Have you won the Facebook lottery?
The Facebook lottery is a variation on the classic ‘advance fee scam’ or fraud, which works like this. A scammer tells you you’ve won the lottery, but says that to claim your winnings, you need to send them a sum of money. The sum is always relatively small in relation to the size of your promised win – a few hundred dollars perhaps – and might be described as a ‘security deposit’, ‘delivery cost’, ‘conversion fee’ or similar. You send the money in the belief that you’ll receive a much larger sum in return. Of course, you never see the fee again and your winnings never materialise.
8 Nov 2017 ... The Facebook lottery is a variation on the classic 'advance fee scam' or fraud, which works like this. A scammer tells you you've won the lottery, ...