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UK National Lottery Scams:
Example:
British National Lottery British Gaming Board
"Mr. Kings Robert", "Sir Steven Smith"
Have you received an email from "Mr. Kings Robert" at
the "British National Lottery British Gaming Board" telling you that you won the a prize and to contact "Sir Steven Smith"
or "Mr. Richard James"?
It is a scam.
There are only two legal large 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,
see this page to find out
what happens next!
Other resources:
Also
In the UK, call the hotline at 020 7211 8111 to check or report lottery scams.
There are many other signs that this is a fraud that we have
highlighted in the email below,
typically including one or more of these:
-
Email address ballot: There is no such thing as a
"computer ballot system" or "computer email draw". No one, not even
Microsoft has a database of email addresses of the type or magnitude they
suggest.
-
Terrible spelling, punctuation, syntax and grammar - Scammers
apparently don't know how to use spell checkers. We assume they
dropped out of school before that class. They use almost random
CapItaLiZAtion and often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to
be "22nd". Real lotteries proofread their emails and use people
who can write above the 3rd grade level.
-
Using free email account: The scammer is writing to
you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, AIM, Gmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization
would use its own email, its own domain and website?
-
Keep Confidential - Real lotteries THRIVE on
publicity - they don't want you to keep anything secret - the publicity
causes people to buy more tickets. there is NO risk of "double claiming"
because they can validate where the ticket numbers were sold. The scammer
want you to keep quiet because they don't want the police or
ConsumerFraudreporting to hear about them!
-
Email notification: NO REAL LOTTERY SENDS AN EMAIL TO
NOTIFY WINNERS. Period. Full-stop. End of story. There mere fact
ALONE that you received an email saying you won a lottery is proof that it
is a scam.
-
Courier / delivery charges are high due to Hardcover insurance Policy
- If you respond to them, you will usually receive an email telling you you
must pay delivery charges. First, as we mentioned earlier, no winner would ever have to pay delivery
charges in a real lottery, sweepstakes or promotion. Secondly, there
is no such thing as "hardcover insurance policies" . Go search in Google and
see if you can find a definition for it!
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Actual scam email (example - the scammers constantly change
names, dates and addresses!):
Email #1
On
behalf of the Claims Department and Members of Staff of the British
Gaming Board I will Like to Congratulate you on your Lottery Winning
as you have won yourself One Million Eight Hundred AND Fifty Six
Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Two Pound (£1,856,652).
You have won as a result of random picking of emails, your email
addres(
******@******) were
selected among others and five of these emails including yours was
selected at random, which substiquently won you a total cash prize
of One Million Eight Hundred AND Fifty Six Thousand, Six Hundred and
Fifty Two Pound (£1,856,652).from the British Gaming Board, The
Official Sponsor of the BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY.
The
Online raffle draw which made you the winner of this lottery is the
annual draw that is been conducted Once in a year in the British
National lottery Office, This is to Enhance E-comerce and Trading as
the Chief Executive Officer of the
Microsoft Company
have once adviced that Lottery Company should start Online draw by taking
Internet into another exciting dimension of Life. It is in view of
this that the British National Lottery, ( a renowned Lottery Company
In the United Kingdom decided to start what is known to be the
Online Lottery draw making them a stakeholder in this development
that is highly related and Useful to Mankind.
To continue the Verification of your winnings, You are expected
to fill in the FUND RELEASE VERIFICATION FORM (by clicking on reply
of your mail box and filing the required
informations) and submit
via email to your claims officer and so it can be file in for The
Remittance of your Winnings.
Once
Again Congratulation!!! and We Hope to hear from you soonest.
PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM:
Ref
Number:
Batch Number:
DETAILS OF BENEFICIARY :
1.Full Names: (Surname First):
2.Address:
3.Country:
4.Telephone:
5.Gender:
6.Marital Status:
7.Age:
8.Occupation:
9.Email Address:
10.Amount Won:
PARENTIAL DETAILS:(OPTIONAL)
1.Mothers Name:
2.Nationality:
3.Age (if still alive):
4.Telephone:
5.Address:
NB:
For instant payment, this payment processing form must be filled and
send back to the BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
Fudiciary Agent.
****************************
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, LONDON.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNER You are a winner of the
UK
National Lottery Online Promo Programme that was held on 13th
of march, 2006..You have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of
£1,856,652 (One Million Eight Hundred AND Fifty Six Thousand, Six
Hundred and Fifty Two Pound
Please contact:
Mr. Kings Robert
Tel: +44-703-190-855 or+44-703-190-4883
Email: mr.robert_claimsdept0010@yahoo.co.uk
Sir Steven Smith
_________________________________________________________________
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Email #2 (Reply from the scammer after the victim, who we call John Smith,
replied)
30Th
March,
2007.
Dear
John
Smith,
Compliments of the day to
you.
Below is an attached copy of your parcel delivery invoice from our
dispatch
department. Your are expected to download it and get back to
us.
Attached to your
parcel is the
original copy of your
winning
certificate, together with a covering document (Money Laundering
protection and Letter of Affidavit for Claims) from the British
government
stating
that the money was obtained legally through their National Lottery
along
side
your cheque.
This
means that you have been officially cleared for payment by the
Verifications Dept. at the headquarters of the UK National Lottery.
Note
that your parcel is
bonded
and protected by a hardcover insurance policy, which makes it
impossible
to make
any deduction before it is remitted to you. This means that our
courier
charges
cannot be deducted from the prize. This is in accordance with
section(13)1n of the National Gambling Act as adopted in 1993 and
amended on 3rd
July
1996 by the Constitutional Assembly, this is to protect winners and
to
avoid
misappropriation of funds.
MR. RICHARD JAMES, (CUSTOMER SERVICE DEPARTMENT)
Please
do
call customer service line for confirmation.
Phone
number:+44-701-421-8716
+44-701-194-7379
Email:info_dynamicdispatchcourierservi@yahoo.co.uk
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