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$2.8m FIFA 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY SCAM

by $h@mood G on May 18, 2010


Beware! Its a Cyber World - - Summary:

Message purporting to be a "winning notification" from international football association FIFA, claims that the recipient has won two million eight hundred thousand dollars in the FIFA 2010 World Cup Lottery.

The cyber culprits always try to reap the benefits from the big events like 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. In the last month; an article was posted here at 'Beware! Its a Cyber World'; alerting internet users that cyber crimes are on the rise as the FIFA World Cup is approaching.

In fact, this email message is also a part of that cyber crime wave which is not from FIFA and the supposed lottery does not exist. The message is a scam designed to trick recipients into sending money and personal information to Internet Criminals.

Let's have a look to the mail contents and attachment (a certificate in pdf format) here below then we'll proceed towards the detailed analysis and explanation:


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FIFA 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY

CONGRATULATIONS! ! ! !

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce to you as one of the 3 lucky winners in the FIFA 2010 AWARD draw held on March 31ST 2010. All 3 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 5,000,000 international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 2 others as a 3rd category winner in this month's draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of $2, 800,000, 00 USD (Two Million Eight Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) only.

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order: (i) BATCH NUMBER: FIFA-SA/40/UK-0079
(ii) REFERENCE NUMBER:

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