Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
If you received a text message allegedly from the Arizona couple who won Mega Millions $414 million jackpot, claiming your telephone number has been randomly chosen to receive one million, is a scam. If you have received the same text, please do not respond or follow the instructions in it. Just delete it.
"We are the arizona couple megamillions $414 million jackpot winner. With great joy, your phone number was selected through a random computer ballot system submitted to us by US Telco database to benefit from our giveback project during this pandemic.A donation of $1 million is made out to enable you strengthen your personal issues and generously extend hands of help to the less privileged, orphans and charity organizations within your locality.Send a message of acceptance to my attorney Mr Bentata including your Name.."
"We are the arizona couple megamillions $414 million jackpot winner. With great joy, your phone number was selected through a random computer ballot system submitted to us by US Telco database to benefit from our giveback project during this pandemic.
A donation of $1 million is made out to enable you strengthen your personal issues and generously extend hands of help to the less privileged, orphans and charity organizations within your locality.
Send a message of acceptance to my attorney Mr Bentata including your Name.."
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just got a text saying We are Arizona couples saying we were randomly selected they are giving away 200,000 to 50 individuals and to send a a text to a number.
Is anyone working on catching these cyber criminals?
I just got mine for 20,000 delete
"Hello, We are the Gilbert Arizona couple Tammy and Cliff Webster, that won the Powerball Lottery Jackpot of $473 millions on April 27th, 2022. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/05/04/powerball-winner-arizona-4731-million-jackpot/9643901002/ We are donating $20,000.00 each to 50 random individuals, if you're among those who got this message then your number was selected luckily after a spin ball. We chose permanent anonymity so in order to claim your donations, Kindly text your Full Name to Mr. Rick Lewis on (813) 296-2957"***They now lowered the amount to $20,000***Nobody gives a large sum of money for nothing. There's always a catch; and that catch is, your personal info/identity theft/money theft etcAlways Google everything you receive on text
What do the scammers do with the information?
They may sell it to other scammers, who will contact you and attempt to trick you into sending them money for a lottery that does not exist.
