Lottery Emails

Some people are around us ready to cheat and swallow our hard earned money. We can come across them in buses, trains and in roads. Some of them are illiterates. Some of them are doing this due to poverty or unemployment. Heard of people doing this on larger scale that too highly educated people are involved in this ? If not, then you are very lucky that you have not come across such people.

In internet we have lot of people doing this kind of activity. One among them is Lottery in internet.

Lottery email means you will get email in the name of big companies like Yahoo or MSN or Microsoft stating that your email has been selected from 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 email addresses and request you to send your personal information to claim first prize which valued several billions.

These type of emails usually come at the time of month end or year end or on special occasions.

I have received plenty of emails like this stating that I have won first prize. If I calculate all the prize monies due to me, then I will be richer than Bill Gates.

Usually I ignore all these emails. In the middle, I used to reply them to take all the monies due to me on my behalf.

Till today, I have been receiving these type of emails. I append few emails for your reference.

On 15.02.2009

Dear Winner,

Your email address emerged winner in our online lottery
program.You have
won the sum of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO(500,000 £),All
the email
addresses legible for this award were subscribers from
Yahoo,Hotmail and
other email service providers worldwide. You are to
contact our
remittance agent with your winning number below

Winning Number: EPWL 11,17,18,26,31 /5 6

Contact:Barrister Martin Jones
FIDUCIARY AGENT, Payment and Release order
Email: martin_chamber22@live.com
Tel: +44-70457-76864

FILL WITH DETAILS
================================

[FULL NAME OF WINNER]..........................
[RESIDENT ADDRESS]...................
[COUNTRY/ REGION]....................
[DATE OF BIRTH]...../...../......... [SEX].......
[OCCUPATION]..............[TEL/FAX]................
[CURRENT EMAIL].....................

CONGRATULATIONS from me and all members of staff of Euro-PW Lottery.

Regards,
Jossy Choy.

On 16.0.2009

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incorporation
Baley House, Har ,Road Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom.

AWARD NOTIFICATION 2009

This is to inform you that you have won a prize
money of Five hundred
thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings
(£500,000.00) for the month of
FEBUARY 2009 Lottery promotion which is
organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY
INC & WINDOWS LIVE.

You are to contact the events manager on or
before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with
his/her Settlement Centre.

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number.......................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788

How ever you will have to fill and submit this
form to the events manager for verification & direction on how you can
claim your winning
fund.

1. Full name..............
2. Contact Address........
3. Age....................
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Sex....................
7. Next Of Kin............
8. Zip Code...............
9. Occupation.............
10. Company................
11.State:.................
12.Country................
13.Nationality............
14. Your Reference and Batch number at the
top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Moore Markland
Email:event_managers_moore@hotmail.com
Telephone Number:+44 70359 05693/+4470359 40400

Thank you and Accept my hearty
congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Gloria Bent
(Lottery Coordinator).

CONGRATULATION LUCKY WINNER

If you receive these type of emails first thing you have to do is to delete the same.

In Tambaram (Chennai, India) one fellow believed this kind of email and contact them for prize money. They asked him to send Rs.60,000/- ( 1$ = Rs.55 approx) for processing and cheque delivery purposes.

He sent the entire amount immediately. He did not receive any money from them.
He waited for a reasonable time and tried to contact them over phone.
He did not get any response. He contacted one of his friends in England and requested him to visit the address they have given at the time of collecting the money. His friend informed him that the address was wrong.

That fellow could not imagine these type of fraud and committed suicide last week.

This news I read from the local newspaper.

So, I decided to post a blog on these type of frauds.

Beware.