UK Lottery Scam SMS

Shell Petroleum Company Lottery

Recently I received a SMS that I win the UK Lottery of $ 1,00,000. I have never filled any lottery ticket and still I win million dollars….!!!

According to the SMS, the Shell Company of UK has done bumper lottery draw of millions of mobile numbers and my mobile number was selected among the few lucky winners. Now, according to them, What I have to do is, mail them and claim my lottery price.

Just tell me that, How many of you receive such kind of Lottery Winning SMS everyday? If you have not received such kind of SMS yet than sooner or later you will receive such kind of SMS. In fact, every day hundreds of thousands of people receive such kind of lottery SMS.

Now, what if you contact these people via e-mail? Well, in that case they will ask you for your personal information and the payment option. They will give you 2 options, one is wire transfer and the other is diplomatic courier of your winning amount in your country.

In any case, they will ask you for anywhere between $ 500-1000 for delivery charge and Insurance charge of your winning amount. And if you pay this amount to them, they will fly away with your money.

Lots of people have lost thousands of dollars behind such kind of lottery scams. Right now UK Lottery Scam SMS is the most favourite scam among the scammers. And even if you don’t pay money to these people there is a threat of Identity theft.

What many people do is, they send their personal information first and think that if the scammer will ask for money they will not pay any money. But you don’t know that the personal information that you give to these people is also in danger. Because they can sell this Information to other people for illegal use such as Fake ID Cards or fake documents.

So Don’t give your Personal Information or any kind of money to anybody who claim that you have won the lottery and if you have already given these things, you have probably lost it.

Financial Awareness is the only key to protect yourself against such kind of modern frauds.

To be very frank,

Reputed Companies like Shell, Google, Microsoft or Coca-Cola never do lottery Business. They have disclosed on their authority websites that they are never in the lottery business and never will be. This is the scammers are using their brands to cheat people at mass level.