You might be one of those people who received dozens of emails from a far away country, coming from an unknown company telling you that you won great sum money. I remember my first email lottery winning notification. The letter sounds convincing. It shows the detail of how I won, how much is it, and how can I claim my prize money. The instruction was detailed, looks believable except from the fact that I never joined online and offline lottery nor sweepstakes.
On one hand, the letter says that I won from a random email lottery and that my email address with an attached number was picked among billions of users. But wait, before you get too overwhelm with the thought of winning the lottery, you should take note that there is no such thing as random email lottery or sweepstakes. What’’s makes it more suspicious is because you got it for free. Lotteries and sweepstakes are definitely not free; the winning prize comes from the accumulated sale of the lottery or sweepstakes tickets. These rotating emails are one of those internet frauds or online scams devised by people who want to earn easy money.
Yes, this is just a part of an online scam campaign done by people who are taking advantage of lottery winner hopefuls. There are several well-respected worldwide lotteries and sweepstakes offered and winning such prizes has been the stuff of dreams. However, chances are excellent that you would remember entering the sweepstakes if indeed you did. Remember that lottery sweepstakes are not free or at least you should have done something to acquire it.
Primarily, lottery and sweeps-takes drawings are done for a cause. Hopefully a good and respected cause of merit. These are effective methods to raise funds for charitable institutions and different foundations. The proceeds are bound to support various educational programs and medical assistance both locally and across the world.
Now, as for email lottery scam, they will ask you to fill out a form or provide essential information as part of process of claiming the price. This includes your banking details and some personal information including your SSS number. Beware that these pieces of information can be used by the scammer to take advantage of you or utilize to scam others. You might get into trouble by giving them your information. So in the end, the great advice that I could give you is to stay away from these notifications and just delete them if you get a chance. You can also tag them as spam so that other email user will be warned about this online fraud campaign.
