Is this real? Did I just strike it rich!?

[SuperWifey]

I just checked my e-mail and there was this message titled Congratulations You Have Won! from SAFA (whatever that stands for) normally I do not fall for these types of things, I was just wondering if I should e-mail back? This is what the e-mail said:

Congratulations. The South African football association, safa is proud to inform you that you have just won Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$2.500, 000.00).


This lottery is sponsored by South African football association, safa with fifty-six, 56 cooperate bodies.South Africa will be hosting the soccer world cup in the year 2010.this will be the first ever World Cup to be held in the continent of Africa. And we are celebrating this golden opportunity with this lottery.


We are also using this lottery to create awareness towards the hosting of the world cup in 2010 in South Africa.Don?t be surprise that you are one of our winners. The aims of this lottery are to surprise our winners.
However no previous notification is given before your email address was picked for this lottery. Generally email address are picked, the draws are processed by the computer through a special program that is special designed for this lottery, the program is known as Random Access Program (RAP)

CLAIMING OF PRIZE

To claim your cash prize please contact the lottery manager MR. MIKE SPHIWE immediately with the following information:

Contact: MR. MIKE SPHIWE
Email: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].hk

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 double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

Congratulations!!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Joy Charlotte
Promotions manager
World cup 2010
South Africa

[BrianF]

Do NOT, under ANY circumstances email them..!!!

At the best, you will confirm your email address to spammers, AND confirm that not only is your email address valid, but you actually READ your spam.

2nd it is a SCAM designed to entice you to send them money as a processing fee etc...

All they want is your bank account information and/or cash.

[beach_babe_honey]

SPAM

[vikingnoise]

You can never win a lottery you didn't enter. Also, with 56 corporate sponsors, you'd think there would be an actually SAFA email account and website mentioned.

Scam.

[HeRMoSaCAli]

Are you kidding me? South Africa.. is this written by 5th graders?

Don't fall for it.

[Hothotmama]

You and 1 billion other lucky winners.
Hahahaha!
They will ask for info and money, use your info to make fake I.D.'s and possibly get you into credit or legal trouble.

[Fed-up]

Another take off on an old theme.
I have been chosen to inherit untold millions from people that died in Africa and have won several European lotteries that I never entered.
Funny I still have to work for a living.
You realize if you contact them they will need your bank account and personal information. Just to be sure you are the person they are giving all this money away to and to be sure they send it to the right account.
You'll get a surprise if you contact them...you'll suddenly acquire a lot of new debt.

[TameBeast]

http://dumbscams.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/fromsouth-africa-national-lottery/

http://419.bittenus.com/lotteries/ConfederationofAfricanFootball.htm

http://www.419legal.org/lottery-scam-letter-archives/8431-south-africa-2010-world-cup-lottery.html

http://www.urgentmessage.org/highlyconfidential/_l12800.html

[SUZANNES]

Hah, a South African Organization with a HONG KONG domain prefix...?

[godsdaughter283]

DO NOT ANSWER THIS EMAIL!!!!! IT'S A HUGE SCAM!!!! PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SENDING ME THOSE THINGS FOR A LONG TIME NOW!! SPAM IT!!