Today, I received and email that told me that I was the lucky winner in a Canadian Lottery drawing. Imagine my surprise since I never entered a Canadian Lottery and in fact haven't been to Canada since the early 1980's. Of course this is a scam email.

Here are couple of write ups on this scam:
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscamCanadaSoccer.php
http://www.scamdex.com/HYPMAIL/0709/35043.php

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Click the picture to see an image of the email in question.

Here are the contents of the email I recieved:

From: Canada Board
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:36 PM
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION

Congratulations!

Your email is among the 10 lucky winners’ that won USD$1,500,000.00. Winning No:12 13 17 34 40 47 bonus No.9,in the just concluded draw held to promote South African 2010 World Cup, sponsored by Canada Governments. For quick and urgent release of your fund, please contact our corresponding Agent in South Africa immediately, Call Mrs. Grace Ndlovu, Tel+27-83-760-2909.Or email her on (gracendlovu2@hotmail.com) and provide the below information to her.

Full Name
A copy of identity
Home address
Private telephone and fax
Occupation
Age
Sex
Marital status

Yours Sincerely,
Ms. Elizabeth Kerry
Email:ekerry.canadaboard@canada.com
Winning numbers for Sat Oct 27,2007 draw, before you send us email confirm your winning numbers on our website: ww_.canada.com/findit/lotteries/results.aspx?id=6 Confirm under Lotto 6/49

If you receive a message like this, don't call any of the numbers, don't reply to it, just deleted it.