Another E-Mail Scam

Another amazing big win. Altough this is reproduced as it was, I had to reformat it to make it look reasonable. A south African in a lottery I knew nothing about with notification coming from a Hong Kong Yahoo e-mail address. There are many grammar, punctuation and capitalization mistakes throughout this e-mail. If the subject of the e-mail did not cause suspicions, then the rest of it should. Lottery winning notifications do not come in this manner. Although it tells the recipient to not be surprise (d), the recipient definitely should be surprised - if fact should be wary and not respond at all. This is another one of the e-mail scams that keep coming. Since so many of these scams come out so often, I would surmise that some people must be responding to these scams and getting ripped off. Stay away from these e-mails - they are designed to scam you out of your money
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Contact: MR. MIKE SPHIWE

SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP LOTTERY 2010

Lottery headquarters:
464, Braxton court,
Carlton, eastgate
Johannesburg.

Reference number: ZAR/2324514325/2010

Batch number: SAA/2008/ZAR

Congratulations. The South African football association, safa is proud
to inform you that you have just won Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars (US$2.500, 000.00).

This lottery is sponsored by South African football association, safa
with fifty-six, 56 cooperate bodies.South Africa will be hosting the soccer
world cup in the year 2010.this will be the first ever World Cup to be held
in the continent of Africa. And we are celebrating this golden opportunity
with this lottery.

We are also using this lottery to create awareness towards the hosting
of the world cup in 2010 in South Africa.Don’t be surprise that you are one
of our winners. The aims of this lottery are to surprise our winners.

However no previous notification is given before your email address was
picked for this lottery. Generally email address are picked, the draws are
processed by the computer through a special program that is special designed for
this lottery, the program is known as Random Access Program (RAP)

This software picks email addresses from the internet and through a
random process, picks the winners through their email address.

CLAIMING OF PRIZE

To claim your cash prize please contact the lottery manager MR. MIKE
SPHIWE immediately with the following information:

Contact: MR. MIKE SPHIWE
Email: safa.claimsmanager@yahoo.com.hk

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 abuse of this program. Please be warned.

Congratulations!!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Joy Charlotte
Promotions manager
World cup 2010
South Africa

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The following e-mail is similiar to the above but with less detail. This time a hotmail e-mail address was used and the UK rather that South Africa is the source of the funds. But still winning is by automated e-mail selection (when the e-mail was never entered into any contest!). Similiar mistakes appear - formatting, grammar issues, spelling,and so on. Just another copycat scam attempt.

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Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just
concluded annual final draws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL
PROGRAM. international programs.After this automated
computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two
winners in the category \"A\" You are therefore been approve
to claim the sum of £800,000,00 (Eight Hundred thousand Pounds
Sterling)with the information below:

REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24

Claim Agent Name: Mr. Wilson Charles

PLEASE REPLY TO:
Mr. Wilson Charles
DIRECT EMAIL: sec_dept1@hotmail.com
Tel1:+447045700649

Sincerely,
Mrs. Caroline Bryan.