"Alphabet World Apps Ballot Award" Lottery Scam
There is NO "Alphabet World Apps Ballot Award" like the one below, which claims to be giving away thousands or millions of dollars. Therefore, online users who have received email or text messages claiming that they are winners in this so-called lottery are asked to delete them and should not follow the instructions in them. This is because the fake email messages are being sent by lottery scammers.
An "Alphabet World Apps Ballot Award" Lottery Scam
PRIZE ALERT!Congratulations!!!
Your Mobile number has been selected as the auspicious champ of Four Hundred Thousand Dollars(400,000.00 USD)in the Alphabet World Apps ballot award. Payment Ref:APHT-US/ VBAPP7231. Please contact (payment@alphabetballot.com) to receive your won prize fund. Thank you for being part of our community, and for helping to connect the world free.
IT'S YOUR LUCKY DAY! Please contact payment@alphabetballot.com )for your payment.
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 "Alphabet World Apps Ballot Award" 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.
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