THE NATIONAL LOTTERY 23, KEMPTON PARK JOHANNESBURG. SOUTH AFRICA (Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK?

[Carmilo]

Dear Winner,

Congratulations!! This is to acknowledge the receipt of your email; tentatively you are a winner of One million Great Britain Pounds Sterling, you will be pronounced winner when you complete your claims process. Your email address emerged as one of seventy winners of 70,000,000.00GBP cash in the Category "B" for our E-business Promotional draws from 210,000 email addresses of individuals/companies based on computer Balloting all over the world, all participants where picked from every part of the globe irrespective of race or geographical location.

Your e-mail address was randomly selected along with others from over 24,000 website on the Internet attached to the World Wide Web computer generated E-ticket number: 112-0745-810-264 with reference number TNL/90G3825H9/08B and Serial number 0152-12,drew the lucky numbers: 11-24-14-36-08 and a bonus number of 18. This subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. matches 5 lucky numbers Plus Bonus number.

This entitles you to claim a cash prize of 1,000,000.00GBP (One Million Great Britain Pounds sterling) credited to your file as one of the seven lucky winners in your category.

PRIZE BREAK DOWN
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Draw 1404. 14 32 35 41 42 Bonus 43 Jackpot for this draw £7,542,072
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No.of matches No.of winners £s per winner £s Prize fund
Match 6 4 £1,885,518 £7,542,072
*Match 5 plus Bonus 7 £1,000,000 £70,000,000* Match 5 387 £2,522 £976,014
Match 4 25,997 £82 £2,131,754
Match 3 519,196 £10 £5,191,960
Totals 545,587 £17,403,993
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This promotion was drawn based on email address as the key identification for setting up online accounts. All valid email addresses in the World Wide Web Draw used/participants for the online email promotion version were selected randomly via computer balloting from a global website collaboration with internet companies like eBay, pay pal, liberty reserve, and Google whom also built their systems and based their membership registration identity on email addresses supporting this computer draw system done by extracted email addresses from over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies and affiliated members to the National Lottery website and their advertisers listed online.

I would immediately require you provide the details below to facilitate my activities with the verification/remittance department for the endorsement of your claim and release your cash prize for onward remittance to you. Stand informed that the requested details will be thoroughly verified thus ensure to provide the requested details accurately to avert complications: Return as email attachment or fax.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLIED PERSONAL BIO DATA

Full Name Surname/First:
Telephone Numbers:
Address/City:
Country of Origin:
Occupation:
Date of Birth:
Gender:
Marital Status:
DECLARATION:

I..... HEREBY DECLARE THAT THE ABOVE DATA ARE TRUE. IN CASE OF ANY UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE, MY NEXT OF KIN HAS THE RIGHT TO CLAIM MY TOTAL WINNING.


Yours faithfully,
Armstrong Wales. Claims Agent
Tel: +27723839156
Fax :+27866669233

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY Copyright © 1994-2012 the National Lottery International Promotion Inc.
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Do you think this email is true? It is real?

[Roddy]

It's for suckers. They will either want some sort of fee or your bank account numbers. Either way you will never see a penny and you will lose most of what you have now.

[Kuku Kajoob ♫]

Lottery scams are the oldest scam on the internet
They are advanced fee scams.
You pay fees to get the prize..then they steal your money
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam#Lottery_scam

To make it simple. No big money will every come your way via email

Scamwarner regarding National Lottery
http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtop...7&start=60

[Kittysue]

100% SCAM
1 - the British pound is NOT used in South Africa so there is no way any prize money would ever be in pounds
2 - ANY lotttery in South Africa is ONLY open to legal residents of South Africa
3 - There is NO lottery in the world that informs random winners by email
4 - You can't win ANY lottery if you did not BUY a lottery ticket

So if you are not a citizen of South Africa and did not buy a lottery ticket from an authorised lottery agent in South Africa in the past 7 days then of course you can't win

This is a phishing scam to steal your identity and empty your bank account. Delete it

[gentleclam884]

100% scam.

There is no lottery.

There is no Yahoo, Skype, Facebook, Nokia, Shell, BBC, Google, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lotto Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.