Thursday, January 1, 2009

WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY, "Scam"


Here is another e-mail scam that is really link to Central Bank of Nigeria scam!
Look in this fraud letter to see the scam fraud.

The fraud letter
WORLD CUP 2010
FREE LOTTERY,HEADQUARTER,
UNITED KINGDOM.
Winning NO: XB3/701/
LNRC Batch NO: 905534213/255
Ref NO: 7458222754

Dear Lucky Winner, We are pleased to announce your email address as one of the 200 lucky winners in the Free Lotto draw held on the 30th December2008. All 200 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 100,000,000{ONE HUNDRED MILLION} international emails addresses. Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total payout of GBP �900, 000 (NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS)

Only your email address emerged along side with 199 others as a category of winner in this year's Annual Draw.The world cup lottery 2010 is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, Coca Cola, Nokia, MTN, the Intel Group, Toyota,Toshiba. The world cup free lottery draw is held once in every four years interval. And is also organized to encourage the use of internet and computers. We are proud to say that over GBP �25 Million Pounds are won annually in more than 150 countries world-wide. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until you claim your prize money.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned. Fill the form below to enable us process you winning prize,
NAME ADDRESS.
PHONE NO.
OCCUPATION.:
AGE..: SEX.
COUNTRY.
MODE OF CLAIM: DIRECT BANK TRANSFER OR COURIER DELIVERY(SELECT ONE
OPTION)NAME; MR. SOLOMON MARK.EMAIL;worldcuppromoaward@yahoo.com.hk Sincerely,Mrs. Linda Hull Promotions Manager,Congratulations once again.
End of letter

One: Notice only contact is an email yahoo.com " when real or at less some what believable .com Where is the headquarters .com ( company will have .com) not yahoo.com email only

Two: look in letter again I highlighted funny parts

Three: No phone number

OK did you know some had fail victim, only to ended up paying 275 dollars for their mail carrier to send so-cal money.(don't be fooled) which was never received.