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Sample Lottery Scam Email: Electronic Lottery Programs

Sample Lottery Scam Email:
E le ctronic Lottery Programs

"Electronic Lottery Programs" just sent you an email, saying you won hundreds of thousands of "Great British Pounds"? We have one bit of advice: don't quick your job just yet.  It is a scam.

They have a great gibberlish line about "no ticket were sold" (you've got to admire their lack of grammar). But, there's no such thing as a FREE lotto or lottery.  Think about it!  Where would their money to give away come from and why? There are many other signs that this is a fraud, not the least of which is that no legitimate lottery uses email to notify its winners!

And a legitimate lottery certainly would not use free hotmail, yahoo, elitist, or aim email accounts. Especially a free account from Hong Kong.  If that isn't a clue that this is a fake, perhaps you are Anna Nicole Smith's long lost son or daughter... Certainly not Albert Einstein's.

In addition to the usual clues, notice the gibberish writing, excessive/incorrect use of CAPITAL letters, lack of decent punctuation..  The sentences don't even make sense.  Hardly what a professional (i.e., real) lottery would do. Note the other clues to an obvious fraud that we have highlighted in the letter; keep confidential, selected by a random computer lottery of email addresses, use of free email accounts, etc.

Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification. 

• Master list of sample lottery scam emails

• How to recognize a lottery scam

• What to do if you think you have been the victim of a lottery scam

• How the lottery / sweepstakes scams work

 Also see this page for a sample in the UK .

Dear Sir/Ma .

Top of days greetings to you .Finally today, we announce that you are one of the winners of the ELECTRONIC LOTTERY PROGRAMS . held on 31st December,2006. Your company and your personal e-mail addresses, attached to ticket number: 7-1-8-36-4-22 under agent ID: 18 and lucky ball number 7363789,which consequently won in the Tenth lottery category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 860,641.28 Great British Pounds(GBP) which amounts to $1,500,000.00 (One Million,Five Hundred Thousand United States DOLLARS).

The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet . No ticket were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

Mr.David Nelson

TEL:+44-701-113-2446 EMAIL: european_lotterycompany03 @yahoo.com.hk

FILL THE FORM BELOW WITH YOUR DATAS

1.Full Name:____________________
2.Address:______________________
3.Nationality:____________________
4.Age:______________________________
5.Occupation:____________________
6.Phone:________________________
7.State of Origin:_________________
8.Country:______________________

Sincerely,

Mrs Owen Becky

Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery 

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