Recd mail from 2010 Lottery that I won $ 2 M. They want I should send them $ 1000 processing fee pl advise.?

Question

FROM NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY HQ.

SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD.
LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS: 31, BRITON COURT,
KEMPSTON PARK, JHB.
TICKET NUMBER: 74454774
SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584
BATCH NUMBER: BT-4478474121P
DRAWS NUMBERS: 6, 7, 11, 21, 26, 37, 44.

We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the long awaited results of the South African 2010 World cup Bid award INTERNANTIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION held in Zurich, Switzerland on the 12th AUGUST 2006.You were entered as dependent clients with: Reference SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584 and Batch number BT-4478474121P.
Your email address attached to the ticket number: 74454774 that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won the sweepstake in the first category,in four parts. You have been approved for a payment of US$2,000,000.00 (Two million United States Dollars) in cash credited to file reference
number: IPL/4249859609/WP1.This is from a total cash prize of US ($400,000,000.00) shared among the first 200

Answer 1

Hi, This is a scam, It has been all over the news and magazine TV shows that it is a scam, and if you send the money it is gone. You get nothing except an empty bank account. Report it to your ISP. They will notify authorities.

Answer 2

I want everyone to take note of this, This is the reason the internet has become so congested. To the point though. FRAUD. The first giveaway that this is a scan is the obvious abundance of information. They try to hard to make you believe this is a real deal. What the heck do they need a batch number and a serial number in the lottery for. Stupidity. Second if your questing the validity of this message you have seen them before. Odds are you are on a list or two. Very easy to get cought up. Third, most lotterys are amusing enough to at least say "not valid for residents outside of the country" but for some reason these guys are different. TOO EASY. Keep on trying. Your sure to win if you play in a real lottery but this is too convenient. Oh, one more thing they ask for money? If I was a lottery commission that had that much money what the heck do I need your money for. There is nothing that cant be bought including regulations with enough money

Answer 3

I hope this answers you question. i got the same email with the exact same numbers, and probly even the exact same contact.
i was really curious too till i seen your question then compared the info in the email we both couldnt have won with the exact same lotto. thanks for putting your question online i was considering it until i saw your question.


FROM NATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY HQ.

SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD.
LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS: 31, BRITON COURT,
KEMPSTON PARK, JHB.
TICKET NUMBER: 74454774
SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584
BATCH NUMBER: BT-4478474121P
DRAWS NUMBERS: 6, 7, 11, 21, 26, 37, 44.

AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION:


We are pleased to inform you of the release, of the long awaited results of the South African 2010 World cup Bid award INTERNANTIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION held in Zurich, Switzerland on the 12th AUGUST 2006.You were entered as dependent clients with: Reference SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584 and Batch number BT-4478474121P.
Your email address attached to the ticket number: 74454774 that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won the sweepstake in the first category,in four parts. You have been approved for a payment of US$2,000,000.00 (Two million United States Dollars) in cash credited to file reference
number: IPL/4249859609/WP1.This is from a total cash prize of US ($400,000,000.00) shared among the first 200 Hundred and lucky winners in this category world-wide.

AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from (100,000,00) companies and individual emails address, as part of our international promotion program. Due to mixed up of some names and addresses, we ask that you keep this award personal, till your claims has been processed and your funds remitted to you. This is part of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of the situation by other participants or impersonators, You are therefore directed to contact your claim agent immediately on receipt of this massage for quickened and urgent release of your wining fund. His contact

information is as follows:

NAME: MR. James Zulu.
TEL: [phone]
EMAIL: [e-mail]

He is your agent, and responsible for the processing and transfer of your winnings to you. YOUR SECURITY FILE NUMBER IS Z-90237-Y67/U4 (keep personal) Remember, your winning must be claimed not later than (1 MONTH) From the date of acknowledgement receipt. Failure to claim your fund will be added to the next 10 Million Dollars lottery promotion. Furthermore, should there be any change in your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible. Once again, Congratulations.

FILL THE DETAILS BELOW:
REMEMBER TO QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE SERIAL NUMBERS:
1.TEL:
2.SEX:
3.AGE:
4.NAME:
6.ADDRESS:
7.COUNTRY:
8.OCCUPATION:
9. SERIAL NUMBERS:
10.BATCH NUMBERS:
11TICKET NUMBERS:
FILL AND SEND IMMEDIATELY TO YOUR CLAIM AGENT OFFICE FOR IMMEDIATE TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER OF YOUR PRIZE MONEY TO YOUR NOMINATED BANK ACCOUNT IN YOUR COUNTRY

Answer 4

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!
There are a lot of scams going around with people from foreign countries. If you won $2 Million dollars, tell them to take the processing fee out of your earnings. Heck, tell them you'll give them a 10,000 tip out of your earnings. They wont do it because you did not win the lottery.
There is also a scam where they give you a job as a mystery shopper. They give you a fake check and tell you to cash it. They then tell you to keep a few hundred as your first paycheck and send the rest of the money back to them. A few days later, you will find that the check has bounced and you are responsible for the entire amount that the check was for.
DO NOT SEND THEM ANY OF YOUR MONEY.
It is very hard to get your money back once you fall for those type of scams.

Answer 5

yes yes yes send it before its too late, oh hurry please, you should really check people out, do a Webb check, and if they gave you any phone numbers to call wait until they are sleeping in that part of the world and then call it then you will see it some drunk that is scamming people that's how i learned they where setting me up,to cheat me good, their are no good people from Nigeria they and their government are working together to steel their way out of poverty at our expence, look on the webb at the ivoy coast of africa the put in the words scam warnings look at what is going on over their it a very bad place they thought i had money and they where trying to get me to fly over their and bring just a little money and they would have killed me fast and had their lunch and a cold beer after, just for $100 dollars check out how much 1 dollar will buy over their a girl and lunch, please forget all about this and never look back, im happy i only lost $500 it could have been more.

Answer 6

It is a scam, they want $1000 of your money. That is the only cash that will get transferred. Delete this message and ignore any more that come your way. You need to be more careful of what you are willing to believe. There are many criminals out in cyberspace that have found all kinds of ways to get gullible people to part with their money.

Answer 7

Most of these you have won pay first are just tricks to get money from you ,I wish you luck but I would check this out with an acreddited agency before you loose your money.

Answer 8

Well, have you bought any tickets to join that lottery? Haha. It's a scam. :)

Answer 9

Scam Scam scam Scam!

Answer 10

usually this is a scam!!! when you have to send in money to collect a lottery prize.
did you even enter???????????
try bad buisness bureau.com