The email messages below, which claim that Richard and Angela Maxwell, the British couple that won £53,193,914 in the EuroMillions jackpot in March 2015, are donating millions of British pounds to people around the world as part of their charity project, is a lottery scam. Richard and Angela Maxwell are not randomly donating money to people around the world. The scammers/cyber-criminals are who are sending out the fake email messages, and who are pretending to be Richard and Angela Maxwell, are attempting to trick the recipients into sending them their personal information.
Once they (scammers) have received their potential victims’ personal information, they will use the information to trick the potential victims into sending money, which they will claim is for some advance fees, which will cover banking and transfer costs, insurance payments or tax that the potential victims need to pay before they can receive the donated money.
But, if the victims send their money, the scammers will steal it and may continue to trick the victims into sending more money, with the promise of receiving the donated money the scammers claim they would receive.
Recipients of the Richard and Angela Maxwell lottery scam emails are asked not to respond to or follow the instructions in them. They should just delete the email messages instead.
It is important to remember that when someone contacts you, claiming that you have won the lottery or you are the recipient of millions of dollars, and asks you to send money in order to receive your lottery winnings or prizes, it is a SCAM. Legitimate lottery companies will never ask their winners to send money in order to receive their prizes or winnings. And, why would lottery winners who are allegedly donating millions of dollars to you, want you to send a few hundred or thousand dollars for banking and transfer costs, insurance payments or tax? Well, the money that the scammers want the victims to send, which the scammers claim is for taxes, bank transfer cost, insurance or other expenses, is what the scammers will steal. And, the victims, on the other hand, will never receive the winnings, prizes or money that they were promised.
So, once you are asked to send money in order to receive money, it is a scam.
Sample of a "Richard and Angela Maxwell" Lottery Scam Email Message
Dear Friend,
I am please to received your prompt response, this decision is from my wife and I, we agreed that if we ever win a Lottery, we will cede 10% of our winnings to an individual we have never met before as part of our own charity project. As fate would have it, we won the Euro Millions Lottery of £53 Million British Pounds and we have decided to fulfill our wish without any regret. To verify our lottery winnings, please see our interview by visiting the web page below:
Your email address was submitted to us by Google Inc. as a web user after they had done a computer spin-ball on several email addresses. Fortunately, you are the 10% beneficiary of our lottery winnings, I am much aware of the fraudulent activities going on around the world, for that reason people are really skeptical to accept when the real opportunity comes.
I didn’t believed it my self when I was contacted by the lottery board that I won £53 Million British Pounds, I thought it was all joke or fraud, but we thank God for this big and life changing opportunity.
Irrespective of your previous financial status, we need you to do us the favor by accepting our kind gesture wholeheartedly. Hence, to enable us transfer your £5.3 Million British pounds in your name by our offshore paying bank.
To effect the transfer to your designated bank account in your own country, we have discuss with our offshore bank and we where given terms of transfer, that our beneficiary will be mandated to setup an ONLINE OFFSHORE ACCOUNT with a minimum of $1000.00usd because of the security feature to avoid transfer interception and thief’s. I know this is a gift and you are not suppose to spend a dime, remember I also use £3000.00GBP to acquired ticket for my lottery winning, this is also a life changing opportunity for you and your entire family.
If you are okay with the term and condition of our paying bank, do provide us with the information’s below before will can furnish you with the bank contact information’s immediately.
Be aware there is no forma documentation on this, as this whole funds transfer is coming from Richard & Angela Maxwell and is %100 legitimate. Attached is our both international passport to verify our personality and authentication of the donation.
Full Name:
Contact Address:
Country:
Age:
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The only thanks we need is to use this money wisely and affect other individual and the less privileged in the society, so we can both make the world a better community if we
selflessly render help to one another.
Best Regards,
Richard & Angela Maxwell