This is a Publishers Clearing House scam, a classic lottery scam that's older than the internet. These are easily fallen for, since everyone knows that PCH does give money away to real winners. The spam is in green, my comments are in yellow. If you actually did enter the PCH Sweepstakes, they are not going to contact you by e-mail. Someone from PCH would send you notice by snail mail, call you on the phone, and ask permission for the media to be there. Another great tipoff that this is a scam is that they want you to reply to a free e-mail address. These are always scams. Not From Publishers Clearing House <[email protected]> Reply-to: [email protected] (Free Chinese Yahoo e-mail address) To: Recipients <[email protected]> (Meaning it was bulkmailed to numerous people) Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 Dear Winner (Intended Victim)!!! This is to inform you that your email address has been emerged as the winner of ($10,000,000.00 USD) in the publishers clearing house Lotto. For details of claims, Send us your full name and home address asap. Contact E-mail: [email protected]. Do Not Reply to this free e-mail address until you want to scambait them :o) Regards Mr. Jose Mark Scams R Us, Inscamerated. We Belong in Prison. I got this very same scam-mail, dated May 25, on April 17. It's already on my website in the upper right hand column, listed Here. Apparently the free Japanese Yahoo e-mail address they want you to respond to hasn't been closed down yet. That's going to change very shortly, assuming I'm not ignored this time. The "identification numbers" haven't even changed, not even the name of the "claiming agent." They claim that some "promotions company" bought your ticket and played for you, in your name. If you did not go out to purchase your own lottery ticket, then you did not win. Yahoo does not run any "lottery" in conjunction with anyone, and no one notifies "winners" by e-mail address or mobile phone. Also see a lottery scam video from the BBC, posted Here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You.
These scammers are saying that you've "won" $1.22 million from Coca-Cola, in "conjunction" with the Canadian lottery. They even had a fancy Word document all drawn up with pictures of happy people and an "authorized" signature. All the images were downloaded from the internet, of course. "Your e-mail" has "been approved" as the "lucky winner." Just one of the problems with this is that it was bulk-mailed out to hundreds or perhaps thousands of people.
Yes, Coke might have some special promotions from time-to-time when they'll give away free bottles of Coke products, if you have a winning code under a bottlecap, or something like that. No corporation or company, big or small, however, has any "lottery," and they certainly do not choose "winners" by e-mail address or mobile phone number. It's just a big lottery scam. In the United States, lotteries are strictly regulated by each State. There isn't any such thing as a business giving away "lottery winnings" unless it's been approved to do so. If a normal business like Coke or John Deere do give money away, it is an advertising gimmick known as philanthropy, and the money always goes to worthy causes, not to individual people. If you did not drive down to the store and purchase your very own paper lottery ticket, then you did not win. There's lots more of these lottery scam samples located Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You. This, of course, is not from Free Lotto. It says it's from zpmc.net, which is in some oriental language, so I had Google translate it. The page says it's under construction. Free Lotto is a real site, run since 1999, where you can apparently win lottery prizes. I've never played, so I'm not sure how it works, or if it does work. To stay up for the 12 years that they claim, they must be making money somehow. The bottom line is that if you didn't go to Free Lotto's website, sign up, and play their games, then you didn't win.
Seriously, if you did not play even one single game with any lottery, why the hell would they call you or e-mail you out of the blue, and tell you that you've won? You never signed up, and never took any chances at winning, so they wouldn't. They wouldn't have any idea where to e-mail you at. It looks as if these scammers are trying to hook people who have played lotto games before, just as they try to hook people into giving up their bank account information when they may or may not have an account at the bank in question. They even list Free Lotto's winning numbers, straight off their website. Furthermore, this scam-mail (near the top left on the webpage, below) says they want you to respond to a free Hotmail address. If this were Free Lotto, why would they not want you to respond to a freelotto.com address? It's because they have no access to Free Lotto's e-mail server. That's why all of these are scams, because they always want you to respond to a free e-mail address. They even have the audacity to issue the warning, again, straight off of Free Lotto's website, trying to convince you that they are with Free Lotto. They're not. "Warning! Fraudulent e-mails are circulating, that appear to be using Free Lotto addresses, but are not from The Free Lotto. PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO: [email protected]." LOL. For more of these, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You. "Kim" says she's with the UK National Lottery Commission, and wants your "assistance" to collect on an "unclaimed" winning lottery ticket. While supposedly living in London -- she doesn't actually say so -- she says the "winning amount" is 8,497,985, with a question mark in place of the British Pound Sterling Symbol '£' LOL. Don't help her, let her figure it out on her own. So we can see "what she is talking about," she points us at two different lottery stories that are each at least five years old. To see more of these lottery scams, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You.
