Beware of 2010 Fifa ‘lotteries’

January 13, 2008

World football governing body Fifa has issued a warning about e-mails that refer to the 2010 Fifa World Cup and inform recipients that they have been selected as prize winners in a lottery draw.

“Many of these e-mails appear to be official and most of them ask recipients to provide their personal details, including bank account information, in order to claim the prize money,” Fifa said in a statement on its website in December.

Fifa said that all such lotteries - which claim to be organized on behalf of, or in association with, Fifa and/or the 2010 local organizing committee - “have no connection with or authorization from Fifa and are in no way related to the 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa.”

Any e-mails concerning lottery draws or cash prizes should be treated with “suspicion and extreme caution”, Fifa said, urging people not to provide any personal or financial details if requested to do so.

Source: SouthAfrica.info