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Is it me or have the number of lottery scam emails increased recently? It is not enough for us here at UKLotteryDraw.com to report on the British National Lottery, the European lottery and other global lotteries, we also have advised several people regarding the many lottery scams there are around.

In the last few weeks we have ourselves received an amazing number of fraudulent emails regarding not only lottery scams but also other attempts to extract money from us. But, as this is a lottery website, let’s look at the lottery emails.

Firstly, can we reiterate the rules for avoiding lottery scams:

1. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. You never get something for nothing – particularly where money is concerned.

2. In lotteries, you will never, ever win anything unless you buy a ticket or join a syndicate. If you have not joined one of the many global lotteries you are not in it.

3. No lottery administrator will ever contact you if you have won. If you do think you have a winning lottery number you will have to contact the lottery company yourself.

4. At no time will any lottery administrator ask for your personal details or ask you to send money to them before releasing the prize. There is no exception to this.

The scammers are after your personal details (identity theft) or your money. Send either to them and you will start a nightmare you want to avoid at all costs.

If you do receive a fraudulent email, letter or telephone call you may want to refer it to your local law enforcement organization, government consumer department or one of the online fraud agencies (see some useful links below) but please DO NOT respond to the fraudsters.

Delete the email, burn the letter or put the telephone down.

These fraudsters are making millions from their victims. Please let’s shut them down.

Here are some example emails I have collected from kind correspondents:

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY INC©
Licensed & Registered
2 Monck Street, London OvSW1P 2BQ
Tel: +44 (0) 701-112-8490

This is to publicize the result of online liberated
gaming promo endowment apprehended in UK, March 2012.
Based on random assortment implementation from Millions
of e-mail Addresses World-Wide, your email address was
selected. Hence, the UK National lottery Incorporated©,
has approved you to collect the sum of £950,000.00 GBP.

Grant file: 60009878623: REF: NEA/020-09092012.

Contact our associated solicitor below for information to
disburse your prize of £950,000.00 GBP to you due to
condition of claim by winners resident outside of United Kingdom.

Names:
Tel:
Country:

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Michael Bakker Co & Law-Firm.
Esq. Michael Bakker (Appointed Payment Attorney)
Email: michaelbakker.lawfirm.uk@hotmail.com
michaelbakker_esq@yahoo.co.jp
TEL:+44 (0) 7700012683
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PRIZE MUST BE CLAIM WITHIN 12 DAYS OF RECEIVING NOTICE.

Sincerely,
Josef Huber
Fiduciary Agent

And a second, longer one:

UK National Lottery P O Box 1010 Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)WINNING PARAMETERSRef Number: UK/9580X2/45Batch Number: 062/01/ZY469IDENTIFICATION NUMBER:{CPEL/OWN/9876}.

Congratulations Lucky Winner,According to the notification that you received. The notification mail sent to you is to inform you that you emerged as our lucky winner.and this explains how you became a winner, The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category \\A\\

You are therefore been approved to claim the sum of a31,000,000,00 (One Million, Great Britain Pound Sterlings Only).Also, 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. This office is in receipt of the information you provided for the processing of your lottery winnings of One Million, Great Britain Pound Sterlings (a31,000,000,00)  which was also forwarded to us from the ONLINE COORDINATOR OF THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY INC , your lottery funds of the sum of One Million, Great Britain Pound Sterlings (a31,000,000,00)  have been processed. I have forwarded your details, your file and original certificate to our associated COURIER COMPANY (SCARLET COURIER COMPANY) for verification and payment.  Now you are required to contact the SCARLET COURIER COMPANY yourself by writing an application for the release of your winnings to you.

The application should be presented to them in the below format and sent by email.CONTACT SCARLET COURIER COMPANY FOR YOUR WINNING PRIZE:Courier Name: Scarlet Courier Limited.Contact Person: Mr. Richard PetersonE-mail:- : +447017425121 Fax: +448447743319Note that you are to provide the Scarlet Courier Company with the required details below to officially identify you:1) Winner’s Full Names:2) Present Full Address:3) Telephone Number:4) Country\city :5) Occupation :6) Raffle Draw Winning Email:7) Amount Won:  Winning Reference Number:9) Winning Batch Number:10) Winning Transfer Identification code: ELPC/MWT/014311) Winning Certificate Number: UK/9876125

Having applied to the Courier, you are required to keep me updated of every correspondence and of progress with the Courier as soon as you are in contact with them because it is my responsibility, as your fiduciary agent, to ensure that you get paid and on time too. Again, it is important that you keep all your winning particulars and numbers personal and confidential until your prize money has been paid to you.  This is a security measure to avoid double claiming or/and impersonation.