Scammers pretending to be from Yahoo, Microsoft, Nokia, and a number of other companies and corporations would like you to believe that you've won "lottery money" from them, because your e-mail address has been picked. They bulk mail these out to undisclosed recipient lists, however, trying to hook someone. No corporation has any "lottery." No one chooses "winners" by e-mail. If you didn't buy a lottery ticket yourself, you did not win. These are all scams, every single one of them. To see more Yahoo scam-mails, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank you.
Hey I got some nice souvenirs with this little gem. It included a joint UK / South African flag, a 2010 World Cup image from last year, and I even got an image of someone's signature. You can see them if you click on the link below.
My e-mail has won the British - South African 2011 Online Lottery Draw held in London during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Um, no, it hasn't. Neither has yours. If you didn't actually go out to buy a paper lottery ticket, you didn't win. There is no money, guaranteed. This is just a lottery scam. To see more samples of these scams from the Commonwealth, Click Here. This entry is in the upper left hand corner. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Someone by the Hebrew name of "אוטומציה," which is translated by Google as "Automation," wants you to believe that you are the winner in the "on-going Guinness National Promo" to "celebrate 250 years" of various types of Guinness Beer, and your e-mail address was "selected." Listen up: No corporation runs any kind of lottery or sweepstakes. They certainly don't run any "promotions" where they are giving large quantities of money away to individual people. Sure, Guinness might give away some beer every now and then. But no company anywhere chooses e-mail addresses as "winners." If you didn't buy a paper ticket, you didn't win. For more of these scam samples, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated.
"Reverend James Ferguson" claims you've won £500,000.00 from "Blackberry." Corporations give away money to good causes. This method of giving is called philanthropy. People who own such corporations are called philanthropists. Examples are the Bill Gates Foundation or the Ford Foundation. Philanthropy is basically an advertising gimmick. They give money away through their foundations in order to make more money. Corporations, however, never give money away to individual people. Anytime you see spam that says Shell, Coca-Cola, Nokia, Microsoft, or any other corporation is going to personally give you money because you "won their lottery," it is a scam. They do not run lotteries. When's the last time you bought a lottery ticket from Pepsi? Every single spam you see that is promising you money is a scam. They are all scams, all day, all night, all the time, 100 percent of the time, 24/7/365. To see more of these scam samples, Click Here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated.
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is a real bank, and these scammers are trying to convince you that you have "won their lottery." In the first place, no one chooses lottery winners by e-mail address. You have to go and actually buy a paper ticket with cash. So if you didn't buy a ticket, you didn't win. Second, corporations such as Microsoft, Honda, Yahoo, and Shell do not hold lotteries. It's very likely that ICBC doesn't, either. Banks make much better money with interest than they would with a 5 percent lottery profit, and when's the last time you saw tickets for sale at a bank? So please do not believe any scam-mail hype that you supposedly "won the lottery," because you didn't. For more Lottery Scam samples, Click Here.
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AuthorMy name is Gary, and I live in the Midwestern United States. This site is intended to expose the frauds and scams that are so pervasive on the internet, especially today. One hundred per- cent of the e-mails you get that promise you millions are never, ever real. They'll tell you they're "dying," trying to gain your sympathy. They're not dying, they're lying. Click Here for the "Dying" scams. Don't fall for it, and never send them any money, no matter what they tell you. Oh, and good luck hacking this website. It's got a nice strong password on it. Archive
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