Beware Lottery Scam!

Reply #7

goldrush — Sun, 28 May 2006 05:08:44 GMT

I forwarded the email to the UK lottery. Their response is below:

Thank you for contacting the Interactive Customer Care Team.

We would like to advise you that the email you have received is in no

way connected with Camelot or the National Lottery.

We would advise you to be aware that there are many e-mail scams and

attempts to de-fraud people using methods similar to these, and would

warn strongly against pursuing this type of e-mail without rigorous

investigation to establish wh... [ More ]

Reply #6

Tenaj — Sat, 27 May 2006 13:33:00 GMT

Just invest $70 a year and get a good security system (I use Norton's) that automately updates warfare for new viruses, spyware and spam and disables all pictures in e-mails, scan all incoming and outgoing e-mails and set up an automated scan once a week and when new viruses are created everyday it automately update the defense.

You can use the computer and do other stuff while it is scanning. It set the rules for all programs on your computer and it prohibits everything that try to access... [ More ]

Reply #5

truecritic — Sat, 27 May 2006 12:46:22 GMT

If you use Outlook Express (Outlook mentioned by Todd is a different program) and you are suspicious of an email, any email, you can safely take a peek of what is inside by doing the following:

1) Highlight and right click.

2) Choose Properties. Click Details. Click Message Source. Click to maximize the email.

3) If you are savvy enough, you can see the email cookie Todd mentioned, if it is there. Or possibly identify a virus/trojan within the email.

Reply #4

Todd — Sat, 27 May 2006 11:47:48 GMT

100% correct. NEVER reply to those e-mails, and NEVER post your e-mail address on a public forum.

ALSO:

Many e-mails programs (such as Microsoft Outlook) have a setting to disable all images embedded in e-mails. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you use that setting.

Here's the reason:

Many e-mail spammers send their spam with a tiny 1-pixel image inside the e-mail content, something you could never see. When your e-mail software loads the spam e-mail, your e-mail software, not realizing... [ More ]

Reply #3

Tenaj — Sat, 27 May 2006 11:28:28 GMT

You should never reply to those e-mails. If you do it validates your email address and you get on the mailing lists as a good email address for all sorts of scrams (also reply to spam) Our system's administrator screamed that at us all the time.

but send them to:

scams@fraudwatchinternational.com

There are lots of websites out there dedicated to catching these crooks.

Reply #2

LOTTOMIKE — Sat, 27 May 2006 09:05:26 GMT

Reply #1

bellyache — Sat, 27 May 2006 08:51:50 GMT

I never trust any so called "lottery" that I get in my email or regular mail that I didn't enter. It's simply really, but there are people desperate enough to fall for things like that.

Beware Lottery Scam!

goldrush — Sat, 27 May 2006 04:37:49 GMT

I got this email today. It's a total scam, it's not from the UK Lottery.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:

P O Box 1010 Liverpool,

L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM

(Customer Services)

FROM: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY:

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY A WINNER

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner,... [ More ]