Contact the Courier as soon as possible to avoid delays to your payment.  Should you have any difficulties whatsoever, do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Pinkett Griffin.Uk National Lottery Claims Agent.

And finally a simple one received here the other day:

Your mail id has won 1,000, 000.00 Pounds in the Uk Draw send:

Name..
Address:.
Age..
Tell…
Occupation…
Country:
Email:.

Adolf Korczyk

a.korczyk@pb.edu.pl

These links may well be useful:

Previous articles on lottery fraud.

The British National Lottery and fraud.

The UK’s official  ActionFraud website.

FraudAid’s website.

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We all want to find the best lotteries to play and identify the global lotteries that will make our dreams come true.

Sadly too many people are still the victim of lottery scams that prey on our wish to win it big.

The Brooklyn Eagle newspaper recently warned residents in their area of the United States that a new lottery scam was operating in the vicinity. New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli reports that cheques are being received by potential victims together with a covering letter.

This letter is from a company calling itself either Guaranty Trust Inc., New York or Golden Gateway Financial, Division of Unclaimed Funds from Las Vegas or London.

The cheque is fake and the signature forged. The letter tells the recipients they have won a prize in the ‘American Lottery Sweepstakes Millions’ and that they should send money to claim the full prize.

Of course the money disappears and no prize is forthcoming.

At the same time, Bayshore Broadcasting in Canada reports a lady received an email telling her she had won a $5.5 million lottery in Australia.

Regrettably she replied to the email. A person pretending to be a doctor then persuaded her to send a $2500 ‘administration fee.’ Once she had sent that, the victim was then asked to send another $2850 as a ‘currency conversion fee.’

Needless to say, the lady has seen no winnings or even her money back.

If you receive any notice that you have won a lottery you did not pay to enter then ignore it. Never, ever, respond to any such communication. You will either lose money or personal information.

As Thomas DiNapoli explains, “An offer of easy money is usually too good to be true.”

One way to avoid the scams is to play lotteries online or visit your local shop to play one of the global lotteries.

Read more on lottery scams here.

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Yet another new lottery fraud has surfaced in the town of Austintown, Ohio and has been reported on the WKBN.com website.

At first this one appears to be exciting and not a scam at all. A lady in Austintown received a cheque for $1985 in the post, supposedly from a body calling itself the ‘Global Lotto Commission.’

The letter with the cheque claims she has won part of a $125 000 lottery jackpot. The next step was for her to call a number given in the letter to speak to a specific individual. Fortunately the lady concerned was smart enough not to call the number but instead to report the letter.

Of course there is no such organization as the Global Lotto Commission; indeed the name is well known as a scam cover and has been used before.

But surely in this case, the lady could have just cashed the cheque and profited that way? Sadly if she rang the number provided she would be told to send a portion of the money via Western Union to cover administration charges. The cheque she received will certainly prove to be invalid and she would have sent her own money to the scammers.

The British National Lottery administrators, Camelot, and other lottery bodies are aware of how common these scams are becoming and are keen to educate people on what to look for and not give money or information to the scammers.

After all, that is what these people are after: your money or your identity.

The British National Lottery website provides some useful information relevant to anyone and to any of the many global lotteries.

The first rules should be well known but bear repeating. No lottery organization will contact you to tell you of a winning lottery ticket; you have to claim your winnings from them and show your winning ticket.

You will already know you are in a lottery, as you will have purchased a ticket or joined a syndicate. In other words, you will have already parted with money to play the lottery in advance. Now you can play lotteries online but you still purchase tickets before the draw.

The British National Lottery and other lottery administrators will never tell you how much you have won in an email and certainly would never ask for your personal details or money. Why would they?

The scammers are getting more sophisticated however. Emails may include an embedded link which will take you to an official looking website. Not surprisingly you will be asked to enter your details on this site or perhaps download software.

This of course is phishing and will give the scammer details that can be used to access your accounts or even make purchases in your name.

Never follow a link in such an email. If you think the email might be genuine (unlikely) and you want to check, find the proper official website yourself through Google. If the results bring up a different website to the one in the email then you are being scammed.

Obviously the different global lotteries have different websites but the one for the British National Lottery can be found at National-Lottery.co.uk.

The bottom line is if you receive an email, letter or telephone call telling you of a prize from a lottery you have not entered, delete the email, destroy the letter or put the telephone down. You may want to report it to the appropriate authorities first but never act on the information you are given.

These scammers have made too much money from their victims. Let’s shut off their sources.

