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"North Carolina Education Lottery and LinkedIn Online Lotto" Scam

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North Carolina Education Lottery and LinkedIn Online Lotto Scam

The email message below, which claims that the recipients are lottery winners of the North Carolina Education Lottery and LinkedIn Online Lotto email address free-ticket draws of the 2016 Promotion Award, is a lottery scam. There is no such lottery. Every month, thousands of those email messages are sent out by lottery scammers, to trick their potential victims into sending them their personal information and money, to collect so-called lottery prizes. Always remember to verify the authenticity of a North Carolina Lottery prize or award by contacting them at their website at www.nc-educationlottery.org, and clicking on the "Contact" link. Also, never respond to an email message claiming that you are a lottery winner with your personal or financial information. Legitimate lottery companies do not request personal or financial information via an email message, and will never ask winners to send money or financial information in order to collect their prizes.

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The North Carolina Education Lottery and LinkedIn Online Lotto Scam

2100 YONKERS RD, RALEIGH, NC 27604 WWW.NC-EDUCATIONLOTTERY.ORG

NORTH CAROLINA LOTTERY

Attention: Email Account Holder

Congratulations!! Congratulations!!

Linked al

Are you the correct owner of this email? If yes, then, be glad this day as the result of the North Carolina Lottery and Linkedln Online Lotto and email address free-ticket draws of the 2016 Promotion Award has been released and we are glad to announce to you that your email address came out in the first category and entitles you to claim the sum of US$800,000.00.

It is a promotional Program to encourage the use of Linkedln and Internet Programs. Your email address was entered for the online draw on this free ticket Number: 13556075456152 with reference number SAJA2CIIOP5 and Serial number 5A5365/3, Batch Number: XA87-2PY Drew the lucky numbers: 16- 32- 33. 34- 37 This subsequently won you the lottery in the category i.e. matches 6 lucky numbers Plus Bonus number.

You have therefore been allocated to claim a total sum of US$800,000.00 (Eight Hundred Thousand, United States Dollars) in cash is credited to file SAPC/9080144308/05.

Please note that you're luck winning ticket number falls within our Africa booklet representative office in South Africa as Indicated in your ballot played coupon In view of this, your US$80 0,000.00 would be released to you by our payment department

Kindly provide following information urgently-

1. Full Name: (2. Email Address: (3. Physical Address (4. Age/Occupation: (S. Reference Number/Ticket Number: (6 Telephone Number: (7. Country: (8. Batch number

Contact our Fiduciary agents immediately to commence release of your lottery prize by providing details below:

Contact Person: Mrs. Nora Cambell Direct Contact Tel. +27-61-898-6502 E-mail: noracambellgrealityclaim.com

Please contact our agent direct on given number above for your claim thanks.

Sincerely, Mrs. Janice Ramirez

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August 9, 2022 at 7:58 PM by an anonymous user from: Jardim São Camilo, Jundiaí, Sao Paulo, Brazil

I received:

"Attention: Email Account Holder " "

Congratulations! Congratulations!

Private consultation from North Carolina Education Lottery. You have been drawn as one of the winner of our North Carolina Educational international Lottery winner through your Linkedin profile. Free ticket Number: B556075456152 with reference number USJA2CP5 and Serial number SA5365/20, Batch Number: XA87-2PY Drew the lucky numbers: 8-40-49-58-63-PB(14)

This subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. matches 5 lucky numbers and a Power Ball number. You are therefore allocated to claim a total sum of US$365,000,000.00 (Three Hundred and Sixty Five Million United States Dollars) in cash payment credited to file USPC/9080144308/05.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Janice Ramirez

Program manager

James. R. Thompson Center"

January 29, 2020 at 10:30 PM by info

nc-educationlottory.org is being used by the scammers.

January 29, 2020 at 9:27 AM by an anonymous user from: Málaga, Andalucia, Spain

Still doing the rounds, had it arrive today beware!

July 11, 2019 at 3:15 PM by info

"Attention: Email Account Holder

North Carolina Lottery <drericf883@gmail.com>

Thu 7/11/2019 1:50 PM

Attention: Email Account Holder

Congratulations! Congratulations!

Are you the owner of this email address? If yes, then, be glad this day as the result of the North Carolina Lottery and Linked In, Online Lotto and email address free-ticket draws of 2019 Promotion Award has been released and we are glad to announce to you that your email address came out in the first category and entitles you to claim the sum of

US$900,000.00.(Nine Hundred Thousand United States Dollar)

It is a promotional Program to encourage the users of LinkedIn and Internet Programs, Your email address was entered for the online draw on this free ticket Number: B556075456152 with reference number USJA2CP5 and Serial number SA5365/19, Batch Number: XA87-2PY Drew the lucky numbers: 16- 32- 33- 34- 37-4 (1) This subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e. matches 6 lucky numbers Plus Bonus number.

You are therefore allocated to claim a total sum of US$900,000.00 (Nine Hundred Thousand, United States Dollars) in cash payment credited to file USPC/9080144308/05.

do not take this matter as one of the internet scams because this is reality, when the transfer is done do request for transfer swift copy for with MT103, MT103 is a SWIFT payment message type/format used for cash transfer specifically for cross border/international wire transfer, the reason for this, is for your local bank to confirm if the fund exist or not, I hope with all this information you can understand that this is note fake lotteries, Note that you may receive this notification from any of our agent through official or private email address, when you received it do not ignore for it is legal.

Kindly forward the required details to Dr. Eric Fish to process your payment:

(1.Full-Name)(2.Email-Address)(3.Physical-Address)(4.Age/Occupation)(5.Reference-Number/Ticket Number) (6 Telephone- Number) (7. Country: (8. Batch number: (Banking Details:

Name: Dr. Eric Fish

Tel: 1 2547800175

Email: efrifish@legislator.com or drericf883@gmail.com

Office address: Lottery, Region 4

15 Executive Drive, Suite 3

Fairview Heights, lL 62208

Sincerely,

Mrs. Janice Ramirez

Program manager

James. R. Thompson Center

100 W. Randolph

7th Floor Chicago, lL60601-USA

Here is another scam.

June 1, 2019 at 7:26 PM by an anonymous user from: Toledo, Ohio, United States

My so called win was $900,000.00. What a m***n.

May 13, 2018 at 11:38 PM by info

Here is another scam:

"From: linkedin_verification53 . <linkedin_verification53@humos.xyz>

Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 3:59:37 PM

Subject: North Carolina Lottery and LinkedIn associates

Caution: This email originated from outside of the organization. DO NOT CLICK on links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.

Mrs. Janice Ramirez

Program manager

James R. Thompson Center

100 W. Randolph

7th Floor Chicago, IL 60601- USA"

May 11, 2018 at 5:31 PM by an anonymous user from: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I received a similar email with an attachment as above.

June 4, 2017 at 9:00 PM by an anonymous user from: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

The North Carolina Lottery is rigged. How is that 5 to 6 drawings in a row comes up doubles or triple numbers. Its time to rethink playing this Pick 4 game.

April 19, 2017 at 6:08 AM by an anonymous user from: Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa

On the 17th April I got the same email claiming that's it from South Caroline.

April 17, 2017 at 6:52 AM by an anonymous user from: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

I got the same email claiming it was the South Carolina Educational Lottery today.

March 21, 2017 at 8:36 AM by an anonymous user from: Sofia, Sofia-Capital, Bulgaria

Today I got almost the same email claiming it was the South Carolina Educational Lottery.

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