Loteria Primitiva Scam

Tigger123

Today I received a letter from Spain saying that I had won on a lottery.........:j If anybody else receives one dont send your details, IT IS A SCAM to steal your identity. You have been warned.

Brainhertz

C'mon people - use some common sense, please!

How can you 'win' a lottery in Spain, Holland, Canada or where ever if you haven't entered one?

If it sounds too good to be true, then it...(I'm sure you know the rest)

omicron3

Tigger123 wrote: »

Today I received a letter from Spain saying that I had won on a lottery.........:j If anybody else receives one dont send your details, IT IS A SCAM to steal your identity. You have been warned.

I received one of the Loteria Primitiva award notifications this morning. Obviously this fraud must work occasionally for the fraudster to go to the expense of mailing out the letters.

adamtango

I got one this morning :rotfl:

dangeroussports

How much did she charge? lol....

Est

Received an "Award Final Notification" letter this morning so this scam is still doing the rounds - wish they could nail these and other scams like this before too many vulnerable people fall for them!!

seeker4truth

I have just received a letter from loteria primitiva today, thanks to this site I now know its a scam. I was working in Spain when the lottery was supposidly drawn and bought a euro millions ticket so the letter seemed reasonable but to head a letter "Dear Beneficiary" and not by name, even though the envelope has my name on is too odd for me. Also a signiture and stamp supposed to be real, which are phocopied with the rest of the document is rubbish. The headings etc. part of photo copy is not real for a proper company that would use headed paper. A company with no web site in my case (air security company s.a)? Just type loteria primitiva and loads of warnings come up!!!! How could anyone be duped into forking out.

captain5bear

This has surfaced again, I got a notification in the post today. it was posted in Portugal and I have won 815,960 Euros! Ooops - I was asked not to tell anyone!

Enfieldian

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn.

dealer_wins

they need to seriously teach this stuff at secondary school, will save the UK economy millions in fraud losses.

BFG_2

dealer_wins wrote: »

they need to seriously teach this stuff at secondary school, will save the UK economy millions in fraud losses.

No it wouldn't.........the thickos wouldn't listen anyway and they are the sort to fall for the scam [also pyramid scams are good for these], and the bright kids wouldn't fall for it anyway...lol