Unsolicited Spam SMS Text Message Fake FreeLotto UK royalfbank Lottery Scam Targeting Your Cell Phone
on July 24th, 2011 at 10:22 PMBEWARE! Be Very Aware of this new scam! Scammers trying to steal your identity are now sending out mass, unsolicited SMS, text messages to cell phones saying your cellular number has been awarded $1,000,000 in a lottery.
This SMS text message states: Congratulations: FreeLotto has awarded your cell number the sum of $1,000,000. visite www.royalfbank.co.uk for claims, Ticket #: 92201029 Deposit CODE: 8110.
Here’s a screen shot of the text message received:
Noticed the spelling mistake – a dead give-away that this is a scam. How many banks give money away in a lottery? How many lotteries or banks will randomly contact the winner by SMS text messages? How many lotteries will give money away randomly?
The URL is for a website called: www.royalfbank.co.uk. The website claims to be a financial institution called: Royal Finance and Securities or Royal FBI Online or RFB International or Royal F Bank or RFBI, but yet, at the upper right hand column there is a section called: ‘National Lottery draw released! Claim winning now…’ Once the link is clicked, it prompts for the Ticket# and the Bank deposit CODE. DO NOT enter this information and DO NOT click to verify as this is a SCAM!
Ask yourself, how many banks run lotteries? Is this too good to be true? If so, what do you think?
On this website, there are several areas where people can enter a lot of personal information for the purpose of applying for a loan or to open a bank account. DO NOT attempt as this is to steal your identity!
Their Contact Us link has an address for their office:
30 Guildford Street
London, London
WC1N 1EH (United Kingdom).
Do a search online and it shows that this is the address for:
30 Guilford Street
London, WC1N 1EH
Click Here to view their website.
The domain Registry Whois shows the following information, which may be false as well. Notice that the domain name was only registered on 16-May-2011 by someone in Canada (the Registrant’s name and address may be random or false) but the site location information is showing as Nottingham, United Kingdom. The Registrar is located in Melbourne.
It appears that these scammers took a lot of time to create this website. Education is the best way to avoid being scammed! Share this blog post with everyone who has a cellular phone!
Should you worry about text message scams?
Should you worry about online identity theft?
Should you worry about lottery cell phone scams?
You decide!
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these scammers are every where but the sad reality is that people are still falling for them
love the exclamation marks but don’t care for the question marks
i dont get it. it says its in the uk, but i got one in aus.
Just received this one, seams to be the same scammers:
CONGRAT!!!YOUR MOBILE NUMBER HAS WON FOR YOU $1,000,000USD IN THE FREELOTTO MOBILE PROMO.FOR CLAIMS, SEND EMAIL TO : freegrant7@live.com & CALL +448719747694
+601113099353
Cheers from germany
And 447852318086 freelott14@gmail.com
Cheers from Netherlands