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A couple of criminals going by the names "Mr Fred Martin" and "Mrs. Dianne Thompson" mocked up this fake lottery winning notification from Camelot for an email lottery. The only problem is NO lottery, including Camelot, notifies winners, there is no email lottery run by Camelot in the UK and if there were, you can be sure they wouldn't write to you from free Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts.
Of course, there are only two legal lotteries in Britain, the National Lottery and the Monday Lottery , anyway, and they do NOT use email to notify winners. Below is a scam email actually received.
DO NOT reply to any emails you receive that claim you have won a lottery that you did not enter. They are frauds. You will lose your money. There is no "free lunch"; don't be foolish and believe a scam! We can not say it any more plainly: YOU WILL NOT BE NOTIFIED BY EMAIL BY ANY LEGITIMATE LOTTERY THAT YOU WON A PRIZE. If you do receive such an email, it IS a fraud, do not reply to it! If you DID reply to one, click here to see what you will likely receive back.
For your education and entertainment, we have highlighted some of the obvious clues that this is a scam; such as the use of a free Yahoo email account and the omnipresent claim that your "email address attached to ticket..." was the key to winning. As if email addresses are used to hand out money...
In the UK, call the hotline at 020 7211 8111 to check or report lottery scams.
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