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Scams Involving the British National Lottery
How to
Recognize Them and What To Do If You Receive One
There are only two legal large* lotteries in Britain,
the National Lottery
and the Monday Lottery
(an online lottery),
and neither uses email to notify winners. See sample emails (links at left or
further down this page) for examples of scam UK lottery emails.
All lotteries, including foreign lotteries operating in Great Britain, are
unlawful in the UK (except those provided for by the 1976 Lotteries and
Amusements Act; meaning the government run National Lottery). Note: in the UK, call the
hotline at 020 7211 8111 to check or report lottery scams.
Some of these lottery schemes say that the Gaming Board for Great Britain has
approved them, but this is not true. The Gaming Board has a list of these
companies and lotteries on its
website, and warns people not to take part in them.
If you have not
purchased a ticket for the UK National Lottery, you cannot have won a prize, and
you should treat the email with absolute caution.
The following points are some things to look for in order to identify
a fraudulent UK National Lottery winning notification email:
- The UK National Lottery does NOT tell players how much they've
won in an email; and
- The UK National Lottery does NOT ask for any Player
information like name, address or bank details on an email.
- If the email says ‘Winning Notification’ or ‘Lottery Sweep Stake’ in the
text, the email you’ve received is definitely not from UK National Lottery;
When the real UK National Lottery sends an email to your for OTHER reasons
(never a winning notification) they use only the following email addresses:
- admin@national—lottery.co.uk
- player@national—lottery.co.uk
- play@national—lottery.co.uk
- help@national—lottery.co.uk
- play@play.national—lottery.co.uk
They use only these addresses to send communication such as purchase
confirmations and rollover alerts. Again, the real UK National Lottery would
NEVER use a Yahoo, Hotmail, AIM, AOL or other email address to either send or
receive email!
* Very small charity-based lotteries are legal with a number of restrictions,
for legitimate charities. See the legal
guidance for small lotteries and the UK government paper
Lotteries and the Law. None of these would send you an email!
THE PITCH
They offer you something for nothing – such as:
- you've won a prize in a draw or a lottery (even though you haven't
entered one)
- an exclusive entry to a scheme that's a surefire way to make money
- a way to earn easy money by helping them get untold millions out of
their country
- the chance to join an investment scheme that will make you huge amounts
of money; and so on.
There are hundreds of examples but we can all protect ourselves by being
skeptical. Is it likely that someone you don't know, who has contacted you out
of the blue, will give you something for nothing?
THE STING
They'll ask you to:
- send money up front − an administration fee or tax, the list is endless
but its always a ruse to get you to give them money
- give them your bank details or other personal details
- ring a premium rate number (all UK premium rate numbers start with 090)
- buy something to get your prize.
They will lie to you and give you what seem to be good reasons why you should
do what they say. They will answer all your objections.
Don't send any money or give any personal details to anyone until you've
checked them out and talked to a professional or family and friends.
If they ask you to do any of these things they're trying to cover their tracks
and get your money and it's likely to be a scam.
Other things to look out for
- they ask you to send money
- they give you a PO box number as their address
- they ask you not to tell anyone about the deal.
In the UK, call the hotline at 020 7211 8111 to check or report lottery scams.
Samples of Fraud Email "Winner Notification" Emails
CFR has plenty of examples of actual fraudulent emails sent out.
You can probably find the one you received in the list below!
-
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program,
"James Smith", "smithjames055@gmail.com"
-
British National
Lottery, "Sir. Latoya Nicole", "Mrs Shannon Maris"
-
UK National Lottery,
"Dr. Harry Raymond(Esq) ", "Paul Ferdinad"
-
The National
Lottery, Richard Reichlin, Hilary Scott
-
UK National Lottery,
"Barr. Owen Green", "ukclaimsdepartment008@live.com"
-
British Lottery,
"Rev. Norlan Davies", "Mr. Aston Smith"
-
The National Lottery,
"Sir Howard Coxx", "Mr.Watford Blair"
-
Game lot Group UK, organizers of The National Games Inc,
"Mrs.Christine Marthins", "Rev Danny White"
-
UK National Lottery,
"John A Edward", "john.edward123@yahoo.co.uk"
-
National Lottery, Euro Lottery Intern. Award Promotion Notification, "Mrs. Lisa Olive", "Mr.David Marsha"
-
UK NATIONAL LOTTRY FOUNDATION
-
"Mr Darren Lloyds", "darrenlloyds_uknl08@hotmail.com"
-
"YOU HAVE WON THE BRITISH LOTTERY 2008"
-
"Lotto manager", "MR. STEVE OWEN"
-
Barrister Louis Cox Esq, Dispatch Agents Mr. Gary Smith Jnr. and Mr Williams Diver at FRONTIER FORWARDING SERVICES L.T.D
.
