Lottery Scams

South Africans are looking forward to the 2010 world cup, but I must also mention that many scams are coming up with ways to corn money out of you. Be wary not to get too excited if you receive an email relating to a lottery for 2010: It isprobably from another sly scammer out to take your hard-earned cash.If you get an email claiming that you’ve won millions in the 2010 World Cup lottery draw, don’t buy into it.How it worksbasically you get an email that says you’ve won the lottery and the scammers issue you with a certificate supposedly verifying this prize and promising big pay-outs.Then you’re asked to fill in a couple of forms online so you can claim the winnings. This includes your country, name, bank account to transfer this money to. But beware! By doing this you are giving out your important personal details!

After this, the scammers will tellyou how to go about collecting your cash – but they first require several upfront payments before they release the money to you.As you must have recognized from our previous scam warnings, this is a clear warning light that the whole thing is a farce. The National Lottery does not require payment in order to receive winnings, so you would never have to go through this procedure with a genuine lottery win.

Don’t fall into this trap! Follow my 5 tipsThis scam will be easier for you to spot if you keep the following pointers in mind:

1. There are only three legal lottery games available in South Africa at the moment: Lotto, Wina Manje Scratch Card and SportStake. If your email is not related to these, it’s definitely a fake.

2. If you have not knowingly entered any lottery jackpots, you cannot win anything from the SA lottery, because our legislation doesn’t allow the issue of free tickets.

3. The National Lotteries Board is the only stateauthorised group that oversees the national lottery in South Africa. So if you get an email with overseas contact details, know that it must be false because foreigners cannot distribute winnings on the SA lottery system.

4. The licence to govern the National Lottery belongs exclusively to Gidani. If their information and contact details are not somewhere on the email, take it as a scam.

5. And as I’ve said before, if the email doesn’t address you by name, be very cautious before replying to it.

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This is the festive sesson we are approuching and many people will be having extra cash to spare. You also have to remember that there are those scandols that you can make more money if you buy this or that product.

Often times it is not real. Well we are going to reveal all of those here in the next few days.