You will be able to identify if a particular email which says that you won a lottery or someone needs a favour from you for depositing funds, or worse offering you the position of a CEO in a company received by you, contains anyone of the following .
1. You have never heard the name of the organisation ever.
2. When you try to search the name of the organisation you do not find any relevant search result matching the one in the mail.
3. The sender of the emails asks you to provide him with your full name, bank account information, passport number, credit card numbers, or any other personal information.
4. The sender of the mail claims that you have won a lottery in which you did not participate at all or you have won a competition which you never participated.
5. When you see the receivers mailing address that appears in the mail, it would be mentioned as “undisclosed recipients” which means you are one among the many people has is trying to cheat.
6. The scam mails which contain information such as , you have won a lottery, you have inherited a property or job offer overseas is mostly sent from free email account like yahoo.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com. Whereas genuine companies would normally use their own domain names like xyz@microsoft.com (if the mail is from a Microsoft employee), abc@accenture.com (if the mail is from an Accenture employee) as they can afford to spent more than $100 on it.
7. They might even go to the extent of stating that if you would like to collect your winning you will need to travel overseas, which would definitely pose a big risk for you with the amount of very little information.
8. Normally these kind of emails ask for a fee to be sent to a particular country or account if the winning or offer has to be given to the prospective victim.
9. There will be very few details provided about the said prize or inheritance or lottery winning money.
10. If you respond to him once by mistake they keep following up with you and might even go to the extent of “threatening you with legal action” if you do not pay the money for “the service” provided by him.
In all the above cases, it is best to not communicate with the sender of the email any further and contact your local Scam alert center.
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