-Unless someone has bought a ticket, they cannot have won a prize. There are no such things as “email” draws or any other lottery where “no<\/p>\n
tickets were sold”. This is simply another invention by the scammer to make the victim believe that they have won.<\/p>\n
-The scammer will ask the victim to pay a fee before they can receive their prize. It is illegal for a real lottery to charge any sort of fee.<\/p>\n
It does not matter what they say this fee is for (courier charges, bank charges, various imaginary certificates \u2014 these are all made up by the<\/p>\n
scammer to get money out of their victim). All real lotteries subtract any fee and tax from the prize.<\/p>\n
-Scam lottery emails will nearly always come from free email accounts such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, Live, MSN, Gmail etc.<\/p>\n
I have received such notification as below.<\/p>\n
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\nFrom: YAHOO ONLINE DRAWS
\nSent: Thu, 4 November, 2010 8:49:16 AM
\nSubject: Yahoo\/Msn Lottery Incorporation<\/p>\n
Yahoo\/Msn Lottery Incorporation
\nPO Box 1010,Liverpool
\nL70 1NL,United Kingdom.
\n========================
\nRef Number: XYL \/26510460037\/05
\nBatch Number: 24\/00319\/IPD
\nWinning Number:YM\/09788<\/p>\n
INTERNET CORPORATION INC.
\nHOTMAIL, YAHOO, GMAIL and AOL ENDORSED. REGISTERS{DIVIDEND & CLAIM DEPT}EURO\/ASIA H.Q.<\/p>\n
PRO – Number: GWT – 62 – 41\/05 – JM
\nVTT – Number: HMC – 93\/2627 – 38<\/p>\n
INTERNET PROMOTION LUCKY DRAW<\/p>\n
Your Email Has Won $1,000,000:00 {One Million United states dollars} in cash credited to you. Congratulations!<\/p>\n
You are lucky to be one of the winner of this Yahoo & Internet Promotion email raffle draw program on this category held on the 24th of<\/p>\n
October 2010, that is being sponsored by Yahoo internet provider and other service providers like hot-mail, gmail etc including eminent<\/p>\n
personalities like the HM King Juan of Spain, Sultan of Brunei, Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and others.<\/p>\n
All participant emails were selected randomly from Internet websites for this draw via computer ballot system as part of international<\/p>\n
promotion to help spread the use of Internet and campaign against computer illiteracy worldwide.<\/p>\n
Your email address was entered as a dependent client on pro Number: GWT – 62 – 41\/05 – JM with serial Number: 2318 drew the lucky payment<\/p>\n
Numbers: 18-28-41-25-23-27. Thus your email address has won you the sum of $1,000,000:00 {ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY } in cash<\/p>\n
credited to you.<\/p>\n
Your payment number falls at Asia regional office in India; in this regard your prize will be released from India. Your prize is officially<\/p>\n
approved for payment through authorized payment center attributed to claim prize.<\/p>\n
Prizes were deposited with insurance bond policy to secure prize and identity of the winner due to variety of email names and addresses, we ask<\/p>\n
that procedure of payment should be kept top secret from public notice until after prize is processed and remitted to you in order to avoid<\/p>\n
complications during payment. This is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program<\/p>\n
by spammers.<\/p>\n
To claim prize, please file your true information stated below, send via email to authorize claim office payment manager { Dr. David Moyes }<\/p>\n
E-mail address {claims_098@hotmail.co.uk}<\/p>\n
Payment Manager: Dr. David Moyes
\nEmail: claims_098@hotmail.co.uk
\nYahoo Claims Office<\/p>\n
NOTE: Prize Money is not deductible until after claimed.<\/p>\n
PRO No:-
\nVTT No:-
\nFULL NAME:-
\nAGE:-
\nGENDER:-
\nJOB:-
\nEMAIL:-
\nTEL\/MOBILE No:-
\nNATIONALITY\/PRESENT ADDRESS:-
\nTIME & DATE YOU RECEIVED THIS EMAIL:<\/p>\n
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Don’t respond to any of such mails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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