-
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR
CATEGORY "B" WINNER ONLY
"Mrs. Margaret Johnson", "Mr. Phil Smith"
-
4th International online awareness Sweepstakes Program
-
MRS ELIZABETH MCPHERSON, Dr. Martin C. Flemings
-
British International Lottery and Sweepstake
- Lawrence Artkinson
-
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY - Woolmich Bank - "Mr. Mike Johnson", "MICHEAL
SMITH"
- British Lottery
International, Mrs. Victoria johnson, Liverpool
- BRITISH LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL - "Mr. Anthony Campbell", "Mr Powell Paul"
- British Lottery International programs, Mr. Aderson Lord and Richard Moore,
"fiduciary agent"
- The British National
Lottery - "Mrs. Stella Ellis", "Mr. Maxwell Smith", a complete example
with replies from the scammers
- BRITISH
NATIONAL LOTTERY - "Brian Kuppet", "MR DAVID GIBSON"
-
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY International Lottery Programs
-
British National Online Lottery Programme
- "BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE", "Dr. Fitzgerald Blair"
-
Camelot National Lottery
-
"MrsDianne Thompson", "Mr Phil Smith"
- The British National
Lottery - This is to congratulate you and your family for this lucky
winning,
- MR.DOLPHIN WALKER, Claims
Department, The UKNL Foundation, Email: ukclaimingagencydept@yahoo.co.uk
- Elot Financial Reconciliation
Inc.,Contact person: MR.
LOPEZ ADAMS. and
CHARLES LOUIS McClean (Mr.),
-
The Lottery Company,
Harrogate, MR GARRY MURPHY , Debbi King
-
The Lottery Company or
BRITISH LOTTERY or UNITED KINGDOM LOTTERY -
"Mrs Lisa Brown", "Mr.Oliver Campbel"
- FROM THE DESK OF MR JONES
MAYOR. AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER, PAN-BANK BENIN REPUBLIC
- Frontier Forwarding
Service Ltd, Mrs. Anna Walter
- The
National Lottery, Mr John Richards, Ms.Candy Mason, and SIR GEORGE
HARRIS
- The
National Lottery, Mr. Steven Burtler and Mr. Christopher Thomas
- The National Lottery,
Peter Tailor, Kelvin Bode
- The NATIONAL LOTTERY
-
"SIR GEORGE HARRY" and "James Keegan"
- The National Lottery
-
"Tracy Kelly", "Martin Cole"
- The National Lottery and
TNT COURIER SERVICE - "Peter Taylor", "MR TERRY HOPKINS"
- NATIONAL LOTTERY.COM
-
"Mrs.Teresa Allan" and "Mr.Alexander Davis"
- National Lottery
Headquarters - "Mrs. Gina Cruz", "Mr. Randy Fox"
-
Overseas Claims Unit, United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary, Mr. Scott Bedury,
- OXFORD REGIONAL
CLAIMS OFFICE -
"Mr. Davis Kelley", "your appointed fiduciary agent"
-
Mr. Simon Perchard,
Finance Director,
Link Finance and Trust Ltd.
-
UK-GAMING
Headquarters, Graham Lewis, RYAN BOND
- U.K LOTTERY TEAM, SIR
WILCOX DUTCH, DR. WILLIAMS JONES.
- UK
International Lotto, Mr. Carl Gareth
- UK Lottery Board,
Mr. Ian Louis,
Overseas Subscribers Agent, Mr. Carl A Houghton
- UK LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTION PROGRAM - Mrs.Tina Stone, Mr. Brad Naysmith and Mr
Smith Sand,
"fudiciary agent"
- UK Lotto - Financial
Securities Co.
- UK International Lottery - Frontier Forwarding Services Limited
"Mr.Peter Liu", "Wendy Hawker or ASHE .K. AWOMI"
- UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
BOARD - Claims Department - "Mr. Henry Smith", "Sir Christopher Barrett"
- UK
National Lottery; Dear Lucky Winner, BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
- UK National Lottery
online Sweepstakes International program,
"Williams Page"
- UK Queen's Sweep
Lotto, MRS Caroline Brooks.
- United Kingdom National Lottery-
"Mrs Caroline Andrews", "Barrister Ashley Richard"
- British Lottery Headquarters of the British Lottery International programs
-
"Gill Watkins, Esq.", "Anthony Hawkins"
- UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
-
"Richard.K Lloyd" and "Mr. Brender William"
- UK
National Lottery - "Paul White", "Austine Moore"
- UK
National Lottery - "Lorraine Dodds", "Mr. Charles Edward"
- UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
-
"William Stevenson"
- UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
HEADQUARTERS - BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
- United Kingdom National Lottery wishes to inform you that the results of the
E-mail address ballot lottery international program by
Great Britain
- Mr Fred Martin - Mrs. Dianne Thompson
- UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL
LOTTERY - "Mrs. Rose Wood", "Michael Field"
- Verifications Dept. at
the headquarters of The UK National Lottery - "Peter Green", "Desmond
Smith"
- WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY \\\"A\\\" WINNER
-
Mr Joe Martins - Mrs. Lewis Braxton
Other UK Lottery Scams
- Lottery International - Free
Lottery On line Sweepstakes International Program - and or - The Free
Lottery International
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