Late yesterday, I received an email that told me that I was the lucky winner of the "2010 WORLD CUP AWARD". Aside from the fact that it is very unlikely that any organization would notify the winner of $2,000,000 U.S. by email, there are a few glaring misspellings that would not be present in any official notification. This message is essentially just another version of the Canada Lottery Scam that I posted about earlier this week.

Here is the contents of the email I received. (All the misspelled words are displayed using bold italics.)

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From: "2010 WORLD CUP AWARD" <onlineza6@yahoo.co.in>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:07 PM
Subject: NOTIFICATION OF $2 Million USD WINNING AWARD

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
MR.FRANK KHUMALO EUROPEAN/UK/S.A.UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS BID SOUTH
AFRICA 2010 WORLD CUP LOTTERY AWARD DEPARTMENT.UNITED KINGDOM/SOUTH AFRICA
(Customer Services)

Contact : MR. STEPHEN VALE
TEL: + 27-839470181
EMAIL :claimingza@sify.com

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily annouce to you the draw of South African 2010 World Cup Bid
Lottery Award International programs held in U.K your "email address" was
attached to ticket number;B9665 75604546 199 serial number 97560 This
batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 60/84/27/17/36, bonus number
2,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

Your name have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
US$2,000.000.00(Two million United States Dollars) in cash credited to
file KPC/9030108308/03 .This is from a total cash prize of US
$30,000,000.00 (Thirty million United States dollars) shared among the
first 200 lucky winners in this category world-wide.

All participants "email address" were selected through a computer
balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand names from Canada,
Australia,United States,Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as
part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by some multinational companies
and some other EU governmental personalities part of their social
responsibility to promote South African 2010 world cup award. the citizens
in the communities where they have operational base.

To process your claims you are hereby advice to contact the Claim Agent
immediatly with this information:

NAME:..................................
ADDRESS:...............................
NATIONALITY:...........................
SEX:...................................
AGE:...................................
PRIVATE PHONE/MOBILE NO:..........................
PRIVATE FAX NO:...................................
OCCUPATION:............................
COMPANY:...............................
BATCH/WINNING NUMNBER:............................................

The lottery program took place to promote South African 2010 world cup
award.

Please you are advised to file for your claim immediately through our
Agent in South Africa for the claim of your prize. Call him on the phone
immediately you received this message because you stand a risk of loosing
the prize if you fail to claim within one month from the day you received
this notification.

His contact details are as follows...

CONTCAT YOUR CLAIMING AGENT:

Contact : MR.STEPHEN VALE
TEL: + 27-839470181
EMAIL: claimingza_at_sify.com

PLEASE YOU ARE ADVISE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMING AGENT FIRST ON PHONE,ALSO
FILL THE FORM AND FORWARD TO HIM.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize
released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid dual
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by
non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Congratulations on your winnings!!!

Yours faithfully,
MR.FRANK KHUMALO
Online Co-coordinator
EUROPEAN.UK .SOUTH AFRICAN UNION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS

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