Many people have received emails claiming that they have won a lottery they have never entered. These take on myriad forms, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, BMW, Coca Cola, the BBC and many other companies and organisations have been, and continue to be impersonated in these nefarious scams.
Victims are told that that it is possible to win a lottery they never entered for a variety of reasons, their email address was entered automatically or random email addresses were selected for entry, for example. But in order to claim the large cash prize waiting for them they need to pay a fee first.
No legitimate lottery ever demands or requires a fee to be paid in order to collect any winnings.
So with that in mind, lets look at http://www.usalotterynews.blogspot.com/
The first thing wrong with this blog, is the fact that it is a blog, a legitimate lottery company handing out large cash prizes would have it's own domain, because it would easily be able to afford one.
The second is that it's clearly stolen it's logo from the UK National Lottery.
Third, the author has bad English, indicative that the author of this is not American.
Fourth, as I said above, this blog claims that your email address can win a lottery.
Fifth, the discrepancy between first posting date and copyright can't possibly be reconciled, even if the logo wasn't stolen.
All this is obvious just by quickly looking at the blog, without even searching for this "United State Lottery Board of Directors", which doesn't exist.
Despite continuing to report this fraudulent blog to Google since April 2014, including reporting alongside blogs that do fit Googles abuse form and asking them to also look at this, it's been allowed to continue to lend a thin veneer of respectability to the scammers behind this blog and assist them in defrauding the public.
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