Scam Alert! Facebook Online Lottery Email

 If our readers can recall, we had put together a list of some common Facebook online scams that people fall prey to. Adding to this list is another scam that is doing the rounds on the Internet. We call it the ‘Facebook Online Lottery Scam.’ Here’s a brief about what this scam is all about.

 

A couple of days ago, I received an unsolicited email informing me about an online lottery that I just won. The email stated that, I was one of the eight lucky winners to have won a sum of $1,000,000 in cash. According to the sender, Nine hundred thousand email addresses on Facebook were chosen for the lucky draw.

So, how do I claim this unbelievable-out-of-nowhere prize? It was easy. I simply had to reply to this sender (facebook.shares2014@lottery.com) with the following personal details:

• Full name
• Address
• Telephone number

I was also advised to keep this information confidential, otherwise, I would have risked getting unqualified for the prize.

The Real Story

While it always feels awesomely great to win a lottery or a prize, the above email is purely an online scam. It is just one of the sadistic tricks of cybercriminals to lure users with the ‘money carrot’ and trick them into furnishing their personal information including name, address, phone number, etc.

If I had replied to this email with the information they had asked for, then this is what would have happened.

The scammer would have replied asking me for a certain fee required for transferring the money into my account and probably my bank account details too. And If I had gone a step further, then I would have ended up losing my money to something that did not even exist in the first place; I would have been scammed!

We advise our readers never to respond to such unexpected or unsolicited emails, especially those associated with money. Be extra cautious against such emails that contain attachments or links. Clicking these would either take you to a phishing website or drop a nasty malware on your system.

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अखिल गुप्ता ने जैसे ही अपना फेसबुक अकाउंट खोला तो वो हैरान हो गए। कारण उनके वाल पर अनेक अश्लील पोस्ट थी। इनमें से कई उनके अकाउंट से डाली गई थी। तो कई दोस्तों के एफबी अकाउंट से टैग कर डाली गई थी।

जबकि उन्होंने एक भी अश्लील पोस्ट अपने अकाउंट से नहीं की थी।

यह केवल एक मामला नहीं है, हजारों फेसबुक यूजर्स के अकाउंट पर नूडिटी की बाढ़ आ गई है। सोशल साइट्स फेसबुक और आर्कुट यूजर्स के अकाउंट पर पिछले कुछ समय से अश्लील पोस्ट की जा रही है। जबकि यूजर्स इन पोस्ट को अपने वाल पर नहीं डाल रहे हैं।

Beware! Fraudster posing as priest tries to cheat in the name of 'donation'

Mangalore, Apr 24: In today's world, people become so cynical that even genuine acts of charity are sometimes taken with a pinch of salt. Here, however is a true life incident which proves that no matter how much one tries to stop such feelings of suspicion, there are enough people out there to destroy one's faith and there are also equal number of people who get trapped by conmen.

This is an account of one such "Faceless Crime" that took place just last week, where the "victims" were a kind and generous priest working as a missionary in West Bengal and his naive sister-in-law who is a housewife in Mangalore. The criminal instituted this crime with no personal exposure, no written documents, no signatures, no fingerprints but through his cell phone, savings bank account in the State Bank of India and the use of ATM cards.

Fr John (name changed), a simple, dedicated, hardworking and unassuming priest hailing from Mangalore, is a parish priest in a remote area in the Diocese of Kolkata. A true missionary, he has worked hard for decades to uplift and educate the poor people of that area, mostly tribals and he is well known for his charitable work there.

This story begins on April 14, when at about 11 am, he received a telephone call. The caller identified himself as one "Fr Edwin Joseph", a "Salesian Priest" from Mumbai now based in New Jersey, USA. After exchanging pleasantries, the caller told Fr John that he had visited his parish sometime back and being very impressed with the charitable work being done there, he had spoken about him to the people in USA who were his parishioners. He then said that these people had donated some amount for the use of this missionary work which he wanted to pass on to Fr John, and since he was running short of time, and was right now in the bank, he wanted Fr John to give him his SBI or HSBC bank ATM card number so that he could transfer the amount to his account for use in the Church. But Fr John told him that he did not have an account in either SBI or HSBC bank, so the caller told him to urgently check if anyone else known to him has accounts in either of these banks.

Fr John in his simplicity believed in the generosity of this so-called priest and started calling up some of his acquaintances but none of them seemed to be having an account in SBI or HSBC banks. By now, this "Fr Edwin" starts pressuring Fr John to hurry up as he was anxious to hand over the money collected from parishioners before he leaves India and enquired if he can provide any of his relatives’ account number.

Fr John then remembered his large clan in Mangalore, called up one of his brothers and learnt that his sister in law Mariet (name changed) has an account in the State Bank of India, Mangalore and gave the information to "Fr Edwin". Elated at getting this information, "Fr Edwin" asked for Mariet’s phone number so that he could directly contact her and take the details from her. He told Fr John that the amount would be transferred to her account in two days.

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