Email Fraud Alert received from: Miss
I recently received an email with this subject line: Winning notification and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
REFERENCE Nº: LPB0031894/35
TICKET Nº: 91AW6788424622
BATCH Nº: 56741159
Dear Winner,
The British International Powerball Lottery Program wishes to inform you
the results of the collective E-mail address ballot lottery award by the
British International Lottery Program held in United Kingdom on August
21st, 2014. Your email ID is among the jackpot lucky winners for the sum
of £800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds) for this month
prize promotion award which was organized by International Power Ball
Promotion Inc here in London United Kingdom.
This result is now made available to you and your email address attached
in the Category A draw lucky number 6, 16, 20, 31, 36 and the Powerball
No: 8. Participants were selected through a computerized ballot system
drawn from company and individual email addresses users.
We advice that you keep your winning information confidential until your
claims has been processed and your money released to you. This is part of
our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program. For the release of your winnings, kindly provide us with
the following details to expedite the processing of your prize winning.
1. Full name and address:
2. Country of Residence:
3. Tel and fax number:
4. Occupation:
5. Age:
6. Sex:
7. Passport/ID No:
8. E-mail:
9. Reference no and ticket no:
You are advised to contact our Claim Department immediately with the above
details for the claim of your winnings.
Name: Mr. James Walker
E-mail: powerballclaims@shqiptar.eu
All winning must be claimed not later than two weeks from the date of
receipt of this email. After this date all prize winning will treated as
Unclaimed
Note in order to avoid unnecessary delays; remember to quote your
Reference and ticket numbers in all correspondence. Congratulations once
again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our special
quarterly promotional Lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Rella Williams
(Promotion Claims Manager)
The above email was sent by “Powerball Int’l” from this email address: rellawilliams27455@gmail.com
I, Miss, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “Powerball Int’l”:
My sincerest apologies Rella Williams but I have now in conravention of your instruction; “We advice that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money released to you.” told the whole world of my fortune.
By the way as a purportedly British company your spelling and grammar suck. Please change the line quoted above to read as follows in future phishing attempts; “We advise that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been processed and your money released to you.”