Is there FIRST NATIONAL BANK LTD.? In South Africa.?

Question

It is organigze the The World Cup 2010 promote Lottery.

Answer 1

Most of these email scans involve real companies. Scammers will use real company names to try and make their claims sound legitimate.

But seriously. Does it really seem likely that some foreign country is going to organize a lottery and then simply randomly give money away to people who never paid to play?

I've said it before. Imagine that Powerball announced that it had given away its jackpot of $200,000,000 to some dude in South Africa who had never played Powerball, but they drew his email address out of a random list and decided to give him the money.

How do you think Americans would react to that news?

Not well.

Well most countries are the same way. If their lotteries kept giving away money to random Americans who had never entered them, there would probably quite a lot of questions asked. Not to mention the fact that such a system would be open to all kinds of abuse.

So the short answer to your question is this. Delete the email, never contact the spammer/scammer who sent it to you. You have not won any money whatsoever. If you do contact them, they will try to extract money and/or personal information from you to rip you off.

Answer 2

This is a Nigeria scam. Yahoo/MSN, U.K. and Australian lotteries, football lotteries from the same counties, Global-Link, World Poverty, Microsoft, Free Lotto, which now seems to have it's own people answering gambling questions on this site claiming they have won which is a total lie, and hundreds more. I am a retired Police Officer that has years of experience investigating Internet scams and frauds. This is an old one. The common link to them getting your email is on line surveys. Yahoo does not give it's stock holders money away nor does it give it's email subscribers address's to lotteries. The only way to win in a lottery is to buy a ticket, if you didn't you could not possibly win. Here is the website of the 17 nation law enforcement task force that investigates cross border Internet crime. You may file a complaint there. www.econsumer.gov. Also go to www.ripoffreport.com and browse complaints and you will find many having the same doubts as yourself about these scams. Below is a typical scam and how they work it. They just go under a thousand different names. They are asking you to send a prepayment to collect your winnings and they want you to send it by a money wire service. Lotteries do not just pick your name out of thin air, and just so happen to have your email also. No Internet service provider gives their email list out to lotteries. If you did not pay to play you could not possibly win.

recieved letter of winning $65000.00 Pacific Player International lotteries,please contact claims agent miss linda strong at 204-951-7582. Second letter came with a check for the amount of $2,470.00 To deposited in my bank account for processing fee,a week later check cleared my bank. I contacted my claims agent over the phone she advise me to wire the balance of $2,341.00 to a Mr Edward Culwell in New York,New York.I called miss linda strong to advise her of the western union confirmation number,to date can not get in touch with linda strong just her voice mail, I know now that it was all a RIP-OFF and now Iam in the hole with $2,470.00 with my bank.... Please send HELP... THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Answer 3

Yes there is FNB Ltd in South Africa - one of the top 5 banks.
......It is what its name implies - A Bank.
... only it does not organize 2010 w/c nor promote lottery......

Answer 4

Is there First bank LTD?In South Africa?

Answer 5

Yes there is love. One of the biggest banks in South Africa.In every single town you will find a FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SA LIMITED.

Answer 6

scam

soo many like it, too

don't listen to it.. they're fishing for money. Scams.

There was a special on 20/20 where they confronted the scammers, too..

Answer 7

No it's a scam.

Answer 8

no its a con

Answer 9

SCAM