UK National Lottery Scams: National Lottery Sweepstakes International

Sample Email Scams Involving the British National Lottery
THE NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes International
BRITISH LOTTERY BOARD
"Mrs. Susan Moore, Barrister. Luis Santiag"

How to Recognize Them and What To Do If You Receive One

Have you received an email from the "THE NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes International"? Don't count on the prize money.  There is no lottery. How could your "email address" win a lottery?  Did you buy a ticket?  Have you ever heard of the "National Lottery Sweepstakes International"? 

Besides which, NO lottery ever emails people to tell them they won.  It is a scam.

Of course, there are only two legal 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, click here to see what you will likely receive back.

For your education and entertainment, we have highlighted some of the obvious clues that this is a scam; such as random capitalization, the use of a free Yahoo email account and the omnipresent claim that your "email address attached to ticket..." was the key to winning. As if email addresses are used to hand out money...

Also see this page to find out what happens if you reply to them!

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

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Fraud Example

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From: BRITISH LOTTERY BOARD < lottergame24@bellsouth.net >
To: admin@uklottery.co.uk
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:02:03 PM
Subject: Congratulations You Have Just Won!!! (Cash Your Prize)

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
P O BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement that you are one of our end of year winnier of the UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs. held on the 20th of Febuary, 2007.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 three winners in the category \"A\" with the following winning information: You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling).

REF No: UKNL/05/8256/53219/QE327
BATCH No: UKNL5/A115-07

To file for your claim, Contact the processing Consultant:
Fiduciary Agent/Payment Officer.
Barrister. Luis Santiago ESQ
TEL: +447011130907
Official Email: claimsagent_coordinator@tlen.pl 

Do fill out the claims form to in other to process the claims of your prize without delay.

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM

(1).YOUR FULL NAMES...............................

(2).CONTACT ADDRESS................................

(3).TEL/FAX NUMBERS...............................

(4).OCCUPATION...................................

(5).WINNING EMAIL...............................

(6).AGE.........................................

(7).SEX.......................................

(8).BATCH/REF NUMBER................................

(9).AMOUNT.................................

(10).COUNTRY.....................................

(11) MODE OF PRIZE COLLECTION:............?

(a)Bank to Bank Wire Transfer

(b)Courier System

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Susan Moore

Online coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY Sweepstakes International

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