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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 The South Africa National Lottery
Play The South Africa National Lottery
South Africa is the land of gold and diamonds and is also home to Nobel Prize winner Nelson Mandela. South Africa also has the most lucrative lottery on the African continent. The S African National Lottery was launched in 2000 making it one of the youngest lotteries anywhere. The lottery is the most popular form of gambling in the country and sells an astounding five million lottery tickets every week. The first day tickets for the National lottery were available 80,000 were sold and during the first three weeks of operation R70 million ($9,597,402.39 USD) worth of lottery tickets were sold.
The South Africa lottery offers players a variety of games. Lotto 6/49 is South Africa’s version of the classic 6/49 lottery games found in many countries. Players select six numbers from 1 through 49. National lottery retailers offer players a quick pick option for players who wish to have their numbers selected by a random number generator. Many South Africans use a variety of occult sciences to select their lottery numbers and believe it or not smoking vulture brains is used by many as a way to see into the future and pick winning lottery numbers. Lotto 6/49 has a ‘Lotto Plus’ option available. For an extra fee the player can play the original lotto 6/49 ticket twice. The National Lottery also offers Powerball similar to the American game.
SportsStake is another popular National Lottery game. Players try to determine the outcome of 12 pre selected football matches in England, South Africa and other countries where football is popular. For each game the player must determine of the match will result in a home win, away win or a draw. To win players must accurately predict the outcome of all 12 games. Players can win lesser prizes with 10 or 11 correct predictions.
Like most lotteries the South Africa National Lottery offers various instant win, or scratch off games. The top prize for scratch off games is R100,000. ($13,636.15 USD) Tickets for scratch off games cost R2 through R5. ($0.272723 USD–$0.681807 USD) At present the official National Lottery website does not sell online lottery tickets but tickets for the S African National Lottery may be purchased online by ticket brokers. Results for the National Lottery may be checked at the official National Lottery website along with detailed instructions for each game. The South Africa National Lottery supports various charities and 34% of all lottery generated revenue is paid into a central charitable distribution fund.