What is the Gotenborg SMS Lottery

no response from susan patrick to direct me how to claim my prize.
no claim form attached with your message.
thank you.
mobile 00966 xxx xxx xxx
[mobile phone number taken out by Nikke]

KINDLY PLEASE CALL ME BACK OR EMAIL ME ALL THE INFORMATIONS NEEDED TO CLAIM MY WINNED PRIZE.
THANK YOU

Dear Ahmad,
The thing with the lottery is that there is no lottery. It’s all a scam to try to make you pay them money for handling the payment.

(If someone fluent in Arabic reads this, please post a comment that explains this in words that Ahmad Talal Moussali understands.)

DEAR NIKKE,
ARE YOU GONNA TELL ME THAT IT IS ALL A DECEPTION FROM SOME OUTLAWS WHO PLAY AND LIE ON OTHERS USING THE NAME OF TOM FREDRICK AND G,S.LOTTERY?

Yes Ahmad, it’s a sad fact, but the ‘Gotenborg SMS Lottery’ isn’t more real than… well the ‘Malmoe SMS Lottery’.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH NIKKE ,IWISH THAT I AM A REAL WINNER THEN I WOULD RATHER PREFER TO PAY YOU A NICE GIFT FOR YOUR RESPONSE.
THANKS AGAIN

bonjour cher monsieur nikke est-ce vraiment c’est un jeu pour participer et gagner suivant la chance ou vous jouez sur les sentiments des personnes ?!!

Bonjour Belmoeiti,

Je ne suis pas le créateur de la loterie. J’essaye seulement d’avertir des personnes au sujet de ces genres de fraudes de loterie.

(The above is written with the help of Google Translate. I hope it still comes out as somewhat understandable.)

bonjour cher nikke merçi de vos conseils svp tu peux me donner une idée sur the gotenborg sms lottery merci encore.

Cette page en Francais (á la Google).

bonjour cher nikke merci infiniment de vos conseils svp peux tu nous donner une idée précise sur la the gotenborg sms lottery est -ce vrai ou non?et encore merci.

bonjour cher nikke lindqvist j’attends toujours votre réponse merci.

bonjour cher nikke lindqvist merci infiniment de vos conseils svp peux tu nous donner une idée précise sur the gotenborg sms lottery est-ce vrai ou non? MERCI.

bonjour cher nikke lindqvist j’attends toujours votre réponse que j’éspere favorable .merci

Dear Nikke,

I got a response from Susan Patrick. A certificate and approved letter. I have to phone Peter Axelson on +46701560507 A lady answered the phone and said that Peter is on a break and must phone back in an hour. Have they stolen my identity? What should i do? The lady sounded like a Nigerian

Nel,

That number is a Swedish mobile phone number that seems to be unlisted, so it is most probably a prepayed phone card of some kind. The phone could of course be situated in any country.

I really don’t think the scammers have stolen your identity. Most probably it’s all a scam to make you pay some kind of transfer fees.

Dear Nikke,

Yesterday I got an SMS mesage, that I won the same ammount but on Nordic SMS Lottery , but the amount and names are the same as by Gotenborg SMS Lottery.

Is this Nordic SMS Lottery allso a scam?

Most probably. There is no such official lottery what so ever.

i get the sms what should i do please help me

Hello from Slovenia !!! I am received SMS from NORDIC SMS LOTTERY…. the same names……….O….. thanks to help me !!!!!!!!
Have nice day and nice life!!!

I made some queries on the NORDIC SMS Lottery, because Susan (susanpatrick_gsl@mailup.net) told me through an email to send them to a certain Varis Olof (+46704051742)

Here is the content of his message:

Address: Kungsgatan 112
S-90187 Umea,
Sweden
Name: Interbank payment service
Foreign Remittance Department:

Dear Jefferson Clifford J. Tapaoan

You are welcome to the Nordic Lottery Payment Office an affiliate of
the Nordic SMS Lottery. I am pleased to be at your service and you
have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Department
at the headquarters of the Nordic SMS Lottery.

The original copy of your winning certificate, together with a covering
document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for
Claims) stating that the money was obtained
legally through the Nordic SMS Lottery is ready and has been sent
to the tax agency for processing

With regards to you collecting your money, it would be required for you
to either come over to Sweden to collect your money in person, office hours
is
between 10 am and 4 pm monday to friday and on saturday 10 am to 2 pm,
you are also advised that you should notify us of your arrival, so we
will send our staff to come pick you at the airport, secondly on
arrival, you are required to pay a tax and insurance fee to the Tax Agency
that
would issue a tax clearance to us and also issue an approval for the money
to be given
to you, the tax fee is 13,775 Swedish Krona, you are advised to come with
that
amount so you will pay to the Tax agency.

But if you are not able to come over to Sweden, then I would advise that
you contact the Tax Agency and find a way of send the money to
the them for the approval to be issued and we will collect the
tax clearance, then we will either make a bank transfer
of the money to you or we will send a bank cheque to you through a
courier company ( DHL or UPS ), but you will notify us of the best way
you would prefer the money been sent to you.

