Winning Lottery Notification

[Unregistered]

I received an email 'FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER, MR. ADAM KARABO. EUROPEAN/UK/S.A. UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS BID SOUTH AFRICA 1020 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD DEPARTMENT.UNITED KINGDOM/SOUTH AFRICA". It stated I won $700,000 Pounds from the total cash prize of 22,000,000 shared among thirty five lucky winner. It states the lottery program took place to promote South Africans 2010 world cup award. Contact Name; Dr. Frank Jerry Claim Agent. Is this a known scam?

[Arrowhead]

If you didn't pay money to enter this lottery, it most certainly is a scam.

Here are the hallmarks of a lottery scam:

You never paid money or bought a ticket to enter.
Your "winning" notification is probably not personalized.
Your "winning" notification came by email, probably from a free email address such as yahoo.com or msn.com.

The way this scam works is, if you respond to the email, after one or two email exchanges with the so-called "lottery officials" or "claims agent," perhaps accompianied by some official looking but fake documents, you will be asked to pay fees for "taxes" or "handling" or some other reason. This is the scam, you pay the fees and never see any winnings, mainly because there are none to see.

This is a common advance fee fraud. There are many example of these here on our website.

Thanks for visiting www.fraudwatchers.org (http://www.fraudwatchers.org). Please make yourself at home, look around, and tell your friends and relatives about our site. Through education, we can prevent people from getting defrauded by these scams.

[FW Admin]

Hello and welcome to Fraudwatchers. Without seeing the email that you received, I can say that it is indeed a well known scam, and this with a number of variations on the same theme have been emailed to millions of target recipients all over the world.

There are a number of factors that would point to this being a scam; firstly, there are no legitimate lottery organisations operating a "win by email" procedure. Any lottery, by its very definition, needs to have tickets purchased in order to produce the funds by which the winners are paid.

You will also have seen the email address from whom the email was sent, and also no doubt, if you read through the email, it will give you the email address of whomever is allegedly responsible. You will find that they are "@yahoo.com" or "@hotmail.com" or any number of several free email providers on the internet, each of which can be registered totally anonymously. Lottery organisations never use free webmail provided accounts, they all have their own legitimate domain names that they use.

Finally, if you go to the official World Cup 2010 website you will see that they have warnings against these scams:

http://www.worldcup2010southafrica.com/content/view/241/92/

I hope your questions have been answered; please do not hesitate to post any further queries that you may have.

[Louie Michael Jasmin]

Dear Sir/Madam:

I have an e mail feb 21, 2006. That I won a Lottery based on Electronic Selection of winners using email addresses. Here's the contents of the letter. Please notify me for some development. my email address: <admin edit to remove email address>. Thank you!

From: "Promotions Manager" <claimsagent_uknl@hotmail.com> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: <admin edit to remove email address of recipient>
Subject: REF: UNL/26510460037/02
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:09:18 -0500




UKNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAME


FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER
UKNATIONAL E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
I Canary Warfstreet,
Canada Square,
London.E140 Uk

Date: 21/02/2006
Ref Number: UNL/26510460037/02
Batch Number: 24/00319/IPD
Ticket Number: 023-0148-790-459
CONGRATULATIONS
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the 20th of February, 2006 from the Uknational Lottery
programme. Which is fully based on an electronic
selection of winners using their e-mail
addresses.Your name was attached to ticket number;
023-0148-790-459 serial number 89413237112 This
batch draws the lucky numbers as follows
8-12-25-43-46-59,which consequently won
the lottery in the third category. You here by have
been approved a lump sum pay of £2,000,000.00 (TWO
MILLION POUNDS) in cash credit file ref number: UNL/
26510460037/02 from the total cash prize of
£20,000,000.00 shared amongst ten lucky winners
in this category. All participant 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
promotions program which is conducted annually. This
Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate
of some multinational companies as part of their
social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities
where they have operational base. Further more your
details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in London, as indicated in
your play coupon and your prize of £2,000,000.00
will be released to you from this regional branch
office in London. We hope with part of your prize,
you will participate in our end of year high stakes
for US$1.3 Billion international draw. HOW TO CLAIM
YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducial agent,Mr.
LARRY WILLIAMS through,claimsagent_uknl@hotmail.com
to file for your claim . 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 programme by non-participant or unofficial
personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by
16th of March, 2006; otherwise all funds will be
returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity .
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards Susan Brown(co-ordinator)
PLEASE DO REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT:claimsagent_uknl@hotmail.com ANY BREACH OF
RULES ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

sincerely

ALAN BROWN ESQ.(ATTORNEY)
ANDREW FURNESS (FINANCIAL DIRECTOR)
LARRY WILLIAMS. (FIDUCIAL AGENT)









