The email message below, which claims that the recipients are lucky winners of the world cup anniversary draw, is a lottery scam. You should not respond to these messages with your personal information. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and sending money. Therefore, never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted you via email message.
The Lottery Scam Email Message
From: fifaquarta @gmail.com
Dear: Winner,
Congratulations, your cell phone number is among the 10 lucky winners, that has won the sum of USD$500.000.00 (Five hundred thousand United States Dollars Only) in the just concluded draw of world cup anniversary held in LONDON (United Kingdom) to promote, support and create global awareness for the FIFA FEMALE SOCCER WORLD CUP (CANADA 2015) sponsored by United Kingdom Games and Gambling Board with the World Football Federation (Fifa) The world soccer Governing Body.
Be informed that you did not enter into any competition but your telephone number was randomly selected by our computer electronic ballot system, (e-ballot) to promote soccer in Canada. You are advised to provide the following information for the processing of your winnings. Email on: tancffs @hotmail.com or call this phone number 447418478536
NAME:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY:
DATE OF BIRTH:
SEX:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
MOBILE NUMBER:
FAX NUMBER:
OCCUPATION:
Your Email Attached to Ticket Number; UKBF14 4231 95606541 033, WINNING NUMBERS: 2/15/27/31/34/41, Bonus number 14.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr Cliff Jonathan