About a week ago, I was contacted by a man who identified himself as Brian Shaw from a company he said was Global International.  He has two separate 876 numbers and claims to be working out of Manhattan, Suite 12, 8^th St. 10027.  He sounded to be Pakistani or Indian and the call was a poor connection which I think was on an overseas trunk line.  Anyway, his name did not fit his accent.  He told me I’d won 2.5 million in an international lottery....

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the (20th April, 2008) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion, your email  was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £1,000.000 (One million Great Britain Pound Sterling s) each on the THE COCA'COLA COMPANY PROMOTION.

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of (200,000.00 GB Pounds) for the June 2009 International E-mail Draw which is Organized by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).

SPDC collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Aol, Walla, Gmail, Russian Mail and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected Monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.

This is to inform you that you have won prize what of EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($800,000.00) for the month of JUNE 2009 Lottery promotion which organized by U.S.A TEXAS LOTTERY INC.

We don't support or endorse freelotto business, but this scam mail is a separate issue. The scammer is using this website's name in this 419 scam, or it could also turn out to be a fake check scam.

"We gladly announce to you the draw of the FREELOTTO online International program held this month.Your e-mail address You were entered as dependent clients with: Reference Serial Number:F2-003-036 and Batch number R/45-300-07. Your email address attached to the ticket number: 54-20-17-52-34-30 that draw the lucky winning number, which consequently won the Daily Jackpot in the first category A."

Heart Thumping!

"We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 6th June, 2009  from the Australian International Lottery programme....

You hereby have  been approved a lump sum pay of US$200,000.00 (TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file  Ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize  shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category."

Which is real and which is fake?

citigroup.com
citigroupfoundation.com
citigroupsfoundation.com
citigroupfoundations.com

We fell off our chair:

"This is to inform you that have been selected for a cash prize of £600,000.00 (Six Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds)and a brand new toyota car (Toyota venza) International program held today in London Uk.

You can view our website to view your car
(<http://www.toyota.com /venza/)"

Recently the Visa Card And yahoo/msn  International  contacted you regarding your new Prize winnings. This is confirming receipt of your correspondence and assuring you that in line with our principles of efficiency, transparency and  satisfaction, you shall be treated with the best possible service within the abilities of this office and in line with our policies.

Your claims file has been duly forwarded to my office with specific instructions that our department shall be handling the processing of your prize of £5-0,000GBP, and Bmw X6 to you.

FROM THE DESK OF MRS. CAROLYN SCHMITT
8TH FLOOR, 39 WOODLANDS CLOSE GOLDERS
GREEN LONDON NW11 9QR UNITED KINGDOM
HEADING :{AWARD RESULT 2009}

 
From World Education Foundation in Association with Readers Digest®,
we happily announce to you that you have won award of $750,000.00 at
China Payment Center.

In order to help you believe that such deals are scams, please check out our entire collection of lottery scams from fake Coca Cola, Pepsi, BMW, Peugeot, Yahoo, Microsoft, UN, FBI, etc.

"Congratulation You Have Been Selected in the on-going chevron texaco poverty alleviation program. Held this year and you have been awarded $852,000.00 USD. (EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLAS)."

How dare they use the name of the president in the scam. They are asking for trouble!

"On behalf of the Obama's Foundation, we wish to notify you as a beneficiary of $99,000,000 USD in compensation of scam victims.Do contact HSBC INTERNATIONAL
BANK, United Kingdom Branch for verification and release of your $99,000,000 USD that we have deposited with the HSBC BANK,UK"

Wow, a big red - 2009 version of the Coca Cola lottery scam report.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the (8^th May 2009) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion, your email was among the 4 Lucky winners who won £2,500,000.00 (Two million, Five Hundred Great Britain Pound Sterlings) each on the THE COCA'COLA COMPANY PROMOTION However the results were released on the (12^th of May 2009) and your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number (BT:12052006/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 30,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

This is a new scam mail targeting Acculotto.com - who does not run a lottery.

"We are pleased to inform you of the result of the http://www.acculotto.com/ lottery.html Winners International E-mail programs held on the 12th May, 2009 and result where release on 19th of May, 2009  Your E-mail address attached to ticket number 653-908-321-675,with serial main number 345-790-241-671 drew lucky star numbers 334-32-90-43-32, which consequently won in the 2ND category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of One Million  Euros (1.000,000.00) Euros CONGRATULATIONS!!!"