SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD

Here's another lottery winning email, in bad English, telling me I've won a fantastic amount of money in a lottery I've neither heard of nor entered.

It's sent to 'undisclosed-recipients' - a warning flag if you don't believe me that it's a scam. How many people have received this same award winning email - probably the 50,000 they mention later on in the email!

They also insist, as many such emails do, that you keep it quiet until the award has been awarded. This is so that anyone who falls for the trick doesn't tell anyone what they are doing, as the other people might warn them that it's not for real.

As they say at the end of 'The Real Hustle', if it sounds to good to be true then it probably is. There's no reason why anyone would win $2.5m on a lottery they haven't heard of. Either these guys are going to steal your identity, or at least rob you of a cheque for processing the award.

Here's the content. If you want to see other lotteries that I've 'won' in recently, then view them here. They all seem to take the same sort of lines.

LOTTERY AWARD
PROMOTIONALPROGRAMME


SOUTH AFRICAN 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD.
LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS: 31, BRITON COURT,
KEMPSTON PARK, JHB.
BATCH: (13/26/DC36.)
FROM: SA NATIONAL LOTTERY
TICKET NUMBER: 74454774
SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584
BATCH NUMBER: BT-4478474121P

DRAWS NUMBERS:
AWARD 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 30 April 2008.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
$2,500.000 Dollars ( Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars )in cash credited to file reference number:IPL/4249859609/WP1.This
is from a total cash prize of 20 million Dollars shared among the ten
international winners in first categories.


All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
50,000 (Fifty thousand) names of email users around the world, 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 proces and release of your winning fund.
Agent contact and infomation are as:

NAME: DR. DAVID MOOR
(CLAIM AGENT)
Email:(ndlovu.raph@com)
TEL:+27-73- 32 54 911 .
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 it
personal) Remember, your winning must be claimed not later than (TWO
WEEKS) From the date of acknowledgement receipt. Failure to claim your
fund will be added to the next 30 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.
Best Regards,
MARIA STEVE.