Lottery fraud
Complaint
Vickie Jones
Country: United States
I received an email stating that I have won a lottery with my email address. I receive different types all of the time. Here is this one.
FREE LOTTO AWARD CLAIMS AND RELEASE DEPARTMENT. GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!BRITISH(UK) NATIONAL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;(Registration U971133B). NOTE: The Courier do not accept any deduction or payment after delivery as it illegal and not accepted. YOUR ADDRESS HAVE WON Congratulations once again, on behalf of the FREE LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES ONLINE LOTTERY COMPANY. I wish to inform You that Your won prize and some document has been forwarded to the INTERNATIONAL COURIER SYSTEMS UK delivery.The courier has been our affiliated courier for years and has been helping Us to deliver won checks and document to Our lucky winners. We do believe that your winnings will be put into good use for community, educational and business development. On Behalf of the Screening Committee of FREE LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES ONLINE LOTTERY COMPANY, I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the E-mail Screening and Verification Form Matching Test conducted for all online winners in your Category. Hence you are therefore cleared for payment. All necessary documents that will facilitate the clearance of your cheque in your name has been processed. Your parcel contains the following Documents: 1.WINNING CHEQUE VALUED THE SUM OF (500,000.00G.B.P)2.WINNING CERTIFICATE FROM THE FREE LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES ONLINE LOTTERY COMPANY. You are to contact INTERNATIONAL COURIER SYSTEMS UK via e-mail for your won prize of (500,000.00G.B.P) with your ORDER NUMBER:TNX22589420 Your Telephone Number and also Your delivery address where you want your parcel to be delivered to. Your WINNING CHEQUE of (500,000.00G.B.P) and all legal document banking your winnings has been sent to our affiliate INTERNATIONAL COURIER SYSTEMS UK. You are required to contact the courier officer of INTERNATIONAL COURIER SYSTEMS UK for their courier cost of delivery. ****************************** ****************************** *** COURIER DELIVER OF YOUR WINNING FUNDS Central Pk Est/Mosley Rd,Trafford Park Manchester ,M17 1TT UK Open 7days-24hrs-365days E-mail Address: ics_courier_delivery@live.comNAME:Mr. Alex Powell,(Dispatch Officer)==================== TEL+447-035-946-092 TEL:+447-035-943-619TEL:+447-035-947-075FAX:+447 092 869 036====================May You need my help in any other way? Please, always be free to get back to me via email as our office is also open from Monday to Saturday to attend to Our Winners . Best Regards,Claims Agent Manager,
Payment and Release order Department,
FREE LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES ONLINE LOTTERY COMPANY.
FREE LOTTO AWARD CLAIMS AND RELEASE DEPARTMENT. GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!BRITISH(UK) NATIONAL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;(Registration U971133B). NOTE: The Courier do not accept any deduction or payment after delivery as it illegal and not accepted. YOUR ADDRESS HAVE WON Congratulations once again, on behalf of the FREE LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES ONLINE LOTTERY COMPANY. I wish to inform You that Your won prize and some document has been forwarded to the INTERNATIONAL COURIER SYSTEMS UK delivery.The courier has been our affiliated courier for years and has been helping Us to deliver won checks and document to Our lucky winners. We do believe that your winnings will be put into good use for community, educational and business development. On Behalf of the Screening Committee of FREE LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES ONLINE LOTTERY COMPANY, I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully passed the E-mail Screening and Verification Form Matching Test conducted for all online winners in your Category. Hence you are therefore cleared for payment. All necessary documents that will facilitate the clearance of your cheque in your name has been processed. Your parcel contains the following Documents: 1.WINNING CHEQUE VALUED THE SUM OF (500,000.00G.B.P)2.WINNING CERTIFICATE FROM THE FREE LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES ONLINE LOTTERY COMPANY. You are to contact INTERNATIONAL COURIER SYSTEMS UK via e-mail for your won prize of (500,000.00G.B.P) with your ORDER NUMBER:TNX22589420 Your Telephone Number and also Your delivery address where you want your parcel to be delivered to. Your WINNING CHEQUE of (500,000.00G.B.P) and all legal document banking your winnings has been sent to our affiliate INTERNATIONAL COURIER SYSTEMS UK. You are required to contact the courier officer of INTERNATIONAL COURIER SYSTEMS UK for their courier cost of delivery. ****************************** ****************************** *** COURIER DELIVER OF YOUR WINNING FUNDS Central Pk Est/Mosley Rd,Trafford Park Manchester ,M17 1TT UK Open 7days-24hrs-365days E-mail Address: ics_courier_delivery@live.comNAME:Mr. Alex Powell,(Dispatch Officer)==================== TEL+447-035-946-092 TEL:+447-035-943-619TEL:+447-035-947-075FAX:+447 092 869 036====================May You need my help in any other way? Please, always be free to get back to me via email as our office is also open from Monday to Saturday to attend to Our Winners . Best Regards,Claims Agent Manager,
Payment and Release order Department,
FREE LOTTO SWEEPSTAKES ONLINE LOTTERY COMPANY.
Comments
"The message you submitted has been checked
Please carefully review the following Scam-O-Matic results:
This email looks like a fake lottery scam.
Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
They do not notify winners by email.
You can not win without first buying a lottery ticket.
They do not randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
They do not use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
They do not tell you to call a mobile phone number.
They do not tell you to keep your winnings secret.
They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
Any "courier service", "lawyer" or "bank" that a fake "lottery" may have introduced you to is also fake!
The following phrases should put you on alert:
"00,000.00":
they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals
This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
+447035946092 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
This email lists free webmail addresses. Besides personal use for legitimate purposes, use of such addresses is also typical for scams. NOTE: Lotteries, banks, government agencies and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
ics_courier_delivery@live.com (MSN Hotmail; can be used from anywhere worldwide)
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