The National Lottery Email Scams: Beware

The email message below, which claims that the recipients are lottery winners in The National Lottery is a fake or scam. 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. Also, never respond to an email message that claims that you are a lottery winner with your personal or financial information. Legitimate lottery companies do not request personal or financial information via an email message, and will never ask winners to send money or financial information in order to collect their prizes.

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The National Lottery Email Scams  Beware

A "The National Lottery" Lotto Scam

From: The National Lottery admin-hrdga@idt-shipping.co.id

Date: 02/10/2019 10:16 (GMT+00:00)

To: Recipients <admin-hrdga@idt-shipping.co.id>

Subject: Congratulations

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

Attention : Email Account Owner,

Congratulations! Sequel to the recently held international lottery draw, we are happy to announce that you have won the UK international award prize of £275,000 ( Two hundred and seventy five thousand British Pounds Sterling).

Your active e-mail addresses attached to computer generated ticket number : DUK92661-00H with reference number 004910108366 has won the UK lottery 2nd category award price.

Contact our claims agent immediately to commence the release of your award price by providing the details as listed below :

1. Full Name

2. Age and Occupation

3. Ticket number and Reference Number

4. Phone Number

5. City and Country

Contact our accredited agent below for your claim :

UK National Lottery Payment Officer

Leicester Regional center

Mr. Robert Lewis

Congratulations once again.

Yours Faithfully,

Rebecca M. Fernandez

Online Coordinator,

The UK International Lottery Promotion Inc.

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June 22, 2020 at 1:24 AM by
The National Lottery Email Scams: Beware
an anonymous user from: Camberwell, England, United Kingdom

Received 21/6/2020

Deleted and blocked the sender

"THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

Attention : Email Account Owner,

Congratulations! Following the recently held international lottery draw, we are happy to announce that you have won the UK international award prize of £275,000 ( Two hundred and seventy five thousand British Pounds Sterling).

Your active e-mail addresses attached to computer generated ticket number : DUK92661-00H with reference number 004910108366 has won the UK lottery 2nd category award prize.

Contact our claims agent immediately to commence the release of your award prize by providing the details as listed below :

1. Full Name

2. Age and Occupation

3. Ticket number and Reference Number

4. Phone Number

5. City and Country

Contact our accredited agent below for your claim :

UK National Lottery Payment Officer

Leicester Regional centre

Mr. Robert Lewis

Congratulations once again.

Yours Faithfully,

Rebecca M. Fernandez

Online Coordinator,

The UK International Lottery Promotion Inc."

Delete

June 21, 2020 at 9:50 AM by
The National Lottery Email Scams: Beware
info

"From: The National Lottery <Mail@thenationallottery.co.uk>

Date: 20 June 2020 at 17:18:09 BST

To: Recipients <Mail@thenationallottery.co.uk>

Subject: Congratulations

Reply-To: Robertlewis@keemail.me



THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

Attention : Email Account Owner,

Congratulations! Following the recently held international lottery draw, we are happy to announce that you have won the UK international award prize of £275,000 ( Two hundred and seventy five thousand British Pounds Sterling).

Your active e-mail addresses attached to computer generated ticket number : DUK92661-00H with reference number 004910108366 has won the UK lottery 2nd category award prize.

Contact our claims agent immediately to commence the release of your award prize by providing the details as listed below :

1. Full Name

2. Age and Occupation

3. Ticket number and Reference Number

4. Phone Number

5. City and Country ..."

Here is another scam.

Delete

June 21, 2020 at 9:49 AM by
The National Lottery Email Scams: Beware
info

"From: The National Lottery <Mail@thenationallottery.co.uk>

Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2020 12:05:05 AM

To: Recipients <Mail@thenationallottery.co.uk>

Subject: Congratulations

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

Attention : Email Account Owner,

Congratulations! Following the recently held international lottery draw, we are happy to announce that you have won the UK international award prize of £275,000 ( Two hundred and seventy five thousand British Pounds Sterling).

Your active e-mail addresses attached to computer generated ticket number : DUK92661-00H with reference number 004910108366 has won the UK lottery 2nd category award prize.

Contact our claims agent immediately to commence the release of your award prize by providing the details as listed below :

1. Full Name

2. Age and Occupation

3. Ticket number and Reference Number

4. Phone Number

5. City and Country

Contact our accredited agent below for your claim :

UK National Lottery Payment Officer

Leicester Regional centre

Mr. Robert Lewis

Congratulations once again.

