For regular readers of posts on SCAMTHEFRAUDSTER blog, you will remember the post for the month of October brought to our notice that fraudsters have taken their lottery winning notification message spreading to the next level.
Today, we are letting you in how the lottery winning notification text message sent to phone by fraudsters is done.
Fraudulent lottery winning notification sent as text messages to mobile phones is not completely different from the usual scam lottery notification you receive via email. However, fraudulent lottery winning text message notification sent by fraud is very concise and precise with a maximum of 300 letters as against the lengthy notification sent to email accounts.
Sample of the messages are below:
Dear Winner,
Congratulations, you have been picked as one of the few winners in the just concluded National lottery draws. You are eligible for payment of $500, 000. For claims contact Mr. Richards H. via +44704236876 or attorneyrich@yahoo.com.
Dear Winner,
This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of $450,000.00 and a brand new BMW 5 Series Car from BMW International programs held on the 12th of NOVEMBER, 2007 in Amsterdam the Netherlands. Contacts: Franklin G. +316556541 or bmwintagent@yahoo.com.
The worse hit by these text messages are countries that seem unaware and doing nothing to stop lottery scam perpetrated from the shores of Nigeria. The winning notification has a contact information which the receiver (or victim) can use to contact the fraudster.
Most times the contact information is always a phone number because it is a swift medium through which they can control and get their hands on the receptacle of your hard earned savings.
When the receiver calls the fraudster, the fraudster informs the victim of what he/she is required to do to receive the prize money.
The victims are told that the fees required to be paid is to facilitate the remittance of the prize money and it should be paid to their agent in Nigeria. Some victims do not ask why Nigeria and when some ask they are told stories like the agent in Nigeria is the one in control of transactions from their country.
More than ninety percent of the times the victims are asked to pay the required fees through western union or money gram money transfer.
The fees required to be paid by the victim can be one-off payment or a series of payment depending on the docile nature of the victim.
You might be wondering how these fraudsters get this done- save some strength to continue reading. In keeping with our promise of the modus operandi approach to fighting internet fraud this is how they do it.
For a fraudster to start sending fraudulent lottery winning text message notification the fraudster needs to setup an account with www.fastecash.com (this website is owned by SADC producers of success Digest magazines). Thereafter the fraudster funds the account by purchasing a scratch card which has a pin that can be utilized on the website.
With the account funding done, the fraudster starts sending the text messages to any country of choice. Major target destinations are the Middle East, parts of South America, etc.
The dangers in this includes, the fraudster can decide which countries to focus on with little or no expertise, more people gets to respond to the messages because people are more attached to their mobile phone compared to their email accounts especially in developing countries and some developed countries like Japan, etc. and finally we do not think there are spam filter for mobile phones at the moment as it is for email accounts to protect you from falling for these messages.
All the same we have little advice for you.
The advice this time is very simple – ignore any text message from an unknown sender, if the message is so important the sender will call. Remember, if you did not purchase any lottery ticket please don’t expect to be a winner.
Come to think of it, if you are the winner of a prize to the tune of a hundred thousand dollars ($100, 000) or above, do you think the lottery firm will only send a text message to notify you?
The bottom line is cut down on your greedy so you can stay safe from scam.
You better lose out of a winning rather than lose your hard earned money.
Today, we are letting you in how the lottery winning notification text message sent to phone by fraudsters is done.
Fraudulent lottery winning notification sent as text messages to mobile phones is not completely different from the usual scam lottery notification you receive via email. However, fraudulent lottery winning text message notification sent by fraud is very concise and precise with a maximum of 300 letters as against the lengthy notification sent to email accounts.
Sample of the messages are below:
Dear Winner,
Congratulations, you have been picked as one of the few winners in the just concluded National lottery draws. You are eligible for payment of $500, 000. For claims contact Mr. Richards H. via +44704236876 or attorneyrich@yahoo.com.
Dear Winner,
This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of $450,000.00 and a brand new BMW 5 Series Car from BMW International programs held on the 12th of NOVEMBER, 2007 in Amsterdam the Netherlands. Contacts: Franklin G. +316556541 or bmwintagent@yahoo.com.
The worse hit by these text messages are countries that seem unaware and doing nothing to stop lottery scam perpetrated from the shores of Nigeria. The winning notification has a contact information which the receiver (or victim) can use to contact the fraudster.
Most times the contact information is always a phone number because it is a swift medium through which they can control and get their hands on the receptacle of your hard earned savings.
When the receiver calls the fraudster, the fraudster informs the victim of what he/she is required to do to receive the prize money.
The victims are told that the fees required to be paid is to facilitate the remittance of the prize money and it should be paid to their agent in Nigeria. Some victims do not ask why Nigeria and when some ask they are told stories like the agent in Nigeria is the one in control of transactions from their country.
More than ninety percent of the times the victims are asked to pay the required fees through western union or money gram money transfer.
The fees required to be paid by the victim can be one-off payment or a series of payment depending on the docile nature of the victim.
You might be wondering how these fraudsters get this done- save some strength to continue reading. In keeping with our promise of the modus operandi approach to fighting internet fraud this is how they do it.
For a fraudster to start sending fraudulent lottery winning text message notification the fraudster needs to setup an account with www.fastecash.com (this website is owned by SADC producers of success Digest magazines). Thereafter the fraudster funds the account by purchasing a scratch card which has a pin that can be utilized on the website.
With the account funding done, the fraudster starts sending the text messages to any country of choice. Major target destinations are the Middle East, parts of South America, etc.
The dangers in this includes, the fraudster can decide which countries to focus on with little or no expertise, more people gets to respond to the messages because people are more attached to their mobile phone compared to their email accounts especially in developing countries and some developed countries like Japan, etc. and finally we do not think there are spam filter for mobile phones at the moment as it is for email accounts to protect you from falling for these messages.
All the same we have little advice for you.
The advice this time is very simple – ignore any text message from an unknown sender, if the message is so important the sender will call. Remember, if you did not purchase any lottery ticket please don’t expect to be a winner.
Come to think of it, if you are the winner of a prize to the tune of a hundred thousand dollars ($100, 000) or above, do you think the lottery firm will only send a text message to notify you?
The bottom line is cut down on your greedy so you can stay safe from scam.
You better lose out of a winning rather than lose your hard earned money.
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