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Yesterday, I have received an e-mail that I have won Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars from the Secured Mega Jackpot Online Sweepstakes! WoW! That is great… that is… “if and only if” this is true. (Not mentioning that I did not place a bet on any lottery! )

I immediately went on the google search engine and search for such lottery. And I have concluded in the end that it was a scam! It is nothing like a simple text (SMS) cellphone scam telling you that you have win a certain price. The contact persons would even insert “atty.” in their names. Crap…

I am so disgusted with these people who are trying to deceive others and make money from them.

Just in case you receive this idiotic e-mail hoax, just mark it as a phishing scam. The e-mail that I have received is as follows:

Dear Domain User!

We are pleased to notify you the “Winner” of our last Secured Mega Jackpot Online Sweepstakes result. This is a reward program for the patronage of internet services and all email addresses entered for this promotional draws were randomly selected from an internet resource database of registered software and domain users.

Reference Number: IT 623 PC 071
E-ticket number: JJ 1109 /2009-10
Category: A
Amount: Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars

You may wish to establish contact with your claims agent via e-mail with the particulars presented below:

Name: Mr. Rizota Lucas
Phone: +393 271689755
Email: zotalucas@yahoo.cn

In line with the governing rules of claim, you are requested to furnish Mr. Rizota Lucas With the following information:
1. Full name… 2. Address… 3. Occupation. 4. Tel/Fax…. 5.Age……. 6.Winning Ref Number………..

Congratulations!!
For: Scalatti Grandi
Promotions Co-ordinator

IMPORTANT NOTICE: PLEASE DIRECT YOUR REPLY TO MY OFFICIAL EMAIL ADDRESS: zotalucas@yahoo.cn

Copyright © 2009. Italia Web National Lottery Inc

From now on I will be posting e-mail hoax and internet scams in my “Internet Scams and Hoax” category.

Hope this post helps! Avoid scams like these ok?