Online scammers do a variety of tricks to victimize computer users. Lately, a lottery scam is being distributed targeting users of the social network Facebook. Online lottery winnings is not a new scheme employed by scammers. Unfortunately, many people still fall to this type of deceit.Facebook Lottery: Is It Real?
Straight answer: no. If you receive the following message, delete it because it is an attempt to scam you. Sorry to disappoint but there is no such thing as Facebook Lottery.
Dear Esteemed Winner,
We congratulate you.
We are pleased to notify you that you are amongst the 10 Lucky Winners whom where randomly selected in our first ever Facebook 2011 Lottery Draw held on Monday, the 26th of September, 2011. Your have won the sum of $1,000,000.00 USD (One million united states dollars) at our 2nd Jackpot category.
Please be advised to immediately file in for claim with a valid evidence of identification for clarification purpose so as to avoid a third party claim as we’ll not be accountable under such condition.
For claim, please call your Facebook Claim Administrator with your winning batch number: FBL2011-2ND/JPC26 to have your Winning claimed.
James Haggie
Facebook Claim Administrator. (FBCA)
Tel: +447045794951
Email: fb_jhaggiee@blumail.org
Annoucer,
Facebook Lottery Board (FLB).
On behalf of the entire Facebook Staff, we congratulate you.
It's quite amusing to believe you have won a Facebook lottery when you have not joined in any lottery promising to pay winners millions in prizes.
Share this post to your Facebook friends to warn them about the Facebook Lottery scam.
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International Promotions / Prize Award.
Category: 2nd
Greetings to you Dear lucky winner. We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the 15th of July 2013 by Facebook group in cash promotion to encourage the usage of Facebook worldwide. Your name was among the 20 lucky winners who won $1,000,000.00USD (One Million United State Dollars) each on the Facebook group promotion award attached to Lucky Number (FB-225-7736), Ticket Number (FB-172-60), Batch Number (FB-0281/544) and Serial Number (99352748-2013).
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of emails you were picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the Facebook in other to claim your $1,000,000.00USD the lottery program which is a new innovation by Facebook, is aimed at saying a big thank you to all our users for making Facebook their number one means to connect, communicate, relate and hook up with their families and friends over the years.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants and scam artists. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individuals email addresses from all over the world. This promotional program takes place every three years. You may be rest assured that this is real and legal. There are some scam artists around but thanks to the FBI, 86 of them have been arrested.
You are required to contact the head of our disbursement department in the person of Mr. David Alfredo via this email address (facebookwinnersdepartment12@gmail.com) with information below for the complete processing of your Winning certificate and further information regarding the disbursement of your lottery winnings.
Full Name: LINDA GAYLE LOVERN