Lottery Scam: UK Lottery Scam is the Hot favourite

Lottery Scam: UK Lottery Scam is the Hot favourite

Yesterday night when I was writing a Blog post at 12 o'clock night, My dad called me. Let me tell you that my home town is Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India & Right now I study at Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. My dad told me that, He received the following SMS on his mobile phone.

“Congrats…!!!, Your Mobile has won GBP 10,00,000 in the 09 LOOMIS FIN INT Mobile Draw, To claim your prize contact harry on 447014225678 or E-mail lomis@live.com”

So my dad called me to e-mail this fellow to know that what is the fact? I told my dad that, this is a lottery scam and there are literally thousands of varieties of this types of scams. But my dad did not want to listen to me. He ordered me to mail this fellow to claim the lottery ticket.

I am sure that, many of you also must have won millions of dollars of lotteries of this kind in the past. Let me tell you that these are the scams. Once you will ask for the claim, they will ask for money usually few thousand dollars to complete the legal procedures & deliver the lottery check at your home. But believe me, these money will never come back.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to explain and convince the victim (Here in this case My Dad is a Victim) that it is a scam and you have not won any lottery.

So How to convince the Victim?

- Educate the Victim First: If your friend, colleague or relative becomes a victim of such types of lottery scam than first of all educate him about these types of frauds. Let me tell you that How I educated my dad about these types of scams. I have send the following link to my Dad.

1400 Types of Lottery Scams from 419legal.org Forum

The above link can be very helpful to educate victims about the lottery scams of these types. You also send this link to your friends if you find that they are the victims of lottery scams.

- 90% of Victims are the pre-retirement age group: It is observed that the victims are mainly of pre-retirement age group. because they have built-up the sufficiently large amount of corpus to blow up. So if you are in the pre-retirement age group (50-65 years) than Be Alert. Don’t blow up your retirement corpus behind these lottery scams.

In short, the one and only solution of protecting your self by these scams is the “Education & Awareness”. So Spread the awareness about these types of modern scams.