EAAS lottery or the Euro Afro Asian Sweepstakes Lottery is an email scam run from countries as different as
Netherlands, Indonesia, Nigeria and South Africa. Folks who are part of such email
scams send you a mail saying your email id has won you $2.5 Million dollars. The mail from EAAS Lottery Headquarters in South Africa (or Nigeria) would say that your email address was selected as a lottery winner from millions of addresses online.
As you read on, the claims only get wilder. A sample: The mail tells you that the lottery was being sponsored worldwide by the Sultan of Brunei and Bill Gates to encourage use of the internet! These folks sure have fertile brains.
They also do some things to make you believe in the offer. They quote a series of numbers like lottery number, series number or winning number many times over in their mail. They drop names of European countries like UK and the
Netherlands. It is easy to be taken by these tricks.
But, Beware! The only aim of these gentlemen is to entice people and to make them part with their hard-earned money. They play on the natural greed of their victims by promising them millions of dollars as lottery winnings.
They get you into the scam in steps. First they ask you to get in touch with their Fiduciary Agent (wonder what his job profile is like!). Then they ask you to submit your personal info to them. Once you do that, they tell you that in order to get the prize you would have to submit some money as administrative fees or to cover taxes you owe from the winnings.
Their demands for money continue as they ask you for money for one reason or the other. People pay up in fear of losing the initial amount that they paid. But since it is a scam, you never ever receive any money. Any money you send to them would be lost forever.
You will never fall for an email fraud like this one if you get some things clear. Real lottery organizers never require you to send them ANY money to get your prize money. If you get such mails,
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Don’t reply: the fraudsters are super smooth talkers and can get you tangled in their web in no time.
* Don’t click at links in their mails: this allows them to download harmful programs into your computer. These programs search your computer for your passwords, bank account numbers and your credit card info and send them to fraudsters for misuse.
