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The "Chrismas WhatsApp Awareness Promo" Lottery Scam

There is no "Chrismas WhatsApp Awareness Promo" lottery. Therefore, online users who have received e-mail messages like the one below, which claim they are winners in such a lottery or promotion are asked not to follow the instructions in them because they are lottery scams being sent by scammers.

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Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by lottery scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and subsequently asking them to send money in order to receive their so-called lottery prize. Sending your personal information to these cyber-criminals will only help them rip you off or steal your money. Therefore, online users who have received the same email messages are asked to delete them.

The "Chrismas WhatsApp Awareness Promo" Lottery Scam

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM WHATSAPP INC;WINNING NOTIFICATION, COUNTRY :MAURITIUS,

WINNING PHONE NO: +230 5 ....

AMOUNT WON : £1M POUNDS (RS50 MILLION

WHATSAPP NUMBER: + +30 698 840 1524 (WhatsApp Only)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear WhatsApp Lottery Winner,

We happily announce to you that your mobile phone number have won A Lucky Prize of GBP 1,000,000.00M (One Million Great British Pounds Sterling) from Chrismas WhatsApp Awareness Promo in collaboration with Greece Lottery Commission.

Your winning ticket number is: 0122/2018/19 and your Serial number 0211/2018/19 respectively.NOTE:Every WhatsApp User was a participant to this Promo and selection was done randomly through a computer draw system, extracted from WhatsApp Users data base worldwide.This promotion takes place yearly to support the less priviledge in the society and as part of our Social Corporate Responsibility.

For prize claim and payment,kindly provide the following information via our WhatsApp number +30 698 840 1524 (WhatsApp only)

1.Name

2.Address

3.Age

4.Sex

5.Profession.

6.Winning ticket number

7.Serial number

This info will enable us prepare a Certificate of Winning and other releavant paper works for cheque procurement.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.Please be warned!.Note:WhatsApp Inc. will not be blamed for your inability to claim this prize within the stipulated time flame available under the British laws.Please call/sms +44 745 227 3143.

Yours in service,

Dr. B. Adams,

Coordinator, WhatsApp Lottery

NB...

PLEASE ONLY REPLY/SEND WHATSAPP SMS TO :+30 698 840 1524 NOTE THIS PHONE NUMBER WILL BE UNATTENDED TO AFTER 21 DAYS FROM NOW AND IF THAT HAPPENS CALL/SMS +44 745 227 3143. NOTE: WE ARE USING GOOGLE TRANSLATION, PLEASE ALWAYS WRITE US IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE.DO NOT SEND MESSAGE TO THE SENDER OF THIS MESSAGE IE +234..... THANK YOU.

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WHATSAPP INC; NOTIFICATION GAGNANTE PAYS: MAURICE,

Numéro de téléphone gagnant: +230 5....

MONTANT GAGNÉ: £ 1M POUNDS = (RS50 MILLIONS)

NUMÉRO WHATSAPP +30 698 840 1524 (WhatsApp uniquement)

TOUTES NOS FÉLICITATIONS!!!

Cher gagnant de la loterie WhatsApp,

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