In my previous post I had posted a fake lottery scam. Now I intend to guide the readers about ways to detecting  fraud. Some of most common clues that one will notice in such scams

• Did you participate ? If your answer is No then in no probability such a lottery would be genuine where you get information only after winning. One should ask him/her-self as how could he/she win? There exist nothing such as “Computer ballot” or “computer draw system” of emails.
• EMAIL notification: Real lotteries publish their results on a common forum but do not contact individually by sending unsolicited mails. I haven’t come across a single person who has been notified by such mails and has also received the money though I know of several having received such mails.  Usually the ticket holder notifies the lottery post winning the lottery. Hence, ALL emails that say you won are nothing but scams!
• Sent from or return mail to be sent to a free email account: The return email addresses are typically free web-mail service Yahoo, Excite or Hotmail, AIM, Gmail, and other free email accounts.
• Originating email domain not owned by lottery sponsor: I have seen mails originating from domains not owned by typical lottery sponsors like Microsoft or other reputed name used in the such scam mails. WHOIS query on the domain own can reveal the real owner of the domain.
• Free winnings: Genuine lotteries never require payments of any type except taxes levied by government, unless explicitly mentioned in terms and condition at the time of participating, to collect winnings.
• Government approval: Lottery’s operated neither government nor government-authorized organization can't be a legitimate for sure.
• Warning not to disclose: "For security reasons" recipient is requested not to disclose anything about lottery. Which lottery system works in anonymity in real life? None. Rather lotteries thrive on publicity! Hence, such mails ought to be fake or bogus.
• Grammatical Errors: Typically I have observed lot of typo errors, grammatically incorrect sentences, punctuations in the such emails , strange syntax and phrasing and loads of misspellings.

I hope this post was informative to you and I would like to Thank you for reading.