Lotto Scam. Recieved fake winning email letter stating I won a contest I did not enter.
I Did not reply because I realised it was a identity theft scam.
Warning to others.
Example email I got for you to watch out for:
Attn Lucky Winner,
NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "Hot Ball: 15" WINNER ONLY Date: Sat Jan 6
'2007
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final draw of our Lottery International Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000, 000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No
tickets were sold.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category "Hot Ball: 15" with the following numbers attached Ref Number: PW 9590 ES 9414, Batch Number: 573881545-NL and
Ticket draw Number: 7,11, 19,33, 36, You are therefore to receive a cash prize of $19.09 Million (Nineteen Million Nine Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured
with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category "Hot Ball: 15" winners with the information below:
Name: Matthew Chuck
Email: (I left blank)
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Country:
State:
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 4 days, thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all
lotto information confidential, especially your reference and ticket numbers.
Walter Morgan.
Lottery Coordinator.
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