{"id":2030,"date":"2015-07-18T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T11:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2015-07-18T11:17:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T11:17:51","slug":"action-fraud-alert-rio-2016-olympics-lottery-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2015\/07\/18\/action-fraud-alert-rio-2016-olympics-lottery-scam-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Fraud Alert &#8211; Rio 2016 Olympics Lottery Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) has received intelligence regarding two new Lottery Fraud letters\/email attachments (Scam 1 &amp; Scam 2) using the 2016 Rio Olympics as a theme.<\/p>\n<p>The scams try to trick people into believing they have won the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scam 1: <\/strong>An online lottery prize of \u00a3650,000 and a trip to Brazil to watch the Olympics as the recipient\u2019s email address was chosen out of a possible ten million at random.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scam 2: <\/strong>An online lottery prize of \u00a3820,000 and a trip to Brazil to watch the Rio Carnival and the Olympics as the recipient\u2019s winning numbers 8 17 34 38 42 and 51 were selected.<\/p>\n<p>In order to collect the winnings the recipient is requested to contact:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scam 1: <\/strong><br \/>\nMr Dima Robert<br \/>\nMillMan Street, WC1N 3JB. London A5200.<br \/>\nTel: +447035973561<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:RioOlympics2016@represnetative.com\">RioOlympics2016@represnetative.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scam 2:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2018UK Pay out Officer\u2019<br \/>\nEmail:paymaster-office@bol.co.br<br \/>\n+44 7937428753<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protect yourself from lottery fraud<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never respond to any such communication. If you have not entered a lottery then you cannot have won it.<\/li>\n<li>Official lotteries in other countries operate in much the same way as the UK\u2019s National Lotto.<\/li>\n<li>No official lotteries that we know of contact people to tell them of their win.<\/li>\n<li>We do not know of any official lottery operators who ask for fees to collect winnings.\u00a0 Any request for a fee payment is a good indication that someone is trying to defraud you.<\/li>\n<li>Never disclose your bank details or pay fees in advance.<\/li>\n<li>If they have provided an email address to respond to, be very suspicious of addresses such as @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com or numbers beginning with 07 because these are free to get hold of.<\/li>\n<li>Genuine lotteries thrive on publicity. If they ask you to keep your win a secret, it is likely to be a fraud.<\/li>\n<li>Many fraudulent lotteries have bad spelling and grammar \u2013 see this as a warning that fraudsters are at work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you believe that you have been a victim of fraud you can report it online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud\">http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud<\/a> or by telephone 0300 123 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) has received intelligence regarding two new Lottery Fraud letters\/email attachments (Scam 1 &amp; Scam 2) using the 2016 Rio Olympics as a theme. The scams try to trick people into believing they have won the following: Scam 1: An online lottery prize of \u00a3650,000 and a trip to Brazil&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2015\/07\/18\/action-fraud-alert-rio-2016-olympics-lottery-scam-alert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Action Fraud Alert &#8211; Rio 2016 Olympics Lottery Scam Alert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crimewatch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/logo.gif?fit=121%2C93&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MmHE-wK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 03:18:45","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}