Microsoft word lottery scam

What to do if you think you have been the victim of a lottery scam. Also see this page for a sample in the UK. Click here for the huge list of the names of the currently identified lottery scams companies.

And please let us know about any suspicious calls or emails you receive. We look for patterns so that we can alert the authorities and victims to new scams, before it is too late!

For a comprehensive list of national and international agencies to report scams, see this page. Names used by scammers in the examples on this page and others often belong to real people and businesses who often have no knowledge of nor connection to the scammer's use of their name and information. Sample scam emails and other documents presented on this website are real copies of the scam to help potential victims recognize and avoid it.

We assume they dropped out of school before that class. They often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to be "22nd". These scammers usually write at the 3rd grade level. Being non-native English speakers, they also often get first names and surnames last names reversed , so you will frequently see names like "Mr.

James Smith", along with the peculiar usage of periods full stops and spaces or the lack thereof. Real lotteries also proofread their emails and look and read more professional. Don't you think a real organization would use it's own email, it's own domain and website? Why would Microsoft be writing to you from their competitor's Google in this case, gmail email service? Keep Confidential - Real lotteries THRIVE on publicity - they don't want you to keep anything secret - the publicity causes people to buy more tickets.

The scammer want you to keep quiet because they don't want the police or ConsumerFraudreporting to hear about them! It should read: "For our own security, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential until we have finished scamming you! End of story. There mere fact ALONE that you received an email saying you won a lottery is proof that it is a scam.

Master list of sample lottery scam emails. What to do if you think you have been the victim of a lottery scam. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of GBP5,, This is from total prize money of GBP 27,, All participants were selected through our microsoft computer ballot system drawn form 21, names,3, names from each continent, as part ofInternational "E-MAIL" Promotions Program, which is conducted annually for our prominent MS WORD user all over the world, and for the continues use of E-mail.

We are sorry to let you know that our site is still under construction, as we are updating our site. People have been uploading emails sent from a certain Dr.

Eliz Henning where they were informed of being awarded money. Everyone who received this mail has been asking if the Microsoft Lottery Award is scam. Because we are concerned about the financial safety of our readers, we did an extensive research and made a review on Microsoft Award Lottery. Please read our review before you decide if you should agree to their email message. Scammers have been disguising as staff members of Microsoft and sending emails to potential victims. The recipients of the mail were asked to forward the winning number assigned to them to another email which is so unrelated to Microsoft.