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2010 World Cup Brings Lottery Scammers Out of the Woodwork!
The FIFA World Cup will take place this year in South Africa and will probably be the most watched sports event on the planet. In 2006 an estimated 715.1 million people viewed the World Cup which was held in Germany. All of the matches of the 2010 games are expected to be sold out and football fans from around the world will descend on South Africa this June and July. Unfortunately the demand for tickets has prompted scammers to take advantage of World Cup fever. A new series of emails are making the rounds telling the gullible they have won several million dollars in the “World Cup Lottery. Basically this is a variation on the old and well known 419 advance fee scam.
One email titled “The South African 2010 World Cup Bid International Lottery” has been making the rounds of email inboxes around the world. There are several features of this particular email that are clear indications of a typical lottery scam. The first and most obvious clue is that no legitimate lottery will notify winners via email. The scammers will tell their victims that there email address was selected by computer email draw or a computer ballot system. Put bluntly there is no such thing as a random email ballot system. The spelling, syntax and misspellings in the emails are another clear indication of a typical lottery scam. These emails are obviously written by persons not well versed in the English language and most people in South Africa use English as a primary language.
Another indication that the World Cup lottery is a scam is the use of free email accounts. Check out the official UK National Lottery website or any other official lottery website and you will see that official lottery websites never use free email accounts. Asking the lottery winner to keep their big win confidential is probably the most obvious indication of a lottery scam. Lotteries love publicity and encourage big winners to come forward to claim their winnings and to talk to the media. And finally, no legitimate lottery notifies winners by emailever!
You may wonder just where the scammers got your email address. The answer is simple; scammers harvest email addresses from websites you may have visited such as blogs, comments on public forums or any other websites that are publicly accessible. Scammers use rogue programs to search the internet for email addresses. Cyber criminals also sell email lists to spammers and scammers. Protect yourself from scammers and enjoy the greatest sporting event in the worldthe 2010 World Cup!
Play Free Bingo during 2010 World Cup at Ladbrokes Bingo
Ladbrokes Bingo is bringing our great roomies the chance to play for FREE during the entire month-long period of the 2010 World Cup! Whether you love football, arent that keen or hate the football completely, Ladbrokes Bingo is giving you the chance to get involved and win some great prizes! There are a total of 64 matches taking place at the 2010 World Cup and, whenever there is a match on, there will be FREE BINGO at Ladbrokes Bingo a total of over 95 hours across the whole tournament!
The World Cup is back and were getting behind it in style with Super Free Bingo!
For every match of the World Cup between Friday 11th June Sunday 11th July 2010, were going to run Free Bingo! Every game of Bingo in the Attic from the start time of a World Cup match will be free for 105 minutes!
Prize pools in each of the FREE games will be £30 and will be split as follows:
1-line:
5
2-lines: £10
Full house: £15
Play now to win this 2010 World Cup Free Bingo Games at Ladbrokes Bingo.
But thats not all! The World Cup also sees the return of Superbooks! Superbooks have been our incredibly popular prize-multiplying option, which only run with Free Bingo. And for all Free Bingo games during the World Cup, you can purchase a Superbooks ticket for only 1p! Thats an investment of 1p to stand a chance of doubling your prize! Watch out for Free Bingo becoming Super Free Bingo courtesy of Ladbrokes Bingo!
By spending that extra 1p, youll get access to £60 prize pools for the same game! That’s £10 for our 1-line prize, £20 for our 2-line prize & £30 for the Full house prize! And if that wasnt enough, we are giving ALL our winners (via Superbooks or the free tickets) the chance to win yet more Super Free Bingo!
Were not quite sure whether its a “thanks for sticking with us whilst the football has been on” or a “well done, youve made it through the other side of the tournament to mid-July” (!), but every Full house prize winner during a game of World Cup Super Free Bingo (whether they buy a Superbooks ticket or not) will win an entry into one of our private bingo rooms for an exclusive night of Super Free Bingo on Friday, 16th July! The games will take place between 8:30pm – 10:24pm!
Friday 16th Julys session of Super FREE BINGO will offer all winners the chance to win yet more £30 prize pools! And, just as through the World Cup, Superbooks tickets will be available to multiply that prize up to £60 per game! To remind you, that’s £10 for our 1-line prize, £20 for our 2-line prize & £30 for the Full house prize! Were confident that you wont find an offer like this anywhere else in the Bingo industry for the duration of the 2010 World Cup, so get across to Ladbrokes Bingo now for your chance to win BIG with Super Free Bingo!