Sample Email Scams Involving the British National Lottery

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Sample Email Scams Involving the British National Lottery - Page 8

How to Recognize Them and What To Do If You Receive One

There are only two legal lotteries in Britain, the National Lottery and the Monday Lottery, and they do NOT use email to notify winners. Below are scam emails actually received.

DO NOT reply to any emails you receive saying that you have won a lottery that you did not enter. They are frauds. You will lose your money. There is no "free lunch"; don't be foolish and believe a scam! We can not say it any more plainly: YOU WILL NOT BE NOTIFIED BY EMAIL BY ANY LEGITIMATE LOTTERY THAT YOU WON A PRIZE. If you do receive such an email, it IS a fraud, do not reply to it! If you DID reply to one, click here to see what you will likely receive back.

In the UK, call the hotline at 020 7211 8111 to check or report lottery scams.

Fraud Example 11

This one looks more authentic. Notice how they have used a number of images and links from the real UK National Lottery website to make the email looks more realistic. Some giveaways that it is a fake, besides the mere use of email to notify (never done by legitimate lotteries) are the yahoo email address to contact them and stating that Microsoft is a sponsor (of course, they are NOT).

The U.K. National Lottery
12 Bridge Street,
Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.

Customer Service/Claims Department

Ref: Uk/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

Dear Award Winner,

                     WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (Draw #06/1056) of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International Program held on 14th 0ctober 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600546 184 with Serial number 5364/08 drew the lucky numbers below:

Which subsequently made you one of the lucky dip prizes winners.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of �2,550,102.00 (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWO BRITISH POUNDS ) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of �7,650,306.00 (SEVEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND SIX BRITISH POUNDS), shared amongst the THREE (3) lucky winners in this category.

Draw 1056 29TH MAY 06 Jackpot

�7,650,306

NUMBER OF MATCHES No OF WINNERS �s PER WINNER TOTAL

Match 6 3 �2,550,102 �7,650,306

Match 5 plus bonus 10 �160,047 �1,600,470

Match 5 579 �1,727 �999,933

Match 4 37711 �58 �2,187,238

Match 3 731757 �10 �7,317,570

Totals 770060 �1,755,517

All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 1,000,000 unions, associations,and corporate bodies that are listed online.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your �2,550,102.00 (TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWO BRITISH POUNDS ) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Please be warned !!!

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent vian email:

MR.DOLPHIN WALKER
Claims Department
The UKNL Foundation
Email: ukclaimingagencydept@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: +(44)703 1818385


with the following vital information:

Full Names:...................................................................

Physical Address:......................................................

Nationality:............................... City............................

Profession:....................................................................

Company...................................................

Age:................................................................................

Sex:...............................................................................

Marital status:..........................................................

Winning numbers:..................................................

Batch number:........................................................

Amount won:..................................

Phone number{land/mobile}:.........................................

Mode of payment (a) Cheque (b) certified Draft (c)bank to bank transfer,if chosen option (c) provide account details below

......................................................................

......................................................................

....................................................................

so that he can commence the process of your funds remittance.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned!!

Once again congratulations from the entire staff of the U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Warm regards,

CHRIS WHYTE.

Online Coordinator for the U.K. National Lottery.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
COPYRIGHT � 2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED





Mrs. Basheera Abubakar             Mrs. Caro Smith

(Co-coordinator).                                    (Secretary)



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MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK,             MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,

MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA,           MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.

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