Thread: Beware of Online Lottery Scams

One fine morning you get up and find your email filled with two or three messages that try to sweep away the earth under your feet! You get congratulations for winning some millions from such and such lottery and they wish to transfer the money to your account deducting all taxes and custom duties. So, you must provide correct bank account details and other information to transfer the money as soon as possible! Hurray you are a millionaire now! Ok, enough now calm down, such lottery winning mails are nothing more than online lottery scams that are going around and are either malware or adware to corrupt your system or to try to take your personal information of bank accounts to empty your account without a single cent in it.


Online lottery scams are one of the most fraudulent activities that you can find hitting the email boxes. Beware of all unsolicited emails that you inform you winning big sum of money out of the blues. When you have never tried to play any lottery how come you win one? These are no lottery or prize waiting for you but demons at the other end of the wire who are so expert hackers that one single detail of your bank account can be emptied by them. Online lottery scams are the most common form of internet scams that go around. There is no such lottery association which can offer such huge sum of money to your where you don’t play a single game.


There is another kind of online lottery scam where if you respond they further ask you to forward fees to cover the expenses of delivery and paper work and pay customs. This is actually a way to steal identity. These are cases of identity thefts. So, never initiate a dialogue with such online lottery mails. There are fraudsters that send thousands of mails to millions everyday with such good news of winning lotteries and becoming a millionaire.


This is nothing but a scam letter, you should simply send it to thrash or delete it. Keep your spam filter on to protect your mailbox from such scams.

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