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Sample Email Scams
Involving the British National Lottery
THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO
PROGRAMME
"Sir Steven Smith", "MR. LEWIS JNR"
"THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY" 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 "MR. LEWIS JNR" (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", "MR. LEWIS JNR", 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
Mon Apr 21
11:13:08 2008
From: British National Lottery <info@Lottery.com>
Reply-To:
ukclaims_5@hotmail.com
Subject: ATTENTION...FINAL NOTICE
28 Tan Field Road,
Croydon,London.
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
Dear Selected winner,
This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash Price of
£753,437.00 (Seven Hundred and Fifty Three Thousand, Four Hundred and Thirty
Seven
Pound Sterling) in cash.from International programme held on the 29th of
September 2007 in the United Kindom.
The selection process was carried out
through random selection in our
computerised email selection system from a database of over 250,000 email
addresses
drawn from all the continents of the world which your email was among the first
ten (10) lucky winners.
Contact the verification department by providing your
Reference Number UK/9420X2/68.
You are also advised to provide him with the under listed informations.
1.Name in full.
2.Address in full.
3.Nationality & Present Country.
4.Age.
5.Occupation.
6.Phone /Fax /Sex.
CONTACT
PERSON: MR. LEWIS JNR
EMAIL:ukclaims_5@hotmail.com
Yours
Truly,
Sir Steven Smith Co-Coordinator (Online Promo Programme).
Message headers:
From British National Lottery Mon Apr 21 11:13:08 2008
Return-Path: <info@lottery.com>
Authentication-Results: mta201.mail.mud.yahoo.com from=Lottery.com;
domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 199.120.21.59 (EHLO barracuda2.coastal.edu) (199.120.21.59)
by mta201.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:02:31 -0700
Received: from webmail.coastal.edu (webmail.coastal.edu [199.120.21.43])
by barracuda2.coastal.edu (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP
id F395622EAC3; Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:13:09 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from webmail.coastal.edu (webmail.coastal.edu [199.120.21.43]) by
barracuda2.coastal.edu with ESMTP id ObIZVT6qry7CptSA; Mon, 21 Apr 2008
14:13:09 -0400 (EDT)
Received: (from
apache@localhost)
by webmail.coastal.edu (8.12.11/8.13.1/Submit) id m3LIDCiP015093;
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:13:12 -0400
Received: from 80.255.59.243 ([80.255.59.243])
by webmail.coastal.edu (IMP) with HTTP
for <sabush@mail.coastal.edu>;
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:13:08 -0400
Message-ID: <1208801588.480cd934baf5e@webmail.coastal.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:13:08 -0400
From: British National Lottery <info@Lottery.com>
Reply-To:
ukclaims_5@hotmail.com
Subject: ATTENTION...FINAL NOTICE
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
User-Agent: Internet MeBritish National Lottery,
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