! Of course, in a
scam, that is the whole point: to get you to send money to the scammer.
It is a typical scam promotion sweepstakes winning notification. Also
see these pages:
Sample scam email
From: lenaspencer <lenaspencer@netcabo.pt>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:31:40 AM
Subject: Attention: Dear Prominent User Of The Internet
Attention: Dear Prominent User Of
The Internet
How are you today? Hope all is well with you and your family?
I hope this mail meets you in a
perfect condition. This is from a total cash prize of US 50,000,000
Million dollars, given to the first FIFTY (50) people who will be
compensated in this world internet programs.Allparticipants
were selected randomly from World Wide Web
site Through computer draw system and extracted from over 700.000
companies I am using this opportunity to thank you for using the internet
daily.
Due to your effort, using internet
programs indoor and in your office,We want to compensate you and show our
gratitude to you with the sum of
$1,000,000.00 Million United States Of America Dollars we have
authorized Mr. Thomas Hegland to assist your in getting your compensation
check
across to you.The name and contact address of the Mr. Thomas Hegland is as
follows;
COMPENSATION HEAD OFFICE
CONTACT AGENT: Mr. Thomas Hegland
EMAIL:
claimsagent_hegland02@yahoo.fr
Finally remember that I have forwarded instruction to Mr. Thomas Hegland on
your behalf to send the cash prize of One Million United State Of
America Dollars to you as soon as you contact him without delay .
Mrs. Deborah L. Spencer
Presidential Library & Museum
Former Director International Online
Lottery Co-coordinator. © 2008 WORLD
INTERNET PROGRAMS®
Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery
Click here for the huge list of the names of the currently identified lottery
scams companies
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