Red Alert on the Camelot Lottery Scam
Camelot Lottery Scam
The National lottery and the Monday lottery are the two legal organizations in the United Kingdom who organize lotto games, while Camelot is the company in charge of keeping the games running smoothly. It plays a rather discrete role still everybody knows about it which explains why the ones who are trying to deceive people over the Internet are using their name. Since regular players know nothing more than the fact that Camelot is somehow involved in running the lottery games, they send various e-mails claiming that they speak on behalf of this organization.
How to detect Camelot lottery scams
One of the most important things that people need to know is that any respectable lottery will find other ways of interacting with its clients, besides e-mail. Camelot doesn’t run any lottery per se and it certainly doesn’t use a free Yahoo email address to inform players that they have won. Furthermore, no company will demand its members or customers to respond to an email and provide sensitive information of a personal nature.
One of the latest Camelot lottery scams that is circulating over the Internet informs random people that their e-mail has been selected randomly from the Internet through a balloting system. It makes no sense whatsoever why someone would go to great lengths to award significant amounts of money to strangers, but naïve people might fall into the net. The “lucky winners” are asked to provide sensitive information about themselves just to make sure that the prizes will reach them and not the wrong person.
There is no such thing as free money
Whenever something sounds too good to be true it really is, and the illusion that one can win a lottery prize without actually buying a ticket is particularly dangerous. Despite the logical flaws in the statement that someone can win the jackpot without investing anything, many are falling right into the trap. The right thing to do when receiving an e-mail informing you of such a prize is to flag it immediately and don’t even bother to respond to it.
Keep in mind the fact that scams are more frequent around holidays, and the perpetrators use any occasion they have to induce used the idea that someone has been incredibly lucky. The e-mails are also making references to international gaming associations and regulators, that might or might not exist. The idea is to convince the recipient and that there is nothing fishy about the claim and some e-mails go as far as to repeatedly assure the person that it is not a scam. Last but not least the Camelot lottery scams have frequently urged people to act quickly as the huge jackpots they’ve just won are about to expire.
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