Scammers have been using well-known brands as originators for lottery scams for several years now, and Microsoft isn’t a new name. This lottery scam, from the alias Ben Clark, must however be one of the worst written notifications I have ever seen. The lack of formatting, the ridiculous sum of a million pounds and the […]
Lottery scams
Lottery scams are widely used by fraudsters to try to scam people for small to medium sized sums of money. In the worst cases they even manage to get access to your bank account!
EU Award Lotto – Jose Maria Thomas
This lotto award notification that just arrived in my GMail inbox looks new. At leas, I’d say that the Turkish footer is completely new to me, as the lack of reasonable contact info. Maybe a sign of a newcomer in the lottery scamming business? The names are all wrong, the email address could have been […]
Honda Car International Promotion Program
Many thanks to John Jones who sent me this ‘award notification’ from the Honda Car international promotion program. Yet another scam played at newcomers on the web who are led to believe that they have won one and a half million Brittish pounds in cash. If you receive a mail or letter like this, just […]
eLoterie International 2007
A visitor by the name of Michael, posted the below mail from the eLoterie’ International in a comment to another post. The e-mail is signed by the name of Stewart Wallis from Wallis & Gallagher Consulting, a company name that up to this point has been impossible to find on the web.
The Netherlands Staatsloterij and the fake Sweepstakes International Lottery Promotion Program
Even if the below mail, is quite similar to the previously published Dayzers Lottery scam, it is also very different, and needs a post of it own. Thanks to Gita, who submitted it in a comment. The Dayzers Lottery does in fac exist, but they don’t have any free-for anyone e-mail ballots. They even have […]
Asia Online International Lottery
A new brand of the online lottery scam has opened. This time said to be based in Malaysia, and under the name of Asia Online International Lottery. It’s a scam for sure, and my faithful server-side spam filter has stamped it as spam, but let it through anyway. It’s a weird detail that these scammers […]
Nordic SMS Lottery – a scam
Many thanks to Rashad Zeed Alali Aldaher who submitted this mail about the ”Nordic SMS Lottery” allegedly sent by the Nordic Lottery payment Office, as a comment to the running thread about the very similar, and probably related Gotenborg SMS Lottery scam. A few points worth mentioning: There is no such organisation as the Nordic […]
Certificate from the false UK National Lottery
In a comment to one of the posts on the UK National Lottery scam, Tahani has kindly contributed what you get when sending in £577 for registering your claim. It’s a very phony looking certificate, and then they want £1500 more for your claim to go through with the payment process.
Euro Millones Lottery
Two big lottery prizes in just a couple of days! I missed this on Friday, but it’s almost too good to be true! Alas I didn’t win the really large prize in the Euro Millones Lottery. (What language could that be anyway?) Only a ”consolation cash prize” of 1,300,000:00 Euro. Too bad it’s a scam though.
SWISS-LOTTO Satellite software email lottery
I almost thought I would never get another lottery notification mail, but this weekend, almost to my relief, this one slipped through my spam filters. I have never come caross the SWISS-LOTTO Satellite software email lottery before, and it differs a bit from other lottery scams since it actually parasites on a real lotto site, the quite legitimate SwissLos.