UK National Lottery Scams: National Lottery Headquarters, Mrs. Gina Cruz, Mr. Randy Fox

UK National Lottery Scams:
Example: National Lottery Headquarters
"Mrs. Gina Cruz", "Mr. Randy Fox"

Have you received an email from "Mrs. Gina Cruz"  at the "National Lottery Headquarters" telling you that you won the a prize and to contact "Mr. Randy Fox"?  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:

• Master list of sample lottery scam emails

• How to recognize a lottery scam

• What to do if you think you have been the victim of a lottery scam

• How the lottery / sweepstakes scams work

Also

In the UK, call the hotline at 020 7211 8111 to check or report lottery scams.

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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. 

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

National Lottery Headquarters
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
LONDON, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 703 189 5876
Fax: +44 870 974 3115
Customer Service/Claims Department

Reference numbers: RF2052007/21
Batch numbers: BT12/53/0034

WINNING NOTIFICATION

With pleasure The National Lottery, organizers of the UK Online sweepstakes promo, Euro millions, Daily Play, Thunder ball, Lotto Hot picks and Lotto Extra announce to you the result of draw #1154 of the UK Lottery sweepstakes online International Program held on the 15th of June 2007 in United Kingdom.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 647560545 -168 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the Lucky numbers:

Bonus

This subsequently won you one of the lucky dip prizes. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £420,000.00 (Four Hundred and Twenty Thousand British Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/07. This is from a total cash prize of £8,400,000.00 (Eight Million Four Hundred Thousand British Pounds Sterling), shared amongst the Twenty (20) International lucky winners in this category.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 1,000,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies email addresses that are listed online.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our African booklet representative office in South Africa as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your (£420,000.00) Four Hundred and Twenty Thousand British Pounds Sterling would be released to you by our paying office in South Africa as soon as you are in contact with your claims agent. This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).

Our African agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned!!!

To file for your claim, please contact your Claims Agent. Call him immediately you receive this notification and furnish him with your winners Information's as stated below via his email address and also send to him any of your identification copy, either your international passport, National identity card or driving license for the processing:

Reference Number:

Batch Number:

Serial Number:

Ticket Number:

WINNERS INFORMATIONS
1. FULL NAMES:.....................................................
2. ADDRES..............................................................
3. SEX:.....................................................................
4. AGE: ....................................................................
5. MARITAL STATUS:.............................................

6. OCCUPATION: ....................................................
7. TELEPHONE NUMBER:......................................

8. FAX NUMBER:.....................................................

9. E-MAIL ADDRESS:..............................................

10. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:.....................................

11. AMOUNT TO BE CLAIMED................................

Mr. Randy Fox
Claims/Customer Service Department
Email: randyfoxx222@yahoo.com
Tel: +27 82 397 0577
Fax: +27-86 662 0577

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your claims agent.

Thank you for being part of our promotional sweepstakes program. Once again congratulations from the entire staff of the U.K INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY COMMISSION.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Gina Cruz
Online coordinator for UK MEGA JACKPOT PROMO
Copyright © 2007 UK MEGA JACKPOT Lottery Promotion

All rights reserved. Terms of Service -Guidelines.
77635 476378 255667460

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