This Lottery scam was submitted by a reader by mail a few weeks ago, but got stuck in one of my spam filters for a while. I rescued it just before emptying my Junk folder. R. Johnsson, who submitted the mail, writes that she wants me to publish it warn others. This is  a variation [...]

Even though my spam filters seem to block all lottery scams these days, my readers still receive them. Here’s one from The Holland Casino Lotto Promo Int, submitted to me through the comment system, by Georg Pétur from Island…

Since this summer, there has been reports about various SMS lottery scams, that are said to be originated in Sweden. Personally, I don’t really think they are. Even though they state an address for a Swedish Post Office Box in Gothenburg. Mark the spelling (not Gotenborg) as it is spelled in the sting mail. There [...]

Another Lottery scam rescued from my spam bucket. This one is even stamped as spam by the serverside junk filters. But it wasn’t certain enough to just send it into black space. This lottery scam actullay has a fun twist to it. If I breach the confidentiality, they will send all of my two and [...]

I went through my Junk folder before emptying the 10,000 junk mails that have been accumulating there, and guess what I found? Yes! A few more lottery notifications. If anyone finds a door marked EU Online Lottery and Gaming Corporation somewhere… Please prove me wrong.

I just cannot understand why scammers, and especially lottery scammers find it so difficult to format their sting mails properly. In my oppinion, presentation just has to be vital in a good scam. Transfer these scam emails to the offline world, think for a minute or two. If a rugged person who can hardly speak [...]

Usually, I edit out the worst formatting errors from lottery scam e-mails like the one below. But usually, they just have a few hard line breaks. This one though, is almost hopelessly malformated. And the subject line… Which legitimate lottery agent would write PLZ BE INFORM in the subject line of a lottery notification? Of [...]

A major mistake to avoid if you are a lottery scammer would be to send out the exact same mail more than once. Especially using the exact same ticket number (5647560054 188), the same serial number (5368/02) and even the same lucky numbers (50-18-22-24-32-33) more than once. Tonight when I received two emails with these [...]

Here we go again. Yet another time I’m disqualifying myself from a million Euro lottery cash price. A bogus cash price from a non-existent lottery announced by a scammer who’s after the petty cash he can pull in from bogus registration fees and courier services, that is. It’s amazing that I still get these scam [...]

Take a few seconds and try to imagine that one of these lottery notifications where actually legitimate. Imagine winning 2.5 million dollars from a e-mail collecting service that had harvested your e-mail address from the web, and then just wanted to hand out all that cash to you. Yeah. Pretty hard to believe, isn’t it? [...]

If there was indeed a company running a lottery called the 6 Ball Games Lottery handing out cash prizes of 2 million pounds, wouldn’t you think that they would have a functioning web site? Wouldn’t you expect them to send out their winning notifications from their own domain rather than from an msn.com address? And [...]

Nobody knows what went wrong when Promotion Director ”Alvaro Manuel Pablo” or agent Vincente Garcia where compilating and sending out this lottery scam spam. They only sent one mail, but they managed to repeat their message four times in the same e-mail. And it’s a lottery scam allright. It bears all the markers such as [...]

Again, I’ve won two million Euro lotteries in one day! Not bad. Even though the mail below asks me to keep this confidential, I’ll publish the winning notice. After all, it is nothing but a scam. One thing that keeps surprising me with these lottery scams is that they so often are sent to an [...]

If there was a ten-million Euro lottery, and you run it. Wouldn’t you see to it that all that played left there full name, phone number, nationality and country of recidence? I would! After all, that would be the only gain from running such a lottery. And even if you had 10,000,000 contestants, I’m not [...]

God knows I could use some cash right now, but this Award Winning Notification sure won’t help me. It’s a scam, and it is probably sent out to at least the 25,000 e-mail addresses mentioned in the mail. The really sad part about this mail is that this was sent to my pong email address, [...]

Wow! Yesterday it seems as if I actually won 990,513.00 Euro! Not, I’m afraid. The National Lottery AKA The UK International Lottery may or may not exist in real life, but if you received a mail like the one below, I’m afraid it’s nothing but an e-mail lottery scam. 

It’s been a while since I last won 750,000 dollars, but today it looks as if my luck changed again… Actually, this email is better worded than any lottery scam I have received before. Therefore, if you got one of these, and had enough wits to do a search before responding, calm down. It’s all [...]

I’m wondering if how to take the fact that I, during the last couple of days have received a few lottery mails where the scammers actually seem to know my name. Alas, only my first name, since they want me to send in my full name, my phone and fax nummer as well as my [...]

Nowdays, I don’t publish every single lottery scam I receive. It’s a sad fact, but this site would look way to boring if I did. These iScams just don’t have enough ingenuity and originality to be worth publishing. But hey, I just have to pop the question: Who would even start thinking the below mail [...]