I know you would have prefer that the tax fee be deducted from the
amount you won, but your prize is protected by a hardcover insurance
policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the money
before it has been remitted to you. This means that no charges can be
deducted from the prize and hence must be provided by you before your
prize is transferred to you, and secondly you are the only person that
is liable to receive the money and not until the approval is received
from the tax office, the money cannot be transferred or deducted.

This is in accordance with section 13(1) (n) of the national gambling
act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3rd July 1996 by the
constitutional assembly. This is to protect winners and to avoid
misappropriation of funds
Also be reminded that the deadline for the claiming of winnings is
exactly two weeks after the receipt of this email. After this period,
your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be
reused in the drawings of the next edition of the lottery.

I hope to hear from you soon.
Good luck and Congratulations once again.
Regards,
Mr. Varis Olof
Head of Payment Office
+46- 704051742

For starters, Mr Olof Varis (Olof is a first name and Varis is a surname) uses a prepaid mobile phone number.
Second. This type of lottery is strictly prohibited by law in Sweden, where we, like many other countries have national lottery monopolies for our gambling needs.

It’s a scam, and nothing else.

Dear Nikke,

Thank you very much for your help.

Whew, these people always thrives on somebody else’s for their own gains. I had already some doubts before because I never entered or enlisted my mobile number to any lottery or whatsoever gaming stuffs. When this Mr. Olof replied, he couldn’t write a professional letter in English format, considering he’s a ”HEAD” of a Payment Office.

Anyways, tt’s such a nice thing to have you around explaining these to us.

u said me that i won some money but i didn’t receive it yet

لقد وصلتني رسالة من العنوان الذي سأذكره لاحقا بأنني فائز بيانصيب س م س الشمالي وعلي تسديد الضريبة وقدرها 13,775 كورونا
وقد إختارني الكمبيوتر في 10/2/2007

I have moved this entire comment into a new post, since this is the first time we have received a full record of the so called Nordic SMS Lottery.
See http://www.lindqvist.com/en/nordic-sms-lottery-a-scam.
Many thanks to Rashad Zeed Alali Aldaher for submitting it here to Nikke’s Index.

please answer me to this prize: is,t right or no? and whay there sending as this letteres

to anyone if was the prizes lies?

They send them out since they want to fool you into paying the ”tax”. After that they will probably try to fool you to pay more money, but since there is no lottery, you will never get any money.

Be warned. Don’t send them any money!

The Nordic SMS Lottery
P O Box 201
Sundvall, SE-211 20
SWEDEN
(Customer Services)
Ref: LSWE/9262/6242/13
Batch: R9/S827-15
Dear Winner,
We happily announce to you the draw (#2971) of the NORDIC SMS LOTTERY,
online Sweepstakes International Program held on Sat. 10th of February
2007.
Your telephone number attached to ticket number: 935173422 with Serial
number 1688/55 drew the lucky numbers: 05.18.29.78.59.74. [12].
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 4,082,000 SEK
(Four Million and Eighty Two Thousand Swedish Krona) ( $586,189 ) in
cash credited to file SWE/4521304172/07.
All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the
World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over
100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes place weekly.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon. In view of this, your 4,082,000 SEK would be released to you by
any of our payment offices in Europe.
To file for your claim, please print and fill the attached form and send
it to
Regina Askia Email: reginaaskia@speedpost.net
reginaaskia@officeemail.net
Who will direct you on how to claim your winnings and also inform the
payment office to prepare and send your send winnings, that way your
Winnings Certificate and all other relevant documents/paperwork can be
prepared for you. You would be required to show an instrument of
identification when collecting the money i.e. Drivers license or
International passport.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of
our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse
of this program. Please be warned.
Good luck from me and members of staff of the NORDIC SMS LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,
Lars Werner (Mr.)
Online Coordinator for NORDIC SMS LOTTERY.
Sweepstakes International Program.
—
Lars Werner
larswerner@speedpost.net

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hi’
i recieve your letter by post. i have won the loteria in 2nd category. i try to you with telephone and by fax.but no response from your side.your fax machine not responding and running a tape. what is this? my claim agent is Mr Juan Lucas the foreign services Manager of SANTALUCIA SEGUROS S.A.Reply from my side last date is 27 April 2007.send me email address.thanks
mobile.00923nnnnnnnnn

Hi Amber,

First of all, it wasn’t I who sent you the letter, nor anyone assiciated with this site. I’ve edited out your mobile phone number from your comment, since it might get you into more trouble with the scammers.

The people who sent you the mail act as false representatives for a lottery that doesn’t exist, and their only objective is to try to make you pay fees and taxes that are just as non-existant.

Please make sure not to pay them anything, nor send them any bank information.

Cheers,
Nikke Lindqvist