What is a lottery scam?

A type of lottery scam started with an email or letter stating that you are the lucky winner of a lottery. Once you answer, you are invited to send a small processing fee or a fee to transfer funds from your account. Second, be a long process, in which the lottery company will ask you to provide your bank account and identity details. Once you provide all these and several other fees that the lottery application, you sent a check, which is a forgery. False lottery uses the name of a real lottery as well. These companies also use your contact information to defraud others and the next thing you know, since fraud is committed in your name, you are arrested and locked up in prison.

Here is an overview of some of the characteristics of these scams letter contains: --

- They use names of some of the famous lotteries: lottery famous names such as the following are used to deceive people, Bingo Lottery International, Blue Fountain Lottery International, Lottery Apple in the United Kingdom, Australian International Lottery program, Canadian lottery and Diamond International lottery are some of the names used by fraudsters.

- If you have not bought a lottery ticket, then you do not have to worry about it.

- You May not have bought a lottery ticket, but you can be a victim of a lottery scam. Fraudsters use e-mail lottery to pick you as a winner. So even if you never bought a lottery ticket in your life, you may be eligible for e-mail. Therefore, the notification will be in the sense of "you are the 50th recipient of the email email lottery diamond and good news to go explain how you can claim your money.

- Spelling and grammar is crazy, half the time you do not understand what they mean.

- Send request for money to secure your winnings. Money is needed for processing costs and administrative costs.

- The address and contact details of the lottery are not consistent.

- The e-mail you receive the e-mail is a yahoo or a g-mail.

- If you are sent a letter there is no return address, only a toll free number which may be a mobile number.

- The email is a generic email and is not really addressed to you. These messages are sent in bulk emails. There is nothing personal about them.

- You are invited to respond immediately or the winnings will be given to someone else.

- The latest trends for the crooks have been using phone calls and notify the winner by phone.

- There May be an application to allow you to travel the country to collect your winnings. There are many people who have been scammed Travel to different countries to collect their winnings to discover they were wrong.

- If you were contacted by telephone, May you get a phone number to call. But the scammers never give a chance for you to call them, they continue to call you repeatedly.

Lottery scams are sometimes dangerous than you or a family member may end up being hurt physically.