Has anyone received a email from the South African football assoc. lottery?

Question

Saying you have just won 2.5 million dollars? there is a email I haven't tried yet: [e-mail]. I'm not falling for it but Snopes didn't have anything on it.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Dude, I just saw a billboard from the Las Vegas Bus system on that today!! It showed an email message saying "You just won the foreign lottery!", and if you look down you see a guy who looks like a Neo-n**i punk computer hacker and it says "This man is the chairman of the foreign lottery." It's just something to think about.

Answer 2

I don't know what the story is with all of these lottery winning E-mails from GB and South Africa. They must think everybody in America is as stupid as they are. I don't even read them anymore, just click on SPAM. There should be some kind of penalty for trying to defraud the public like that. What's really surprising is they want to to respond to a Yahoo account. When you click SPAM Yahoo is supposed to close down their account.

Answer 3

Any emails you might receive from South Africa concerning winning money or anything about how you can get lots of money by doing something for that person are scams. I have a friend who lives in South Africa and he states that these scams happen all of the time. It used to be stuff like "My husband died and left millions in his account, but I need someone to get it for me", or "I need a third party to help me collect an inheritance", or other such nonsense. South Africa is famous for these scams. They are designed to get your personal information so that it can be used by them.

Answer 4

yahoo.com.hk

Haha, silly chinese and your scams!

Answer 5

It is spam, and yes.

Answer 6

Why are you opening emails if you don't know who their from?

Of course it's a scam...have you not been listening to the news or watching the commericals on internet fraud.

Answer 7

Snopes can't keep up on all of the scams right away.  Just know that if it's a lottery coming from Yahoo, it's a scam.  Forward it to [e-mail] and mark the sender as spam.

Answer 8

yep, it's c**p.  Don't even bother responding.

Answer 9

I'm SURE it's a scam.

Answer 10

yes and its a huge scam.

Answer 11

yes i have it is a scam i get lots of them and one of them said the same thing then it said i needed to send money to pick it up.....stupid asses....lol..

Answer 12

thats funny

Answer 13

i did

it's a scam, i had it a couple weeks ago and checked it out with my lawyer

Answer 14

It's the same as bull p**p.  You receive an unsolicited email, which states that you have won a major prize in an international lottery. Supposedly, your email address was collected online and attached to a random number that was subsequently entered in a draw for the lottery. In order to claim your prize, you are instructed to contact the official "agent" in charge of your case. You are also advised to keep the win confidential for "security reasons". This part of the scam is basically a random phishing expedition. If you respond in any way to the email, the scammers will send further messages or even contact you by phone in an attempt to draw you deeper into the scam.

You may be asked to provide banking details, a large amount of personal information, and copies of your driver's license and passport. Ostensibly, these requests are to prove your identity and facilitate the transfer of your winnings. However, if you comply with these requests, the scammers will have enough information to steal your identity.

Sooner or later, the scammers will request some sort of advance fee supposedly to cover administration, legal or delivery costs. At its core, this scam is just a reworking of the Nigerian loan fraud, in which scammers also eventually ask for upfront fees to facilitate the "deal". Like Nigerian scams, victims who do actually pay the requested fees will probably find that they receive continuing payment demands to cover "unexpected expenses". The requests for money will go on until the victim realizes what is happening or has no further money to send.

In some cases, the scammers give victims the option of opening an account at a particular bank as an alternative to paying upfront fees. However, this "bank" which is completely bogus, will insist on an initial deposit of $3000 as a requirement for opening the account. The fake bank will have a legitimate looking website to reinforce the scam. In other cases, the victim is given the option of travelling to an overseas destination and paying a cash fee to facilitate the release of the funds. However, any "winnings" released to the victim will be counterfeit and therefore worthless.

The details of the lottery scams vary regularly with regard to the name of the lottery itself, the country of origin, the sponsoring organization, the amount of the "prize" and other particulars. The scammers try to add a patina of legitimacy to their claims by mentioning real financial institutions, government departments or well-known companies. They may also provide links to slick looking, but fraudulent websites that are designed to back up information included in the scam emails. If the scammers are successful in establishing a dialogue with a potential victim, they may provide "proof" such as a scanned image of a supposed government official's ID and even photographs of the "winnings" in cash.

Complete list of SCAM e-mail addresses.

http://www.419baiter.com/_scam_emails/sc...

Answer 15

It's definitely a scam - you're correct about that.

Copy small parts of the scam e-mail and paste them into the Google search box. Even though the e-mail address that this scammer is using might not yet be in the database, he has probably copied his scam letter from somebody else. The Google search should turn up a few scam-database type Web sites that publish scam letters (so that we can avoid being scammed).

But anyway: Snopes might not have that exact scam e-mail on file, but the lottery scam is a very common ploy to separate a victim from his or her money. I've received many similar scams, but none that exactly match the e-mail that you're describing. My guess is that this is a fairly new re-write of the old scam. It shouldn't take long for this version to find its way into scam databases...if it hasn't already.

Answer 16

I won this lottery too! We should be friends and pool together our resources and buy a big house in which we host a reality tv show  that stars a minor pron celebrity like Tila Tequila. We'd be sooo sweet.

Answer 17

No, but I received an email from a Nigerian widower whose rich husband left a bunch of money in accounts and they transferred the money to my bank account. Im friggin rich now. I love Nigeria!

Answer 18

Just another scam. How can you win a lottery you didn't enter?

Answer 19

Definitely a scam.

Answer 20

no i havnt.

sorry "/

Answer 21

not i

Answer 22

Its a scam