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Sample Email Scams
Involving the British National Lottery
THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO
PROGRAMME
"Sir Steven Smith", "Mrs Deborah White"
"THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME" is another UK National Lottery Scam. Claiming to be the
"online version", the scammer will send you an email from a fictitious person like
"Sir Steven Smith" and tell you to contact another fictitious person "Mrs Deborah White" (their "claims
processor" or "fiduciary agent"). Of course, you cannot win ANY real lottery
without buying a ticket. There is no such thing as a "computer draw system" and
your email address cannot
and will never win any lottery! The names, "Sir Steven Smith", "Mrs Deborah White", may
be different; they keep changing them to con you!
Of course, there are only two legal lotteries in Britain,
the National Lottery
and
the Monday Lottery,
anyway, and they do
NOT use email to notify winners. Below is a scam email actually received.
DO NOT reply to any emails you receive that claim 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.
For your education and entertainment, we have
highlighted some of the obvious
clues that this is a scam.
In the UK, call the hotline at 020 7211 8111 to check or report lottery scams.
Fraud Example
From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:22 AM
Subject: CONGRATULATION ===YOU HAVE WON £100,983.00 !!!
THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, LONDON.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Dear Winner
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today, 13th of March
2007, of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME, held on the
20th of February, 2007.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky
numbers:01-14-21-3-35-48, and a bonus number of 24 which subsequently won you
the lottery in the second category. You have therefore been approved to claim a
total sum of £100,983.00 in cash credited to KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a
total cash prize of £100,983.00 shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners
in this category.
All participants of this online
promotion programme were selected randomly from numerous World Wide Web sites
through computer draw system and extracted from close to 125,000 unions.
Your assigned claims agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him via electronic mail(email).
PROCEDURES FOR CLAIMS
NON UK RESIDENT WINNERS ARE HOWEVER REQUESTED TO CONTACT THE FIDUCIARY AGENT
ATTACHED TO DRAW ASAP UK LOTTERY{CLAIMS DEPT}
FIDUCIARY AGENT: Mrs Deborah White
EMAIL:
ukclaimsagent_deborahwhite@yahoo.co.uk
VERIFICATION FORM
TO AUTHENTICATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS FROM YOUR WEBMAIL PROVIDER AND RECORD
PURPOSES,WE DO REQUIRE YOU TO SEND THESE
INFORMATION TO US ASAP
FULL NAME:
WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS:
FULL ADDRESS:
SEX:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
TEL:
COUNTRY:
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program. Thank you
for being part of our online promotional lottery program.
Yours Truly,
Sir Steven Smith.
Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme)
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