WhatsApp Global Award 2019 Lottery Scam

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  • Updated: February 21, 2020 2020-02-21T18:30:38
  • Date: July 30, 2019
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WhatsApp Global Award 2019 Lottery Scam

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There is no "WhatsApp Global Award 2019." 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.

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.

A "WhatsApp Global Award 2019" Lottery Scam

Subject: Scammer

DEAR WHATS-APP WINNER,YOUR WHATS-APP NO HAS WON RS. 2 CRORE 75 LAKH IN THE WHATSAPP GLOBAL AWARD 2019.FOR CLAIM,SEND NAME:AD:MOBILE:AGE:TO: rbi@rbidelhigovn.in

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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  • March 5, 2020 at 6:56 AM by an anonymous user from: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    I have received a message like this. What I can do?

    • May 30, 2020 at 8:03 PM by an anonymous user from: Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico

      "WhatsApp Admin

      Dear Email User,

      This email address was automatically generated and selected during WHATSAPP WEB GLOBAL AWARDS yearly International Online Promotions draw held in Johannesburg South Africa and won $2,820,000.00 USD (Two Million Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars Only) linked to the above subject line reference number. The award money is payable through a bank cheque, Prepaid Debit Card or direct bank transfer.

      Your email address is linked to the above subject line REF#:

      Kindly provide the below information to our paying agency below for the of your payment:"

      Here is another scam.

    • March 5, 2020 at 7:07 AM by info

      Do not follow the instructions in it, just delete it.

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