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Sample Lottery Scam Email:
Euromillion Loteria Español Pol.Lasao
"Important Information, YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HAS WON YOU A LOTTERY "
Did you receive an email from Gabriel Pepe Louis telling you to contact
Miguel Edward at Royal Trust BV? Well, we trust you understand that it is a
scam! The Spanish Ministry of the Treasury has advised us that legitimate
lottery tickets can only be purchased from authorized ticket sellers in
Spain. Let us repeat that: The El Gordo and other legal Spanish lotteries are only open to
Spanish residents - you CANNOT win if you are not resident IN Spain.
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Also see this page for a sample in the UK.
Below is yet another example of a fake lottery . Again,
note the poor format and poor grammar. They also expect a payment in order to
receive your winnings. If paying a fee to receive unsolicited winnings
from a lottery makes sense to you; then you are too gullible to be allowed to
have a bank account....
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:32:17 -0700(PDT)
Subject: LUCKY DIP !!
From: “EURO.” <euro-spa-in@hotmail.es>
Euromillion Loteria Español Pol.Lasao, Area
Anardi 611, 28090 Madrid.
Spain Branch
Ref. Nº: SG:538/101/901 Batch. Nº: Eurs/5490/9100/08.
Important Information, YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HAS
WON YOU A LOTTERY.
Please your urgent response is needed.
It is our pleasure to inform you through this
medium that Your email address has won a prize of Euros 950,000.00 (Nine
Hundred And Fifty Thousand euros Only) in category'A'micronet Lottoshop
Ref. Nº: SG:538/101/901.Batch. Nº: Eurs/5490/9100/08. Winning ticket
number :6-11-14-20-32-38-51.
To file your winning prize, contact your claims
Company ;with your Full Name,Home and Office Tel & Fax Number,Mobile Tel
Number and your Winning ticket number, Reference numbers,Batch. Nº: and
amount won information for processing of your winning fund to our
registered claim agent in address below:
ROYAL TRUST BV Miguel Edward Contact Email:
royaltrustbv@aim.com Tel.00 34 648 660 648.
Be informed that the appointed agent will be
required to swear affidavits of lotto claim also remember,all winning
must be claimed not later than 30th April,
Yours Sincerely, Gabriel Pepe Louis. Co-ordinator.
NOTE CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT ONLY.
euro@spainmail.com
Or this Scam email:
Subject: Re.Legalization fees.
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:04:31 -0400
From: royaltrustbv@aim.com Add Mobile Alert
ROYAL TRUST AGENCY BV
CALLE JUAN DE AUSTRIA 6
28804 MADRID SPAIN.
TEL/FAX:+34 648 660 648.
Attn. ,
This is to inform you that we have received your
filled legalization form.Below is the information that you will need to
make the payment for the affidavits of oath.
Name.Mark Kelly.
Address.Same as our office address.
You are therefore required to go to any
Moneygram office(Rennies bank) close to you to send the legalization
fees.
We await to hear from you to enable us complete
the processing as soon as possible.
Note once you have it sent email the details to
us.
Yours sincerely,
Edward Miguel.
Advisory from the real Spanish lottery agency (Loterías y Apuestas de Estado (LAE)
):
See this page for the warning in
Spanish and many other languages
"Loterías y Apuestas de Estado (LAE) would like
to inform the general public that a number of groups of criminals of various
nationalities are using the prestige and the commercial names of the Spanish
Lottery by fraudulent means in several countries. They move easily around the
whole world and use mobile telephones, PO boxes, provisional or false addresses
(including real addresses of official Spanish organisations), as well as names
that bring to mind prestigious institutions ("el Gordo", la Primitiva",
"European Lottery Commission", etc.) They also forge the printed sheets and
signatures of various banks or insurance firms.
In order to carry out the fraud, the
procedure that is generally followed consists of informing the potential victim
that they have been the lucky winner of a substantial prize (even if they have
not participated in any draw), although they cannot collect this prize until
they have paid an amount going towards the taxes, bank costs, delivery costs or
insurance processing, etc. Usually, the fraudster warns their potential victim
that the deadline to pay these charges is very soon and that their right to
collect the prize is about to expire.
Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, that is, the Spanish Lottery,
wants to inform
very clearly the following:
-
To win a prize of the Spanish lottery is
essential to have purchased previously lottery or bets of our range of
products.
-
Spanish lottery prizes are always free of
taxes and burdens.
-
When you are offered “prizes” that seem to be
linked to the Spanish Lottery, DO NOT PAY ANY AMOUNT. We are, in all
probability, before a criminal fact that must be reported to the
authorities. The Spanish Police has already arrested and subjected to legal
procedures some of the members of groups who were operating from Spain.
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If you have any question, please contact:
sugerencias@loteriasyapuestas.es "
Names of Scam / Fake / Fraud Lottery
Click here for the huge list of the names of the currently identified lottery
scams companies
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