{"id":1464,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1464"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Fake-'National-Lottery'-Winning-Notification-Emails-Still-Hitting-Inboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1464","title":{"rendered":"Fake &#8216;National Lottery&#8217; Winning Notification Emails Still Hitting Inboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nEmail claiming to be from The National Lottery in the UK announces \u00a0that you have \u00a0won  \u00a3810,000 via the &#8216;UK international Online Lottery Award&#8217; and should contact the fiduciary agent to claim your prize.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Brief Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe National Lottery did not send the email. You have not won any money. The email is a scam designed to trick you into sending your money and personal information to Internet criminals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-1264\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1264\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-national-lottery-winning-notification-emails-still-hitting-inboxes\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,924\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1-260x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1264\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg\" alt=\"National Lottery Advance Fee Scam\" width=\"800\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1-768x887.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/national-lottery-advance-fee-scam-2016-1-173x200.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Detailed Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAccording to this email, which purports to be \u00a0from The National Lottery, you have won \u00a0 \u00a3810,000 in the \u00a0&#8216;UK international Online Lottery Award&#8217; .  \u00a0The email claims that your email address was attached to a computer generated ticket number and you have \u00a0therefore won the UK Lottery&#8217;s 2nd category prize. It instructs you to \u00a0email your personal details to the \u00a0Fiduciary Claim agent \u00a0Mr Eric Boyd to &#8216;commence the release of your lottery prize&#8217;.  \u00a0The \u00a0message is supposedly signed by the lottery&#8217;s online coordinator and features The National Lottery logo.<\/p>\n<p>The National Lottery is a real UK based lottery organisation.  \u00a0However, it did not send this email and the claim that you have won a prize in the lottery is untrue. The email is a typical advance fee scam designed to trick you into sending your money and personal information to criminals.<\/p>\n<p>If you reply to &#8216;Eric Boyd&#8217; as instructed, you will soon be told that you must send money to cover expenses supposedly related to the processing of your prize claim. You will be told that this money must be paid in advance and cannot be taken out of the prize itself. You will be warned that, if you do not send money to cover all of the required fees, you will never receive your lottery prize. &#8216;Eric&#8217; will claim that your money is needed to pay banking and delivery fees, tax fees, insurance fees, legal fees, and a host of other &#8211; totally imaginary &#8211; expenses. Of course, all of the money you send will go straight into the coffers of the criminals  \u00a0running the scam and you will never see a cent of it again. Still using the, \u00a0non-existent,  \u00a0 \u00a3810,000 as bait, &#8216;Eric&#8217; will continue asking you \u00a0to send money until you run out of funds or finally realise \u00a0that you are being conned.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, during the course of \u00a0the scam, you may have \u00a0been asked \u00a0to provide a considerable amount of your personal an financial information, ostensibly to prove your identity and allow transfer of your prize money. The scammers may later use this accumulated information to steal your identity.<\/p>\n<p>Because The National \u00a0Lottery \u00a0is well-known even outside of the UK, criminals often use its name and logos in their scam messages. I <a title=\"UK NATIONAL LOTTERY SCAM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/uk-national-lottery.html\">first wrote about<\/a> such National Lottery scams more than a decade ago and I&#8217;ve <a title=\"UK National Lottery Scams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/uk-national-lottery-scams.shtml\">revisited the \u00a0topic<\/a> several times since. Despite a lot of publicity about <a title=\"Advance Fee Lottery Scams - International Lottery Scam Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/email-lottery-scams.html\">advance fee lottery scams<\/a> like this one, they continue to find new victims every \u00a0day.<\/p>\n<p>The National Lottery has <a title=\"The National Lottery - Security\" href=\"https:\/\/www.national-lottery.co.uk\/security?icid=bsp:na:tx\">information about these scam attempts<\/a> on its website.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\"\n     data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p class=\"date\">Last updated: March 16, 2016<br \/>\nFirst published: March 16, 2016<br \/>\nBy Brett M. Christensen<br \/>\n<a class=\"foot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/about.shtml\">About Hoax-Slayer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">References<br \/>\n<a title=\"UK NATIONAL LOTTERY SCAM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/uk-national-lottery.html\">UK NATIONAL LOTTERY SCAM<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"UK National Lottery Scams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/uk-national-lottery-scams.shtml\">UK National Lottery Scams<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"The National Lottery - Security\" href=\"https:\/\/www.national-lottery.co.uk\/security?icid=bsp:na:tx\">The National Lottery &#8211; Security<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Advance Fee Lottery Scams - International Lottery Scam Information\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/email-lottery-scams.html\">Advance Fee Lottery Scams &#8211; International Lottery Scam Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-national-lottery-winning-notification-emails-still-hitting-inboxes\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/fake-national-lottery-winning-notification-emails-still-hitting-inboxes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: Email claiming to be from The National Lottery in the UK announces \u00a0that you have \u00a0won \u00a3810,000 via the &#8216;UK international Online Lottery Award&#8217; and should contact the fiduciary agent to claim your prize. Brief Analysis: The National Lottery did not send the email. You have not won any money. The email is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}