Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Lottery - Donation
The email message below, which claims that the recipients are lottery winners of the South Carolina Education Lottery free-ticket draws of 2017, is a lottery scam. There is no such lottery. Every month, thousands of those email messages are sent out by lottery scammers, to trick their potential victims into sending them their personal information and money, to collect so-called lottery prizes. Always remember to verify the authenticity of a South Carolina Lottery prize or award by contacting them at their website at www.nc-educationlottery.org, and clicking on the "Contact" link. Also, never respond to an email message claiming that you are a lottery winner with your personal or financial information. Legitimate lottery companies do not request personal or financial information via email message, and will never ask winners to send money or financial information in order to collect their prizes.
Recipients of the scam are asked to delete it and should not follow the instructions in it.
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Did anyone actually enter the lottery because if you didn't you can't win.
Hi, I also received the same email. what should I do. Thanks and Godbless!
Just delete it.
Thanks for timely information, the same letter is received by me on my email today in India.
Thanks for the info. Just received same mail today here in Kenya.
How is this legal? Why are they still sending this false emails?
The same happened with my brother and I feel that fraud email. Nobody can earn this sum for free.
A friend of mine got this exact email today. I found this site very helpful and has prevented a possible fraud. Keep up the good work.
I got this scam in my email and numbers are the same as on the display sheet. Everything looks identical.
