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Sweepstakes Scams: Euro Million Lottery Sweepstakes - Experimental Bonanza

Sweepstakes Scam Email:
Euro Million Lottery Sweepstakes - Experimental Bonanza
"David Jose", "Mrs.Eva Pedro"

Have you received an email from "David Jose" at "Euro Million Lottery Sweepstakes - Experimental Bonanza" telling you that "your email address won in the second category" or something similar, and to contact "Mrs.Eva Pedro" to collect your winnings? It is a scam. No legitimate, legal lottery notifies winners vian email (see footnote) The scammers may change the names and details, but it is still a scam!

Below is another example of a fake lottery; this email claims to be from the "Euro Million Lottery Sweepstakes - Experimental Bonanza".  

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.

  • 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. 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 its own email, its own domain and website? They've got £500,000.00 to give away randomly to you, but they can't afford to buy their own email address / domain for £5.00? Can you say "obvious scam alert"?

  • Keep Confidential - Real sweepstakes and lotteries THRIVE on publicity - they don't want you to keep anything secret - the publicity causes people to enter or buy more of their products. 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!"

  • Require the winner to pay - U.S. federal law prohibits sweepstakes from charging you for anything, not "delivery", couriers, taxes, fees, handling charges, or anything else!

Here is a typical scam sweepstakes winning notification. 


Actual scam email (One example - the scammers constantly change names, dates and addresses!):

Van: NEW YEAR PROMOTION [mailto: vijfeijken@home.nl ]

Verzonden: maandag 7 januari 2008 20:45

Onderwerp: Batch No:901/00319/HLP

The Euro Million Lottery Sweepstakes,
PO Box 42 Peterborough
PE3 8XH
UNITED KINGDOM

 

Ref No: MELI-T/ 17-F044262312

Batch No:901/00319/HLP

Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-003

Grand Draw No: 12099

 

                              WINNING NOTIFICATION

 

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today  of your  selection as one of the five winners of the  Xmas promotion Programme held recently as part of our EXPERIMENTAL BONANZA

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of  (£500.000.00(G.B.P). the value of the amount comes to ($917,956.00 USD) Nine Hundred and Seventeen thousand, Nine hundred and fifty-six United  States  Dollars. 

We in the Euro Million Lottery Sweepstakes is by this program,Launching our model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to  satisfy the cravings of the ever-growing number of participants in our  various lottery programs. With funds accrued exclusively from previous  draws, payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred  in  record time.

After randomly selecting 15,000 participants from an initial database  of 300,000 emails all participants were selected through a computer  ballot system from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe, USA  and  South America as part our International Promotions Program, which was  conducted in view of launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes Industry

  Worldwide and zoning all participants by their respective continents from  across the globe, we produced an extensive list from which you have emerged as one of the winners of the Grand Draw In other to claim your  £500,000.00  prize, you will have to fill the form below and send it  back  to us for verification and then you will be inform on how your  Cashier's Check for £500,000.00 has already been deposited with your  email  contact. 

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM 

1.FULL NAMES:__________________________________

2.ADDRESS:_____________________________________________

3.SEX:_______________

4.AGE:________

5.MARITAL STATUS:___________________ 

6.OCCUPATION:________________________ 

7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________ 

8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________ 

9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________ 

10.AMOUNT WON:___________________________________

11. COUNTRY________________________________ 

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent Mrs.Eva Pedro

Email:  evapedro300@gmail.com 

Please you are adviced to complete the form and send back to us for  prompt collection. You are automatically disqualified if you are below 18 years of age. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the  winners will result to disqualification. This E-mail message (including attachments, if any)is intended for the use of the individual or entity  to which it is addressed and may contain Information that is privileged, proprietary, confidential and exempted from disclosure. If you are not  the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly  prohibited. 

Sincerely,

David Jose


Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery 

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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 not be questioning it.