UK National Lottery Scams:
Example:
UK National Lottery
"Dr. Harry Raymond(Esq) ", "Paul Ferdinad"
Have you received an email from "Dr. Harry Raymond(Esq) " at
the "UK National Lottery" telling you that you won the a prize and to contact "Paul Ferdinad"?
It is a scam.
There are only two legal large lotteries in Britain,
the National Lottery
and the Monday Lottery,
anyway. You must buy a ticket in order to win, and even if you bought a ticket,
it is up to you to match the numbers and notify them that you won - they
wouldn't notify you (how would they know you won, anyway!?) 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. Your email address cannot ever "win" you a lottery.
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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.
-
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 (One example - the scammers constantly change
names, dates and addresses!):
Date: Fri,
11 Apr 2008 13:19:10 +0100
From:
drharryraymond@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: CONTACT DELIVERY DEPARTMENT(PARCELFLIGHT COURIER SERVICE)
To:
JessicaSimpson@hotmail.com
UK
National Lottery,
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
P O Box 1010
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!
UK
NATIONAL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration U971133B).
Winner's name:Jessica Simpson
Raffle Draw Winning
Email:JessicaSimpson@hotmail.com
On Behalf of the Screening Committee of United
Kingdom National Lottery, I wish to formally inform you that you have
successfully passed the Email Screening and Verification Matching Test
conducted for all online winners in your winning in accordance with the
United Kingdom National Lottery Terms and Conditions. Hence you are
therefore cleared for payment by the verifications and fund release
department at the United Kingdom National Lottery Headquarters and your
winnings has been duly signed and approved for release to you by the legal
attorney to the United Kingdom National Lottery.
Your approved winning Certificate number is
UK/9876125
Your winning Transfer Identification code is .ELPC/MWT/0143
As you already know, all winners for the
online version of the United Kingdom National Lottery Online promotions
were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from an exclusive list of
21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies listed online as
part of our international promotion to promote international co-operation
between the United Kingdom and other countries worldwide and I must say that
you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our
winners and we do sincerely hope you will put part of your winnings into
good use for community, educational and business development and also to
render selfless services to the less privileged in your community.
The process for claiming your winnings has
been made very simple so that by the end of one week at most, you are
assured of having received your cash prize and all the legal documents
backing your winnings. In the light of the above mentioned, you are to
contact the the Agency that will be handling the transfer of your winning to
you with the contact informations below:
1) Winner's Full Names:
2) Present
Full Address:
3) Telephone
Number:
4) Raffle
Draw Winning Email:
5) Amount
Won:
6) Winning
Reference Number:
7) Winning
Batch Number:
8) Winning
Transfer Identification code: ELPC/MWT/0143
9) Winning
Certificate Number: UK/9876125
Note that you are to provide the Lottery Winners Agency that
will be handling the transfer of your winning with the required details
below to officially identify you:
PARCELFLIGHT COURIERS SERVICE
Name Paul Ferdinad
Email: parcelflightcourierservice08@yahoo.co.uk
Phone Number:+447024068409,+447024038054
dispatch officer.
Once Again Congratulations from all the staff and
memebrs of
the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY BOARD.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Harry Raymond(Esq)
Accredited Fiduciary Agent
Confidentiality
Notice:
Please note that this email and any files that may be attached to
it is/are confidential and is/are intended for the sole use of the
individual(s) or entity (is) to which it/they is/are addressed. Any
use,distribution,copying or disclosure by any other person or entity is
strictly prohibited under applicable law(s).Opinions, conclusions and other
information in this message that do not relate to official business of
NATIONAL LOTTERY and insurance shall be understood to be neither given nor
endorsed by NATIONAL LOTTERY finance and insurance when addressed to concern
finance and insurance clients; and any information contained in this email
is subject to the terms and conditions of the governing client's contract(s).
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Other addresses and phone numbers we heard they use, with this letter, are:
Agents Name: Dr Harry Raymond
Email:
dr_harryraymonds01@live.com
Phone:Tel:+447024031116
+447024071349
Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery
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