This Lottery scam was submitted by a reader by mail a few weeks ago, but got stuck in one of my spam filters for a while. I rescued it just before emptying my Junk folder. R. Johnsson, who submitted the mail, writes that she wants me to publish it warn others. This is a variation […]
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!
The Holland Casino Lotto Promo Int
Even though my spam filters seem to block all lottery scams these days, my readers still receive them. Here’s one from The Holland Casino Lotto Promo Int, submitted to me through the comment system, by Georg Pétur from Island…
What is the Gotenborg SMS Lottery
Since this summer, there has been reports about various SMS lottery scams, that are said to be originated in Sweden. Personally, I don’t really think they are. Even though they state an address for a Swedish Post Office Box in Gothenburg. Mark the spelling (not Gotenborg) as it is spelled in the sting mail. There […]
Millennium Scientific Computer Game
Another Lottery scam rescued from my spam bucket. This one is even stamped as spam by the serverside junk filters. But it wasn’t certain enough to just send it into black space. This lottery scam actullay has a fun twist to it. If I breach the confidentiality, they will send all of my two and […]
EU Online Lottery and Gaming Corporation
I went through my Junk folder before emptying the 10,000 junk mails that have been accumulating there, and guess what I found? Yes! A few more lottery notifications. If anyone finds a door marked EU Online Lottery and Gaming Corporation somewhere… Please prove me wrong.
So now I am confused with the lottery scammers themselves
The other day, I received an e-mail with what I first preceived as a very threatening content (see below). As it turned out the sender had confused me and Nikke’s Index with a Spanish lottery scam setup (probably the Loterie Nationale, El Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery International or any of their offsets). The sender […]
ticket nr 893610
I just cannot understand why scammers, and especially lottery scammers find it so difficult to format their sting mails properly. In my oppinion, presentation just has to be vital in a good scam. Transfer these scam emails to the offline world, think for a minute or two. If a rugged person who can hardly speak […]
Sara Vincente, Euro Lotto Company
Usually, I edit out the worst formatting errors from lottery scam e-mails like the one below. But usually, they just have a few hard line breaks. This one though, is almost hopelessly malformated. And the subject line… Which legitimate lottery agent would write PLZ BE INFORM in the subject line of a lottery notification? Of […]
National Lottery scam using the same text for a year
A major mistake to avoid if you are a lottery scammer would be to send out the exact same mail more than once. Especially using the exact same ticket number (5647560054 188), the same serial number (5368/02) and even the same lucky numbers (50-18-22-24-32-33) more than once. Tonight when I received two emails with these […]
BINGO LOTTO NL online Sweepstakes International program
Here we go again. Yet another time I’m disqualifying myself from a million Euro lottery cash price. A bogus cash price from a non-existent lottery announced by a scammer who’s after the petty cash he can pull in from bogus registration fees and courier services, that is. It’s amazing that I still get these scam […]