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[George Dixon]

Dear Louie,

Yes you are right to be cautious, this is another 100% lottery scam. Anyone replying will be asked at some stage to send money for insurance or courier fees. The obvious question is why do they need the "winner" to pay out fees when there is a 2 million pound prize? They will come up with all sorts of excuses as to why. The outcome is always the same.....people send money, then see the prize and the fees disappear forever. :cry:

Tell all your friends to beware of these schemes Louie.

Regards
George

[Unregistered]

I reacieved an email as follows:

Dear Sir/Madam,
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release
on the 24th of February, 2006 from the Universal Lottery
programme. Which is fully based on an electronic
selection of winners using their e-mail
addresses.Your name was attached to ticket number;
564062826 8067492802 serial number 89413237112 This
batch draws the lucky numbers as follows
4-13-55-48-34bonus number 17,which consequently won
the lottery in the second category. You here by have
been approved a lump sum pay of US$1,000,000.00 (ONE
MILLIONDOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW
47509/02 from the total cash prize of
US$8,000,000.00 shared amongst eight lucky winners
in this category. All participant 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
promotions program which is conducted annually. This
Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate
of some multinational companies as part of their
social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities
where they have operational base. Further more your
details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in London, as indicated in
your play coupon and your prize of US$1,000,000.00
will be released to you from this regional branch
office in London. We hope with part of your prize,
you will participate in our end of year high stakes
for US$1.3 Billion international draw. HOW TO CLAIM
YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducial agent,Mr.
MITCHEAL WALTER through,mitcheal12_walter@yahoo.com to
file for your claim . 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 programme by non-participant or unofficial
personnel. Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by
20th of March, 2006; otherwise all funds will be
returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to
charity .
Congratulations once again on your winnings!!!
Best Regards Carol Smith(co-ordinator)
PLEASE DO REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT:mitcheal12_walter@yahoo.com ANY BREACH OF
RULES ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION.

sincerely

SEAN JACKSON ESQ.(ATTORNEY)
ONYEAGBA ANTHONY (FINANCIAL DIRECTOR)
MITCHEAL WALTER. (FIDUCIAL AGENT)

[Nyla]

Pardon me for repeating myself from the other thread, but thought I had better, just to be safe.

Hello,

Welcome to Fraudwatchers. The letter you posted is a typical lottery scam format. The lottery is a fraud.

Looking for the Lottery name, "Universal Lottery Programme", on Google turns up several copies of the same letter, labelled as a known scam. The other red flags are

1)The lottery claims to draw winners from a pool of email addresses. No legitimate lottery draws winners this way. You must actively enter a lottery to win, typically by buying a ticket. The jackpots real lotteries award have to come from somewhere.

2) The "companies" supposedly sponsoring this lottery are not named. This prevents you from contacting them to confirm their involvement.

3) The lottery claim agent has a free Yahoo address. No legitimate lottery uses a free email address as a business contact address.

4) Lots of emphasis on charity. The lottery claims that the companies are sponsoring due to social responsibility, and say unclaimed winnings go to charity. Lotteries tend to be very much a "for profit" business.

5) They urge you to keep it secret. They don't want anyone warning you it sounds like a fraud, actually.

6) There is a short time frame for claiming. They hope to pressure you into acting quickly, without thinking it through.

7) Finally, they're asking for money. This practice of asking for an "advance fee" in order to claim a lottery or sweepstakes win, is illegal in the United States, the United Kingdom, and for that matter, most countries. You can be sure that if a company in the U.S. or U.K. ask for a "claim fee", "taxes", or a "processing fee", they are either breaking the law or more likely, scammers.

So, to sum up, the lottery is definitely not legitimate. If you pay the money, you'll only end up losing it. Thanks for visiting the site, and keep safe.