Lottery Scamming Website - www.megamillionprize .tk

Lottery Scamming Website - www.megamillionprize .tk

The website: "www.megamillionprize .tk," which scammers claim is a Mega Millions lottery in collaboration with Facebook Promotion, is a fake. The lottery scamming website was created by scammers to trick their potential victims into sending them their personal information and money, by claiming they are lottery winners. Also, there is no Facebook lottery or promotion, so recipients of email messages who claim that they are winners of Facebook lotteries or promotions, should delete the messages and should not follow the instructions in them.

The Lottery Scamming Website: megamillionprize .tk

www.megamillionprize .tk

Please remember, there is no Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Hotmail, Outlook, Microsoft Live, AOL or Samsung lottery. So, recipients who have gotten email messages claiming they are winners in any of the previous listed lottery, should delete the messages because the email messages were sent by scammers attempting to trick their poential victims into sending them money.

Legitimate lottery companies will never ask their winners to send them their personal information or send them money in order to receive their lottery winnings.

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August 10, 2016 at 9:11 PM by
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Here is a sad story that we have received from a victim of Facebook lottery scam:

"On August 1 I received a message from a good friend on Facebook saying he had won the Facebook lottery and that I SHOULD CHECK IT OUT AS MY NAME WAS ON THE LIST. I did check the list and my name was one it and so I preceded to click on this lady Mary Allen who was supposedly in charge of the lottery and she then accepted me as her friend and then she told me I had won the Facebook lottery of 400,000.00 and that if I send them a $1000.00 dollars my winnings would be delivered to me in 4 hours.

I did think it was legit as my friend said he had won and got his money, but finding that this Mary Allen was using my name and profile to make me think that he had one and that I could get my winnings. I then waited the four hours and nothing came so was watching for her to chat with me and she had text me that they had an accident with the ups truck and in order to finish the delivery she needed another 220 and which then seeing the pictures of accident I sent her the money, which all money was sent by Moneygram, which I have all receipts for these transactions. Well then another four hours had past and she had text me saying that they got caught by the IRS and needed another 120 to finish coming to my house with my winnings in a box.

I then realized after talking to my friend that he had not won any such thing and they were using him as a way to get to me and then when she text me I refused to send anymore money as I knew than that it was a scam. I am now out of my bill money for my rent, lights, gas and other funds as she scammed me saying she was the president of Facebook. I am asking for my refunds to be refunded back to me as it was my social security money and I cant live the rest of the month this way."

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February 17, 2016 at 9:58 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Longview, Washington, United States

I was not contacted by Mr. James Waters, but I did receive a message on my phone through a friends profile on FB. The message was from a friend (or so I thought), saying that she had already received her money and she had seen my name on the winners list.

The message told me to call James Waters at 12176359350 and he would let me know what was needed to receive my money. I always ignore the emails about winning money but I was considering calling this guy because the message was from a friend. I'm glad I decided to check him out before I did anything.

Q. So how was he able to send me a message from a friends FB account? Is he hacking peoples online profiles as well?

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July 15, 2016 at 4:10 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Nashville, Tennessee, United States

I was text by a friend first then James Walters given me where to go on the internet I told my friend it was a joke.

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February 18, 2016 at 6:35 AM by
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They are cloning Facebook accounts and stealing Facebook users' usernames and passwords. Then they use the cloned and compromised Facebook accounts to trick the victims' friends into believing they are lottery winners.

So, not because messages appear as if they came from your friends, means that you should trust them.

Always ask the senders questions that only your friends can answer, to verify who they are.

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February 14, 2016 at 4:09 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Savannah, Georgia, United States

We got a message from Facebook to fill out www.megamillionprize .tk.I got a number from them, it is: 1-217-635-9350. They said I won 1000,000,00. I did not filled out the information.

We don't have money to give them. We cannot afford to put food on our own table. Please stop those people. They do have my cell phone only and they messaged me on my cell phone. This needs to get turned over to the FBI dept. They only got my cell phone and home address.

I am reporting it to you, please do something. I will save the message on my cell phone from them so the FBI can see it. Thanks.

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January 29, 2016 at 9:31 AM by
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an anonymous user from: San Jose, California, United States

My name is Rebecca. I was contacted through my friend, so I contacted the person and they said they are verifying it and I should go to gmail to make sure. I did not receive anything back. I told them if this was not true, I'm reporting them. . so I need help with this.

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February 2, 2016 at 1:29 AM by
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an anonymous user from: Everett, Washington, United States

Reporting it won't do nothing. There are so many of these scams out there, the law don't know what to do with them.

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February 2, 2016 at 1:27 AM by
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an anonymous user from: Everett, Washington, United States

Same as I, but I had reasons not to believe but on here checking it out.

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January 29, 2016 at 10:00 AM by
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It is a scam. Remember, never send money or personal information to anyone who contacted you on social media or via email claiming that you have won the lottery.

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January 21, 2016 at 11:52 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Petah Tikva, Merkaz, Israel

Hello, my name is Natan and I was contacted by James Waters, and he told me to claim my prize. I don't know what to do. If someone can help me, thanks.

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Scammers often update their tactics to keep up with the latest news or trends, but here are some common tactics used in phishing emails or text messages:

Phishing emails and text messages often tell a story to trick you into clicking on a link or opening an attachment. You might get an unexpected email or text message that looks like it’s from a company you know or trust, like a bank or a credit card or utility company. Or maybe it’s from an online payment website or app. The message could be from a scammer, who might

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  • offer a coupon for free stuff — it’s not real

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