Mobile Lottery Scam

Mobile Lottery Scam

Mobile Lottery Scam is the information age sophisticated financial fraud. I have created this separate post so that you can be aware of such kind of frauds and protect your money from the fraudsters. Yes, Protecting your wealth from the fraudsters is also important and it’s the part of financial education.

How Mobile Lottery Scam Works?

Well, one day in the pretty morning you will receive SMS from some African or Euro-African or UK Based company that you win the lottery of $ 1 Million or something like this huge amount.

You will be surprised by knowing that you have never biught any lottery ticket so how can you win a lottery? Well, the explanation of this query is already in the SMS. They will tell you in the SMS that they did the lucky draw of literally millions of mobile numbers and your mobile number is selected from the few lucky winners.

Well, let me tell you here that, in this pretty morning, you are not the only person on this earth who have received such kind of SMS on his mobile. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people who are reading the same SMS.

Yes, These lottery scammers send such kind of lottery winning SMS to literally hundreds of thousands of people at a time.

Now, the scam goes onwards. They will ask you to contact their e-mail address to cliam your winning amount. And when you contact that person, that person will ask you for your personal information such as Name, Age, Sex, Birth Date, Residential Address and many other things.

BEWARE…..!!!!

Many people think that, I am not going to give them any money so what’s the problem in giving personal information? Well, if you have already given or want to give your personal information than get ready for the complication of Identity Theft.

Identity theft means somebody else in some other part of the world is using your personal information for verious purposes by using fake ID cards, fake certificates and many other things. This is extremely dangerous.

Believe me, nobody can ever do a lucky draw of your mobile number or e-mail address without your permission. It’s against the law. And yeah. Nobody else can never buy a lottery ticket without informing you. It’s a crime.

Now, what if you send your personal information? Well, you will receive the next mail. And they will ask for you the 2 ways to deliver your winning amount in your country. One is the telegraphic transfer and the other is Diplomatic Courier in your country.

No matter which method you will select, they will ask you for anywhere between $ 500-1500 for delivery charge, shipping charge, Insurance charge or any other kind of charge.

And once you pay this, they will fly away with your money. You will never receive your winning amount.

Many people have paid such kind of charges and never get anything from these people. Mobile Lottery Scammers use the names of famous brands such as Coca-cola, Shell Company, Microsoft and even Google. And because of lack of financial awareness about frauds, people become victims of such kind of scams.

If you really win a lottery prize than you don’t have to pay anything. Just think that if you are a winner of a $ 1 Million lottery than why would that lottery company ask for few hunderd bugs from you to deliver your winning amount? It’s simply impossible.

So now onwards, whenever you receive such kind of SMS, please don’t waste your time and money behind it.