UK National Lottery Scams:
Example:
British National Online Lottery Programme
"BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE", "Dr. Fitzgerald Blair"
Have you received an email from "BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE" at
the "British National Online Lottery Programme" telling you that you won the a prize and to contact "Dr. Fitzgerald Blair"?
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:
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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!
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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!):
BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS.
National Lottery P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
BRITISH ONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!
BRITISH ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF(Registration Z720633X).
REF: BNL /26510460037/07
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD
Hello,
This is to notify you that you have been randomly selected to play for the British National Online Lottery Programme which comes up on Friday 23rd of march,2007.This is your serial number:023-0148-790-459. This is your bonus number:11.You are expected to select another five lucky numbers from 1 to 49 to make it six numbers. The amount for this week is ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS(1.5m)bps. Your
email address was amongst those chosen this quarter and you are to contact our Promotion Manager, quote your serial number and then your five lucky numbers. Entries closes on Friday 23rd of march by 12noon London time. You must be above 18year !!! Here is the contact info:
Promotion Manager:
Dr. Fitzgerald Blair
Email: fitzjblair@yahoo.es
Phone Number:+44 702 407 9374
And please save a copy of your reply because you will be asked to scan and send it as evidence when you emerge as a winner. Good luck to you.
Yours faithfully,
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE,
UNITED KINGDOM
Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery
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