What is a Nigerian Lottery Scam?
Nigerian lottery scams are flooding the inboxes of unsuspecting email users throughout the world. Nigerian lottery scams target random email users and promise that they’ve just won a large fortune from a random lottery drawing. The Nigerian lottery scam is streamlined, but when people ask how they’ve won a lottery without willingly entering, things start to unravel for the con artists behind the Nigeria lottery scam. Nigerian Lottery scam artists may get inventive by sayings, “we’ve partnered with AOL and they provided the email addresses of our target demographic.” But, it isn’t typical for the Nigerian lottery scam artists to become violent and threaten that the Nigeria lottery scam “winners” must participate, or else…
Facts behind Nigeria lottery Scams
Typically, the Nigerian lottery scam artists pretend that their Nigerian lottery scam is in fact based out of Europe or the US. So, these poor Nigeria lottery scam “winners” are conned into believing that they aren’t dealing with a Nigerian lottery scam, but just an international lottery. The Nigerian lottery scam artists make their money by prompting the “winners” to send a check of several thousand dollars to cover supposed transaction fees. But, in fact, this money is just going into the pockets of the Nigerian lottery scam artists.
This is where many winners fall out of the game. The Nigerian lottery scams will ALWAYS tell their victims to keep strict confidentiality. Nigerian lottery scam artists know if these victims speak of the winnings to their friends, family or local lottery organizations, they’ll be uncovered for the Nigerian lottery scam that they are running. If victims of the Nigeria lottery scam break the confidentiality and start asking questions, they’ll most likely never hear from these Nigerian lottery scam artists again.
** If you’ve received a Nigerian lottery scam email, contact Federal Trade Commission or the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report your thread of the Nigeria lottery scam.
