Beware of "International Ballot Lottery Award Draw" Scam at iblottery.com
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The "International Ballot Lottery Award Draw" Lotto Scam
From: "nazar Muhammad" <nacc.kdr44@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 18, 2017 10:26 AM
Subject: re: Contact Us
Congratulations.
Dear Esteemed Lucky Winner
Your email has been Selected as the Auspicious Champ of Five Hundred United States Dollars.( 500,000.00 USD) In the International Ballot Lottery Award Draw.
We deeply congratulate for winning the sum of Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($500,000.00 USD) in the just concluded World Email International ballot Lottery. All participants emails in this lottery program were selected randomly through our computer ballot system, drawn from 97.000.000.00 email addresses from around the world. Your email was selected by the automated computer ballot system, which was programmed for this random selection.
Payment Ref : ( IBL/ VB/W779 )
Please Contact ( winnings@iblottery.com ) with the Reference above to receive your Won Prize Fund.
Thank You for being part of our Community and for Helping us connect the World Free.
Sincerely
Rick Winnai
Operations Executive
IBL.
The fake email message is being sent out to potential victims by lottery scammers to trick them into believing they are winners in the so-called "International Ballot Lottery Award Draw" promotion. The scammers make the scam more convincing by claiming the potential victims were selected randomly through a computer ballot system, therefore, no participation was needed.
If the potential victims respond to the fake lottery email message, the scammers will respond asking them to send personal information in order to collect their so-called prize. Once the information has been sent, the scammers will ask the potential victims to send money, which they will claim is for taxes, processing fees, delivery fee, or some other fee. If the potential victims send the money, the lottery scammers will take it and disappear. The victims, on the other hand, will not receive the prize or money that they were promised and will be a few hundreds or thousands of dollars broke.
This is why online users should never send money or personal information to anyone who claims that they are winners in some so-called lottery. Legitimate lottery companies do not ask their winners to send money or personal information in order to collect their prizes.
Note: Some of the names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers or other information in samples on this website may have been impersonated or spoofed.
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