Lottery scams: Spot them to better avoid them

In its most classic form, the lottery scam is an advance fee fraud that started in 2004 and is mainly carried out by Yahoo boys.. They try to make you believe that you have won a lottery in which you did not even participate.The recovery of the funds (obviously non-existent) is conditioned to the payment of taxes and various fees.

Mainly spread by e-mail, this scam regularly displays brands known to the general public (Microsoft, Lotto, Apple Awards...).

More recently and especially on social networks, the lottery scam can take another form: a lottery is used as a pretext to direct you to a fake contest. Once you have paid a few euros, you will find yourself involved in a hidden subscription scam.

On this page you will find many examples of lottery scams.

To report a scam of this kind, we invite you to use this online form.

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04/11/2020... This site is definitely a scam site. Because I have attended at least 250 lottery so far, but it is 0.1 gram in all. This is not mathematically possible. At least 5 of them must definitely come to 1000 grams. This never happened. Reference gains are not ref
Julie Leach ala julie13_1642_ (6 comments) > Lottery Scam
05/20/2023... Someone claiming to be Julie Leach messages me on Instagram ready to gift $30,000 and asked me to sign up with a site called rely vault. I was surprised to find that there was no app available as most banking services have one. This person seemed too eager to
Patricia Busking (25 comments) > Lottery Scam
07/29/2022... I guess anything is possible. But what are the chances that there is a person like this that is so generous that they want to give their money away. Too good to be true I would say. Seems the scammer wants to attract attentionand hack into personal or bank acc
+13239497400 Dave Johnson (3 comments) > Lottery Scam
10/25/2022... These fraudsters are scamming people out of their money by pretending to be Dave Johnson, the lottery winner. At a later stage, they will ask you to pay fees and taxes first. Do not believe them.
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07/26/2022... Comment / Review: I visited the website, but i didn't give any information. I automatically exits the website, after I suspected that it's a scam or phishing website

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+16084218952 > Phone Fraud
5 days ago... Cellphone text message received photo image. Hello I'm Laarni Bibal the winner of $522 Million in Dan Diego, California State Lottery on June 7th 2019/2023. 1 have voluntarily decided to start assisting individuals financially so lI'm donating the sum of $500
davidsmithclaimagentlondoneu@onet.eu PRIVATEGNL PRIVATE (1 comment) > Lottery Scam
6 days ago... Comment / Review: Sad state of affairs nowadays, where people are too damn lazy to work & would rather scam others out of their hard earned money. They can go jump!!!
IOTA Lottery (1 comment) > Other Scam
03/26/2024... People receive a NFT in their Firefly wallet. The NFT massage says that you have won 2000 IOTA. When clicking on that link a fake wallet login appears. Ehen the scammers receive your wallet information, your balance will be lost.
+22242515147 Tmlsmals8 > Lottery Scam
03/16/2024... Hello,scamwatcher. My friend was in this website (tmlsmals) as lottery stacked.he upload money on his wallet to stack it.he win first time he redraw it successful.he the upload money again to stacke another lottery this times he won and you use the money to s
support@usagco.org +18882721564 > Lottery Scam
03/13/2024... Comment / Review: I have blocked the credit card.. Scam contents: I can enter the US Green Card Lottery with a deposit of $39.. SUSPECTED SCAM!

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