Fake Winning Lottery

Becarefull with a Winning Lottery e mail send to you by someone. That e mail tells You Have Won $1 Million US Dollars. If you got e mail like thi, don’t easily believe it. Read the e mail below for an example. I have marked red the text, which is suspicious.

For example:

YOU HAVE WON $1 MILLION US DOLLARS

Ref: 435062725

Batch: 7050470902/189

Winning no: GB8101/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear, 

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which

Was released on the 22nd February 2008, from the

Australian International Lottery programmer, which is

Fully based on an electronic selection of winners

Using their e-mail addresses from some sites. Your

Email address was attached to ticket number; 47001725

07056490102 and serial number 7741134002. This batch

Draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and

Bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in

The second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of

US$1,000000.00 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS) in cash

Credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/09 from the total cash

Prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this

Category. All participants were selected through a

Computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred

Thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia,

United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and

Oceania as part of our international promotion program

Which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted

And sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational

Companies as part of their social responsibility to

The citizens in the communities where they have an

Operational base. Furthermore, your details (e-mail

Address) falls within our European representative

Office in Amsterdam, Holland as indicated in your play

Coupon and your prize of US$1,000000,000.00 will be

Released to you from this regional branch office in

NIGERIA. We hope that with part of your prize, you

Will participate in our end of year high stakes for

US$1.5 Billion international draw. To file for your

Claim; please contact our director of finance.

Name  :XXXXXXXX

E-mail:XXXXXX@yahoo.co.uk

Tell  :XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number

Which can be found on the top left corner of this

Notification as well as your full name, address and

Telephone number to help locate your file easily.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep

This information confidential from the public until

Your claim is processed and your prize released to

You.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double

Claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this

Programmer by non-participants or unofficial

Personnel.

Note: All winnings MUST be claimed before the 29th of

February 2008; otherwise all funds will be returned

as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity

organizations.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.XXXXX

Coordinator,

Australian Lottery Inc.

NOTE:Do not reply to me,rather you are to contact

Mrs.XXXXXXX

Second e mail after reply their email above

Dear,

A copy of the Winners Claimant Form has been forwarded

to you. Follow the steps to carry on with your claim:

1) Print out an ENLARGED copy of the Claimant form.

2) Carefully read through it and Fill out Sections A&B

3) Scan the completed form and send it back to us as

an attached file,through this same email address

Immediately.

This form is to enable us have comprehensive

information about you and also, how the prize you have

won will get to you.

As soon as we receive this form back from you, we will

then refer you to our authorized paying bank for

onwards transfer of your prize.

Why you must suspicious with that e mail?

1. You don’t buy any ticket lottery
2. See the text that I have marked red
3. If you really won that much of money, it will be reported on the news.
4. They ussualy claim as an agent

If you got e mail like above or similar with that:

1. Don’t reply their e mail or just ignore it, otherwise they will send you more e mail because they will know that your e mail is still active.

2. To claim your winning notification as form above, don’t give your ID because they can use your ID and use it to fraud another person.

3. Don’t give your Bank account no and your signature, otherwise they will take your money with your signature.

For more details see the sites below and report to them ( these sites), so you can help another for not being their victim. This is a serious thing and they need to be catch.

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotterysamples10.php

http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/known-lottery-scams-a-e/a-ehttp://www.fraudaid.com/ScamSpam/Lottery/lottery_scam_names.htm

http://www.joewein.net/419/emails/2005-10/02/335799.2.htm

http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Nigerian/lottery_names.htm

http://419.bittenus.com/winnings/australia.htm

http://www.hotscams.com/articles/172/1/US1million-Winnings---Wines-International-Lotto/Page1.html