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Lottery names used in lottery scams

 

Have YOU received a Lottery Scam Letter? - Be an expert at recognizing Lottery Scams

 

Green Card Lottery Scam: Truth and Lies in simple words

 

NEW Faked and Forged Lottery Documents

All about Lottery Scam Letters:

Lottery Winners: The Truth vs The Scam

GroupLotto vs. Lottery Scams

International Lotteries vs. Lottery Scams

Sponsored vs. Operated Lotteries: The difference between lotteries and sweepstakes.

Lottery Site Map

Lottery Database

Sample letters

Lottery Scam letters: Investigation Discoveries in Action

"Peter Lambert" and other form letters

 

ID FRAUD IS A LIFE SENTENCE

IT doesn't matter if you have no credit.  IT doesn't matter if you have no credit cards.

Once you become a victim of ID Theft, you'll be looking over your shoulder for the rest of your life.

 

You think it won't happen to you, BUT

more and more of you are writing to us because you've become ID Theft victims.

 

MOST OF YOU

have become ID Theft victims because you open scam letters.

 

Because you answer the scam letters.

 

Because you open your computer to scammers.

 

Scam letters contain Spyware and Trojan horses.

 

Spyware reads all your files, including the files your browsers keep on your hard drive.  That means all your files and all your internet activity.

 

Trojan horses open doors in your firewall, allowing scammers to watch your screen on their computer in real time.

 

Your passwords, your user names, your entire identity is sold to men and women who pretend to be you to avoid arrest.

 

Your passwords, your user names, your entire identity is sold over and over and over again around the world to bad, bad people.

 

They set up accounts in your name.  They commit crimes using your name.  They establish credit using your name.  They enter countries illegally using your name.

 

They cheat, they steal, they run drugs, they sell guns, they commit fraud, they leave huge debts,

ALL UNDER YOUR NAME.

 

I urge you to run your anti-spyware and anti-virus programs every day.

Your anti-virus software and spyware program cannot tell ahead of time what malicious devices are going to be created, they can only deal with them AFTER they have hit the Internet and they've had time to develop an eliminator.

I urge you to erase all records of your Internet activity from your hard drive.

Until you do, nothing you do on the Internet is safe from strangers.  They know where you go, what you look at, what you say in chat rooms, where and how you log-in to secure sites.

Believe me when I say this:

Being a fraud victim is terrifying!

This has been a message from Annie McGuire, CEO & Founder, Fraud Aid

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GroupLotto, Inc. vs. Lottery Scams

How to tell the difference between a sponsored lottery game and a scam letter that says you won the lottery.

(This is not a recommendation to play or not to play GroupLotto. GroupLotto has been chosen for comparison purposes only.  Fraud-Aid is not a GroupLotto affiliate and derives no income from GroupLotto or any of its sponsors.)

You may have seen GroupLotto, Inc. email arriving in your mailbox lately and wondered whether or not this is a legitimate business.  While in my opinion GroupLotto indulges in Spam, that is not the same thing as running a con game, which is what Fraud-Aid.com addresses.  We leave the Spam issue to other specialty sites.

GroupLotto is just the opposite of lottery scams, and offers the perfect example of the right way to present a lottery - although GroupLotto is closer to Sweepstakes than a lottery.

Unlike lottery scams, GroupLotto gives you many ways to verify that they are a legitimate business:

Their rules are readily available and clearly written.  You can see an example here: http://grouplotto.aavalue.com/playpage/rules.cfm

They clearly state that they are sponsored by PrizeDistributors, Inc. and provide a link to that corporation's rules: http://www.prizedistributors.com/rules.html

PrizeDistributors, Inc., and GroupLotto, Inc. are domains of Traffix, Inc. (http://www.traffixinc.com), a marketing company that clearly states what they are, who they are, where they are located, and what they do.  Everything about them can be independently verified, which means that you don't have to take their word for anything - you can do your own homework.  You can write or call Traffix, Inc. and ask them about either domain.

The rules make it amply clear that by registering to play, you agree to receive advertising from 3rd parties.  That's why it doesn't cost you anything to play, and why I say that this is more a sweepstakes than a lottery.

Both GroupLotto and PrizeDistributors provide clear instructions about how players are paid.  PLEASE NOTE: there are no up front fees!

GroupLotto gives each registered player an account where he or she can check for winnings.

This is how you get paid: "... All such winners will be contacted via e-mail (or certified mail and/or telephone if they mailed in their entry) and directed as to how they can collect their prize money through PayPal. Prize money may be withdrawn and/or utilized by the winner in three ways: 1) PayPal can deposit your winnings directly into your bank account (your request will be processed immediately and your money will arrive in your bank account in 3-5 business days); 2) You can request a personal check from PayPal (the check will arrive at your home by U.S. mail within 1-2 weeks); or 3) You can use your prize money towards purchases from a participating PayPal merchant."

This is the only money you owe and how it is collected: "Federal, state and local taxes, and all similar fees and assessments, are the responsibility of the winner. PrizeDistributors™ reserves the right to withhold taxes from each winning prize, as appropriate."  Please note that all monies are collected from the winnings before distribution, and there are no agent fees!

Disqualification has nothing to do with talking about your winnings.  On the contrary - talking about GroupLotto is greatly encouraged.

 

 

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