Yours Faithfully,

Rebecca M. Fernandez

Online Coordinator,

The UK International Lottery Promotion Inc."

Here is another scam.

Delete

June 11, 2020 at 8:38 AM by
The National Lottery Email Scams: Beware
an anonymous user from: Wirral, England, United Kingdom

"THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

Attention : Email Account Owner,

Congratulations! Following the recently held international lottery draw, we are happy to announce that you have won the UK international award prize of £275,000 ( Two hundred and seventy five thousand British Pounds Sterling).

Your active e-mail addresses attached to computer generated ticket number : DUK92661-00H with reference number 004910108366 has won the UK lottery 2nd category award prize.

Contact our claims agent immediately to commence the release of your award prize by providing the details as listed below :

1. Full Name

2. Age and Occupation

3. Ticket number and Reference Number

4. Phone Number

5. City and Country

Contact our accredited agent below for your claim :

UK National Lottery Payment Officer

Leicester Regional centre

Mr. Robert Lewis"

Here is another scam.

Delete

June 11, 2020 at 8:36 AM by
The National Lottery Email Scams: Beware
an anonymous user from: Wirral, England, United Kingdom

from amatuer scammer probably from nigerian pond life

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April 20, 2020 at 12:55 PM by
The National Lottery Email Scams: Beware
info

"From: Uk Promo <cleonecio@beq.com.br>

Date: April 19, 2020 at 9:59:11 PM MST

Subject: Winning Notification

Reply-To: Uk Promo <cocacolaclaimsdept2020@outlook.com>

Good morning.

You've just won £950,000 from the British National Lottery.

held on 16th Of April 2020, sponsored by the Coca-Cola company in conjunction with Uk national lottery board as part of good will for corvid19 stimulus package. You must

contact us to find out how to claim your prize in cash.

Please fill out the verification form below and send it via

e-mail the complaint officer:

Barrister Gordon Hills

cocacolaclaimsdept2020@outlook.com

REF NO: cocacola-3456003/ 11 E

) FULL NAME:

) AGE:

3.) S*X:

4.) ADDRESS:

5.) COUNTRY:

6.) TELEPHONE:

7.) OCCUPATION/POSITION:

Greetings to

Otero Cynthia

Program Manager"

Here is another scam.

Delete

March 2, 2020 at 8:35 AM by
The National Lottery Email Scams: Beware
info

"From: Park David Wung <system@keynote.net.cn>

Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 7:05 AM

Subject: E-Notification!

The National Lottery

P.O.Box 1010

Liverpool L70 1NL. United Kingdom

(Customer service) NOTIFICATION DESK

Attention: Email Account Holder,

We are happy to announce you through Electronic mail platform that your email address emerged winner in the National Lottery email jackpot in our GLOBAL annual random draw winning promo that took place in Atlanta USA, Your active e-mail address attached to our computer during the annual random computer draw generated ticket winning number of: 56475600545188 has won Ј1.5 million great British Pounds in the National Lottery second category proportion draw.

For security reasons we advise all winners to keep this information confidential until they receive you their winning, this is part of our security policy to avoid claiming of your winning by third party with fake identity and by non-participant.

For more details about your winning prize contact Mr. Mike Johnson for immediate processing of your winning by filling in the information below

Full Name :

Home Address :

Gender :

Occupation :

Nationality

Age :

Telephone Number :

Mr. Mike Johnson

Foreign Service Manager

Watford Regional Centre

Tolpits Lane, Watford WD18 9RN .ENGLAND

E-mail: mikejohnson77@aliyun.com

Congratulations

Online Co-coordinator

Teresa Marie Roberts"

Here is another scam.

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February 1, 2020 at 9:29 PM by
The National Lottery Email Scams: Beware
info

"You have won

Sat 2/1/2020 3:21 PM

From: "The National Lottery"

To: Recipients

ATTN: WINNER

You have won the sum of 18 Million Pounds Sterling in the Just concluded National Lottery of the United Kingdom.Kindly contact your fiduciary agent Via email for more information.

Name: Gerald Westwood

Email : fiduciaryagent1993@gmail.com

National Lottery Management"

Here is another scam.

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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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