Check Release Status Notification

text:

CHECK RELEASE STATUS NOTIFICATION
<name removed for security reasons>, PCC, a division of PNI, has awarded over seventy-
five million in US dollars to hundreds of thousands of fortunate
recipients in 41 countries; creating fourteen millionaires and
three ten million US dollar winners. PNI, a sponsor of online
sweepstakes, gives away awards of amounts up to ten million US
dollars daily. <name removed for security reasons> OF London, review the
official listing below to see if you are qualified to receive a
check, upon proper submission in accordance with sponsor rules.


Has anyone else had one of these telling them they have won $1,000,000

If you click on the "click here to claim" youare taken to a registration site for free lotto (not free at $9.99 per month though.

Obviously I assume this is some scam to get people to register but that aside has anyone paid the subscription and played the lotto? Is it genuine in that senswe at least?

Appreciate your thoughts!

[Daneel]

If you mean the link is for freelotto.com, then that is something of a grey area. It may not be technically illegal, but still quite deserving of the title "scam" (in my own personal opinion).

This posting doesn't make any sense, like all lottery scams. They couldn't possibly give out that much money if noone buys tickets. Definitely some type of scam, even if you signed up for it your chances would probably be much lower than with any real lottery, if there is a chance to win anything at all. Once again, if it sounds too good to be true, it is

I received such a notification a few days ago and I went in their web-page. I looked up the names of a few winners. I called 3 of them one in UK two in USA. They all got paid. But the 1 million comes in 25 installments so they all have received their 1st payment of 40.000 USD.

There is another problem and that is they they send emails phishing for players and if you read the email careful they do not write that you have won, but that you are elligible to win (if you play the right numbers). In this way they get players.

The 3rd problem is that there is a Nigerian chain in Europe who write to people pretending they are from Freelotto in USA. Then they say that they will send you the parcel with cash money by mail and that the parcel must be insured by something like 400-500USD and that you must pay in advance. In this way you either never get the parcel or it arrives empty.

The last one run from UK is identity theft. They just take your name and adress and paste it on a false passport and you will have some crook somewhere in the world travelling in your name.

But regading Freelotto they seem to pay, but they do not follow spam and advertiement rules.

[Nyla]

Assuming these winners are indeed genuine winners, and also assuming they eventually receive all installments in full, that is still incredibly poor odds of winning. The freelotto.com site has been in operation since 1996. That's ten years. State and national lotteries, which also have astronomical odds of winning a prize in the millions, have produced far more millionaires in that same time period. In order to win a freelotto prize, you must match 6 numbers out of 54. The odds of doing that are roughly 1 in 4,591,496,000 if my my calculator didn't fail me. Compare that to a sanctioned state lottery. The estimated odds for winning the top 6 of 6 grand prize are approximately 1 in 5,245,786 with 42 numbers to choose from. Since freelotto.com is technically a sweepstakes, not a lottery they are not overseen by lottery boards or bound by lottery regulations.

The dozens of complaints I've found claiming that Freelotto continues billing after you have cancelled the service would also make me very, very wary of giving them my credit card number. Not to mention, I think it would not be worth my time to deal with upwards of 60 marketing emails per day from PlasmaNet. Even with a spam filter catching them. The marketing emails are often similarly deceptive. Some of them are of the "You have won a prize, it's an unclaimed package!" sort. When you read the fine print, it is not a sweepstakes, but a chance to purchase a mystery package of merchandise. The "merchandise" is, to put it bluntly, overpriced and mostly worthless.

I would also be interested in hearing if all of these winners were subscribers to the pay service. I note that the winner currently listed on Freelotto's site was, at least according to a news story I located. When a company is deceptive in its advertising methods and neglects to conform to anti-spam regulations, I personally have a very difficult time believing they are completely ethical in the way they operate their business. If you are untrustworthy in small things, you tend to be untrustworthy in the big things.

If freelotto.com were sending these advertisements by postal mail, they would be opening themselves up to multi-million dollar settlements for deceptive advertising. Several Attorney Generals won settlements against Publishers Clearing House for similarly worded "you may already be a winner" advertisements masquerading as notices.

how i will get the check.what is that mean by PIN verification.

[FW Admin]

Originally Posted by syz

how i will get the check.what is that mean by PIN verification.

To what are you referring? Is your question related to this topic?

[Nyla]

Originally Posted by syz

how i will get the check.what is that mean by PIN verification.

If you mean your Freelotto check, then I can assure you, you will not be receiving a check, because you haven't won.

Please read the following post:
http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/...ead.php?t=5624

DEAR FRAUDWATCHERS,
im jessie francisco saludes from Philippines on december 2nd 2006 i received a mail from freelotto saying i'm won on december 2nd 2006
and i play for free for the saying of free lotto is free?

next is every day i recieved an email from freelotto PlasmaNet,Inc.
and Mr.Keven J.Aronin saying im 18th winner and follow the rule and regulation
of free lotto.
i recieved a winner affidavit on december 2006 saying fill the affidavit and notiarize.on that time i dont have an account.or ATM no:?
thats why now i want to know what is real the true is FRAUDWATCHER ORG.HAVE to help my problems?
i want to know yet?
THANKS.

VERY TRUELY YOURS,
jessie saludes from
brgy.caltayan La Paz,Leyte
Philippines

Originally Posted by jessie

i recieved a winner affidavit on december 2006 saying fill the affidavit and notiarize.

That's not a FREELOTTO.COM email, it is a fake lottery pretending to be freelotto. Please do not pay any requested fees, it is a scam.

Read here => How To Recognize Lottery Scams