Lottery crime

Sidestepping a Scam

Sidestepping a Scam Lottery scams, along with the number of lottery players who have fallen prey to these scams, have increased substantially over the last few years. Scams, dishonest schemes or fraud wreak havoc in the lottery world.Fraudsters take advantage of the dreams of players worldwide Continue Reading

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BigBig British National Lotto

The following image is a 419 scam email that has been circulating the internet for years now. It unfortunately uses one of our brands to legitimize it. We receive emails quite frequently asking the same question: “Is it true or is it a scam”. The letter as it stands is a scam and an attempt […]Continue Reading

Unlucky winners

Scammer phoned me and told me I had won the lottery!

“I received a call from an unknown person telling me that my numbers have come up in the Irish lottery. I have no ticket as I rarely do the lottery” This is just one of the plethora of Lottery Scams out there. Generally you will be sent an email however phoning can sound official too.The […]Continue Reading

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I just won 1.6 Million pounds sterling in the Royal Bank of Scotland lottery…

While I do believe all banks are essentially a type of lottery or more appropriately a ponzy scheme, chances are they are not going to pony up any amount of cash in an absurd thing like a free lottery.Firstly, if we allow common sense to take the soap box, it will tell us that Banks […]Continue Reading

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Lottery Scam

The following is email correspondence of  lottery scammers attempting to wittle some cash out of somebody using a typical 419, advanced fee fraud scam technique. Enjoy! From: Passinvernal Bank UK Date: 04/06/2012 12:29 pm Dear Mrs. Tom Cruise Thank you for your message, and also to remind that the documents you are asking for maybe […]Continue Reading

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Winning the Fake Euromillions

I thought I would write a little about the Euromillions 419 scams that have been going around for years, and it still surprises me when customers email in to our support desk crying that they just paid out $600 + USD in order to receive their prize. In a nut shell the scammer emails thousands […]Continue Reading

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Email correspondence of scammers.

The following is email correspondence of scammers attempting to wittle some cash out of somebody using a typical 419, advanced fee fraud scam technique. Enjoy! From: Passinvernal Bank UK Date: 04/06/2012 12:29 pm Dear Mrs. Tom Cruise Thank you for your message, and also to remind that the documents you are asking for maybe available […]Continue Reading

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UK National Lottery Scam

Here is a scam played on the UK National lottery –Continue Reading