Lottery scam emails

If you received any of these emails, please delete them immediately and never reply to them! They originate from scammers and are using reference to our site illegally to gain your trust to reveal your personal information. If you haven't played the lottery, you couldn't have won it! If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is.

Lottery scam email example #1:

            YAHOO MAIL LOTTERY

            2012 MICROSOFT YAHOO ANNIVERSARY AWARD NOTIFICATION

            This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million British Pounds (£1,000,000.00) for 2012 Prize
            promotion which was organized by YAHOO, AOL & WINDOWS LIVE, MSN this 2012, YAHOO and MICRO SOFT collects all the
            email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and
            few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the
            Selected Winners.

            PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM.

            Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed no later than
            28th days, from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited. Stated below
            are your identification numbers: BATCH NUMBER: MFI/08/APA-43658, REFERENCE NUMBER: 2008234522, PIN: 1208
            WINNING NUMBER: 03 11 23 28 30 48 And Bonus 29, These numbers fall within the Johannesburg Location file,
            you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Johannesburg South Africa and send your winning identification
            numbers to him:

            CLAIMS MANAGER CONTACT INFORMATION:
            NAME: MR. DAVID SOLOMON
            E-Mail: dsolomond2012@live.com
            or
            E-Mail: c-deprr@hotmail.com
            TEL: + 27 83 559 8633.
            Fax: + 27 86 560 1778.

            or

            E-Mail: dsolomond@live.com
            TEL: + 27 73 073 5666.
            Fax: + 27 86 560 1778.

            You are advised to send the following information to your Claims Agent to facilitate the release of your fund to you.

            1. Full Name:.................
            2. Country:.....................
            3. Contact Address:..........
            4. Cell Number:.................
            5. Tel Number..................Fax Number.............
            6. Sex: Male .Age: ...................
            7. Occupation:....................................
            8. Marital Status:............................
            9. Alternative email address:.............................

            Congratulations!! Once again.
            Yours in service,

            Susan Davies (coordinator)

            For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed
            and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our
            precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
            Please be warned!!!!!

            FOR MORE INFO YOU CAN CHECK OUR WEBSITE: http://www.beatlottery.co.uk/lotto
            you can as well check your winning Numbers by clicking on http://www.beatlottery.co.uk/lotto/results-checker