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Facebook Freedom Lottery Award Promo Scam

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Facebook Freedom Lottery Award Promo Scam

The email message below, claiming that the recipient has won the Facebook Freedom Lottery, is fraudulent and you should not respond to it with your personal information. Every day, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into sending money to claim bogus prizes or lottery winnings.

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The Fraudulent Facebook Freedom Lottery Award Scam:

From: facebook lottery facebookagency01 @gmail.com
Date: Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: FACEBOOK FREEDOM LOTTERY AWARD PROMO

My name is Robert Scott James We remember your Facebook name Account on our list here and your money is available for you to claim, Let us know if you ready to claim the money and we Explain to you how we got your Facebook Name Account, You listen and read carefully.
I want to say Big congratulations to you... Your name was selected by Mr Mark Zuckerberg the CEO of Face book Founder & Chief Executive Officer The promotion was made to make all Face book user in other to benefit from the gain of the company, hence we device this lottery promotions to help the poor and all internet users at large.all winners has been confirmed because of the lucky draw that was made between users from facebook.
We are very happy to inform you that your name appear on the Facebook world lottery program for the month and we are giving out the total sum of $100,000 USD ( One hundred Thousand United States Dollars ) to our winners,which is the sum you have won. Your name was selected in a raffle that was made this month so we need your fast response so that we can proceed with the delivery of your fund.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from all areas clearing house computers games from database from Australia,America Samoa,Apia Samoa,New Zealand,United State of America,Cook Island,United Kingdom,south africa and Canada.
This is our international promotion program which was conducted recently for all Facebook users.Once again congratulations.If you are ready to get your Cash get back to me with this information below:
Full Name...........
Address............
Country.........
Male/Female...........
txt or Cell No.........
Age....................
Are you deaf or hearing......
Single/married....
date of birth..............
What do you do for living.........
Income....
Facebook email....
Facebook Password.....
plz reply back right now so that you can get your money ontime today.

Please remember never send your personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who have contacted you via email.

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Apr 16, 2018 at 7:05 PM by an anonymous user from: Perth, Western Australia, Australia

A renee stanley notified me that she saw my name and I won 80000 then she told me what I had to do Anne Sadgrove contact her at the end of it all. she has my id and she is waiting on 700 dollars today. omg, I can't believe I have fell for it

Sep 19, 2017 at 7:51 PM by an anonymous user from: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I got nearly scammed today the day after my son died, of all days, her name is it supposed to be Anne Sadgrove; asked me all the questions but few then asked for a photo and I don't have any. I said so that got her stick so I looked into her name and yep you got it, she's a scammer, luckily I lied about my info.

Feb 11, 2017 at 12:49 AM by an anonymous user from: Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Anne sadgrove is apparently the claims manager who works for Facebook.

Jul 28, 2015 at 2:03 AM by an anonymous user from: Auckland, New Zealand

Hi, I was privately messaged via chat on my number, unfortunately I was so excited that I gave all my personal details and was given a number flp/fb/081/010/2015 and right at the end was told I would have to pay $800 for courier insurance etc.

I am very dubious as I wasnt emailed, jus messaged via chat. The guy's name is Williams Renell Ray.

I was first told about this by a friend that isnt close to me on messenger, Linda Hall. She claimed she saw my name as a winner when she claimed her prize - I havent sent money yet because I'm very dubious.

I would be very thankful if this was checkd out.

Jul 28, 2015 at 4:52 AM by info

It is a scam. Do not send your money! Once you are asked to send money in order to receive a lottery prize, it is a scam. This is how the scammers make their money.

Jul 7, 2015 at 4:56 PM by an anonymous user from: Wantage, England, United Kingdom

Why do Facebook allow these scammers to advertise as part of their organisation.

They blatantly place things on Facebook, with the facebook icon, saying they represent the head of facebook with a FB icon. Telling you to beware of scammers, often in an ungrammatical text. If I were Facebook team, I would delete each one

Jul 7, 2015 at 5:28 PM by info

If it was possible, Facebook would have removed all illegal content from their website. Monitoring such large website for fraudulent activities takes time.

So, it is important that people do their research before taking part in any activity, especially the ones that seem too true to believe.

Feb 9, 2015 at 2:49 PM by an anonymous user from: Cleveland, Tennessee, United States

This is a scam alert coming from someone named Debbie Mudge on Facebook. She gets a hold of you thru one of your friends that has their profile hacked. I reported her to fb.

This is the message the scammer will send to you:

"You are a WIN NEW of the randomly facebook money grant and You are

therefore been approved

for a lump sum pay out of $120,000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO.

FBOL/107654/04."

Jun 29, 2015 at 1:49 PM by an anonymous user from: Manchester, Tennessee, United States

Yea. She has tried it with a friend of mine too. If I could get my hands on this woman I would b*tch slap her!

Oct 24, 2014 at 3:24 PM by an anonymous user from: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Hi, a friend of my FB Page messaged me today. He said I won this so called Fb Lottery.

Oct 24, 2014 at 7:34 PM by info

Remember, there is no Facebook lottery.

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