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UK National Lottery Scams: Peter Tailor

Lottery Scam Email:
The National Lottery, Online Sweepstakes International program
"Peter Tailor, Claims Agent", "Kelvin Bode"

Have you received an email from Peter Tailor, Claims Agent at the "UK LOTTERY" telling you that you've won (without telling you how), and to contact "Kelvin Bode" at a Yahoo address? It is a scam. (Do you suppose the scammer meant "Kevin"?)

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:

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.

Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification. 


Actual scam email (One example - the scammers constantly change names, dates and addresses!):

The National Lottery,
P O Box 1010,
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

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

Date:01/03/2007.

The National Lottery Logo

DEAR WINNER,

CONGRATULATIONS! This is to inform you that you have been cleared a winner of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY online Sweepstakes International program.

I am happy to inform you,your Original Certificate and your Certified bank cheque has been fowarded to the courier company.

Find below the details of the courier company.

TNT COURIER SERVICE

ADDRESS OF HEAD OFFICE:

39 simmons road,
woolwich.london
England, UK.

NAME:MR KELVIN BODE(dispatch officer) EMAIL: tntdispatch54@yahoo.co.uk

TEL: +447045710579

TEL: +447011121791

You are advised to send the courier company a mail to their email address for their courier cost. When contacting them, you are to include this order number as your subject. Please you are adviced to write down the order number and save it.

ORDER NUMBER:P562725

Note: you are to Quote your complete names, Ref/Batch Numbers and your direct phone number so that they can honour your letter. Once again i say congratulations and always inform me with your dealings with the courier company.

Thanks,

Peter Tailor(Mr)
Claims Agent
woolwich.london.
UK National Lottery


Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery 

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