Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams

The lottery scam email message below, which claims that the recipients are lottery winners in the Apple 2016 lottery or promotion, is a scam. The email message was NOT sent by Apple and there is no such lottery or promotion. The phishing email message was actually sent by cyber-criminals/scammers who are attempting to trick their potential victims into sending them money or personal information in order to collect their so-called lottery prize. Remember, never send your information or send money to anyone who claims that you have won the lottery. Legitimate lottery companies will never ask their winners to send money, or send their personal information via email or text message.

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Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams

The Apple Lottery Scam Email

Subject: Fwd: Re:‏
Attachment: applereward.pdf

This email is to inform you that your email address has just won you Nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($950,000.00 usd) and a IPHONE 6S, Apple MacBook Pro 15 inch (MC976HN/A) for this year 2016 lottery promotion, which is organized by the APPLE COMPANY INC, We collects all the email addresses of the people who are active online Yahoo and Hotmail, Gmail/other Emails, we only select Five people as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying

NOTE: FOR CLAIMS OF WINNING PRIZE YOU MUST CONTACT THE EMAIL BELOW WITH YOUR INFORMATION TO OPEN YOUR CLAIMS FILE.

Contact E-mail: (appleinc2016@ hotmail.com)

1. FULL NAMES: 2. HOUSE ADDRESS:

3. OCCUPATION: 4. SEX: 5. AGE:

6. DIRECT PHONE NO: 7. STATE: 8. COUNTRY:

Thank you and accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Recipients of the lottery scam email message should delete it, and recipients who have already sent their information, should be careful next time, because the cyber-criminals will use that information in an attempt to scam them. Once cyber-criminals or scammers have received their potential victims’ information, they will continue to call or send them messages, in an attempt to scam them.

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November 16, 2019 at 2:35 AM by
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an anonymous user from: Morton, Minnesota, United States

I received a e-mail from SqudI Aramco Crude oil. It said if I was not the intended recipient to delete it immediately. The supposed recipient was anditanaka@smartfren.com.

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April 21, 2019 at 2:39 PM by
Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams
an anonymous user from: Rosh HaAyin, Merkaz, Israel

I received an SMS that I won a lottery of 750,000 Euros. It says that I sent my data. I just want to let you know that someone is using your name.

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December 14, 2018 at 6:45 AM by
Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams
an anonymous user from: Wereda 03, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Here is another scam:

"Apple iPhone Lottery Corporation

PO Box 5500

922 Main Moncton, N.B.

E1C 8W6

CANADA

Dear Prize Winner,

Congratulations to you from the entire staff here at Apple iPhone Lottery, in your acquisition of Seven and Fifty Thousand Euro only (750,000.00 Euro) in our Mobile Promotional Draw held in New York,U.S.A on Wednesday 19, September 2018.Your Mobile number with serial number 3422/16 drew the lucky numbers: 16-24-27-40-41-42 Bonus 23, which subsequently won you the lottery in the Apple iPhone 49 Category of this promotion. All Mobile numbers used for this lottery draw, were selected randomly from Worldwide Telecommunication companies.

The Apple iphone Mobile Promotional program takes place weekly and the program is held to financially support individuals worldwide due to the global financial crisis, the draw process is carried out by our Computerized Ballot System and all winners were randomly selected from a series of three million mobile numbers from different continent. You should count yourself lucky that your mobile phone number was among the five(5) lucky numbers that was selected to win 3,750,000.00 Euro each in the August 2018 edition of this program. Be informed that your winning prize money also comes with other consolation prizes such as a Apple iphone Lotto T-Shirt, Customized Apple iPhone 8 plus {Courtesy of Apple}.

Following our claims procedures, a Certified Bank Check will be issued in your name after your claim information have been verified and approved by the Lottery Corporation Payment Service (L.C.P.S). Below is our WINNER CLAIM FORM which you are required to fill and return back to us for proper verification and processing of your claim.The requested information are needed for reference purpose, update of our record and to avoid any misrepresentation of fact which might lead to disqualification or double claims. You MUST be 18 years of age or older to claim this prize. To proceed with the release of your winnings to you, kindly fill up the details below and return to us via email:

WINNER CLAIM FORM:

1. Full Name:

2. Contact Address:

3. Nationality:

4. Age:

5. Mobile No:

6. S*x:

7. Marital Status:

8. Occupation:

9. Amount Won:

Upon the receipt of the required information, we will immediately commence with verification and processing of your claim so as to facilitate payment to you. All winners are expected to comply with the claims procedures, as these are mere formalities that would guarantee pay out to all qualified winners in the various category. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claim is processed and your money remitted to you, this is part of our precautionary measure to avoid unwarranted abuse to this program by some unscrupulous elements.

Congratulations once again.

Sincerely,

Kelly Moore (Mr)

Claim Processing Officer

Apple iPhone Lottery Corporation"

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December 14, 2018 at 6:30 AM by
Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams
an anonymous user from: Wereda 03, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The same message went to me. I sent my addresses, phone number, and my full name what should I do?

I just received this text message:

"You won 750,000 Euro iphonelotto send Email:appleiphonepromo31@gmail.com"

In addition, this is the email:

info.fastservicecourier11@gmail.com.

Thank you, I am from Ethiopia -Addis

Delete

December 3, 2018 at 10:00 PM by
Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams
an anonymous user from: Amman, Jordan

The same message went to me. I sent my addresses, phone number and my full name what should I do?

Delete

December 4, 2018 at 12:40 AM by
Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams
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Just be careful going forward. The scammers will contact you and attempt to trick you into sending the money. But, do not send them your money or anymore information.

Delete

September 30, 2018 at 2:54 PM by
Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams
an anonymous user from: La Paz, Bolivia

I get the same, I'm from Bolivia.

Delete

September 9, 2018 at 3:36 PM by
Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams
an anonymous user from: Petah Tikva, Merkaz, Israel

I just received this txt messagev

"You won 750,000 Euro iphonelotto send Email:appleiphonepromo31@gmail.com"

Delete

September 3, 2018 at 2:40 PM by
Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams
an anonymous user from: Cairo, Egypt

Received this:

"Your Mobile Won 750,000Euro IphoneLotto send Email appleiphonepromo30@gmail.com"

Delete

August 6, 2018 at 6:37 AM by
Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams
an anonymous user from: Cairo, Egypt

I just received this txt message!

"You won 750,000 Euro in ongoing Iphone promo send Email:appleiphonepromo30@gmail.com"

and my number is(01111015940)

Delete

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Apple 2016 Lottery Promotion Scams