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Whatsapp Balloting Award Programme Scam

There is no "Whatsapp Balloting Award Programme." Therefore, online users who have received e-mail messages like the one below, which claim they are winners in such a lottery or promotion are asked not to follow the instructions in them because they are lottery scams being sent by scammers.

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Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by lottery scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and subsequently asking them to send money in order to receive their so-called lottery prize. Sending your personal information to these cyber-criminals will only help them rip you off or steal your money. Therefore, online users who have received the same email messages are asked to delete them.

A "Whatsapp Balloting Award Programme" Lottery Scam

Congratulations!!!

You have won seven hundred thousand dollars in the annual promotional program,

Send Ref No: WH2 to official ballot Email Immeidiately for claim:

ballot@whatsappawards.com

Contact Email: ballot@whatsappawards.com for claim

The phone that sent me message was +62 831-0276-7508.

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