| If you are a lottery lover and keep hearing about | | | | gaming tax. Both these reasons for asking you to |
| the scams which take place around you, then you | | | | send them your money reek of a fraud. |
| need to guard yourself against such scams. The | | | | Remember if you have never heard of the |
| right way to go about it is to know how to | | | | lottery’s name for which you are being |
| identify a scam. This will need a bit of skill, time | | | | declared a winner, then it’s definitely a bogus |
| and patience. But once you have learnt how to | | | | mail. You will also be told that your email address |
| detect a lottery scam, not only can you prevent | | | | has been randomly selected for a lottery jackpot. |
| yourself from getting cheated but also help others | | | | This is another sign of a scam. By law, no |
| too, especially your relatives and close friends | | | | company is allowed to do this. |
| from getting fooled by these scams. | | | | Other signs of lottery scams can be detected if |
| The most common trick used by the fraudsters | | | | you observe any links which are embedded in the |
| to cheat you is when they inform you by email | | | | body of the email received by you. These links will |
| that you have won a lottery jackpot after your | | | | be used by the fraudsters to land you on spoof |
| name was randomly selected. The first thing that | | | | sites where you will be asked to update your |
| you need to remember when you receive a | | | | personal information. At times when you |
| letter from such bogus operators is that unless | | | | download software from such sites, the software |
| and until you buy a lottery ticket, you cannot be | | | | will be a spy ware which will then retrieve |
| declared a winner of any lottery game. That | | | | important information from your computer after |
| shows that the email letter is a fake. | | | | you have logged on to your bank’s websites |
| It’s also obvious that an email is bogus when | | | | and made some transactions. Your personal |
| you are declared a winner for a lottery where | | | | information is then used to withdraw cash from |
| you have not filled in any personal information like | | | | your bank accounts. These spoof sites look quite |
| your name, phone number and credit card and | | | | similar to genuine website. So always pay close |
| yet you have been shown as having a lottery | | | | attention to the sites you land on. |
| ticket. Besides this you can also be sure that you | | | | Thus all the above things clearly show that you |
| have got a bogus mail when you win a lottery | | | | can never afford to be slack when you are |
| which is not of your country. | | | | approached by such people. Keep discussing other |
| Another sign of a scam is when you are told to | | | | similar tips to identify such scams with your other |
| send money so that it can be used for the | | | | friends. You will slowly be able to smell a lottery |
| processing so that you may receive the winning | | | | scam from a distance as you spend more time |
| jackpot amount at your place. Other common | | | | learning about it. |
| excuses for making payment to them would be | | | | |