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A new twist on lottery scams has been reported by a local website in Florida in the USA.

A pair of confidence tricksters has approached elderly people in the areas of Brandon and Tampa. One is a young woman of Hispanic origins and the other an older bearded man.

The two approach their victims and tell them they have won a lottery payout but they need to borrow some money to cover expenses in claiming their winnings.

Incredibly the victims have given the tricksters several thousand dollars each time.

The ploy ends when the couple ask their victim to visit a store on their behalf. Not surprisingly, whilst he or she is inside the criminals disappear.

This scam is a new angle on previous versions where victims are told they have won a lottery prize but need to pay money in advance of receiving their winnings. The money is paid and nothing more is heard.

The reality is of course that no money is ever needed upfront to claim a lottery prize. Winners will already know if they have won from the wide publicity given to lottery draw winning numbers and will also have purchased a ticket or a place on a lottery syndicate.

One way to get involved is to play lotteries online and a great place to get your tickets is at the Lotter.

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This lottery scam in the name of the British National Lottery was recently reported on the India Complaints website.
An email was received saying the following:

Wednesday December 01st
Draw No. 1559 20 21 22 24 27 34 BONUS 29

Dear Winner…

This is to inform you that you have won a prize cash of seven hundred and fifty thousand Great Britain Pound Sterlings (750,000.00) for the month of December 2010 Lottery promotion which is organized by BBC ONE LOTTERY on our 2010 CHARITY/AWARDS

We Congratulate you for being one of the five person selected.

The draw no.1559 brought out your e-mail address from a Data Base of Internet Email Users and qualified
you a bonafied winner of the stated winning amount.

How ever you will have to fill and submit the informations below to the Claims Manager
1.Full name…………..
2. Contact Address……
3. Age. ……………….
4. Telephone Number……
5. Sex…. …………….
6.Occupation…………..
7..State:………………
8.Country…………….

Claims Manager
Mr. Scott Mills
E-mail: remittanceunit2010@hotmail.com

Clearly this is a scam for these reasons:

1. The BBC only broadcast the draw and do not get involved in the organization of the British National Lottery.
2. There are some basic errors of grammar and language that indicate the author does not have English as his or her first language.
3. No lottery organization contacts winners – the winners have to approach them.
4. The British National Lottery organizers would never ask you to reveal personal information in this way (there is no doubt this email is an attempt to steal the recipients identity – and perhaps later also get money out of that person).
5. To be in a lottery you have to buy a ticket or join a syndicate. If you have done neither then you are not in the lottery.

Ironically Scott Mills is a very good disc jockey on BBC Radio but would, I think, be upset to find his name is being misused in this way!

Please, please, if you receive a similar email or letter destroy it immediately or pass it on to the relevant fraud authority. NEVER follow it up.

These people make too much money from unsuspecting people: please do not become one of them. Let’s shut off their source of income or these scams will continue.

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Originally posted to Ezine Articles
Avoiding Lottery Scam Emails

By Daniel Collins

In recent times, lottery scam emails have become increasingly clever, as well as a lot more common. Indeed, lottery scam emails are nothing new, but they are becoming a lot more widespread as technology progresses and an increasing number of people gain access to the internet.

As it goes, emails are quite easy to forge; they can appear to come from an official sounding source, which can often lead unsuspecting recipients to appear far more trustworthy than they should be. A typical lottery scam email informs the recipient that they have won a major prize and then requests that the “winner” takes a number of steps to claim it. As such, one of the steps will be to claim the prize, and then arranging for it to be transferred to the winner’s bank account.

The scam procedure for a prize transfer involves the recipient being asked to pay a handling fee so that their prize can be deposited into the bank account of the winner. This fee is often a sizeable amount of four figures or more; however, because the reader thinks they have won millions, and they are dealing with an official organisation, they are often willing to pay this sum. Of course, as soon as the handling fee has been paid, the scam is complete and the unsuspecting lottery winner has unfortunately lost a substantial amount of money.

However, there are some lottery scam warnings to look out for, which can prove very useful in helping lottery players avoid being duped:

Although you can’t stop lottery scam emails from arriving in your inboxes, the good news is that from looking out for the specific lottery scam warnings, you can avoid getting caught out by them.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed, so by paying attention to the latest scam developments, you will be in the best possible position to stay safe in what is becoming an increasingly deceptive online world.

Daniel Collins writes on a number of topics on behalf of a digital marketing agency and a variety of clients. As such, this article is to be considered a professional piece with business interests in mind.

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Please note: Lottery scams are also after your personal information so please do not provide them. Identity theft is an increasing problem.

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