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Many people receive emails purportedly from a UK lottery operator stating that you have won the UK lottery without even having purchased any UK lottery tickets. Such emails will urge you to get in touch with the sender to receive your winnings. However, these are all spam emails that should be discarded without a second thought.

Genuine UK lottery operators do not send such mails and if you have ever bought UK lottery tickets from a genuine operator you will know that they never act in such a manner. It is therefore necessary to learn to distinguish a genuine notification of winning from those that are scams. Fortunately, scamsters are careless and will leave a few telltale signs that you should know about so that you can reduce the risk of being duped by them.

The best way of spotting spam and scam emails is by considering the fact that a person cannot win something that they have not entered. So, if you have not bought any UK lottery tickets, then the question of winning the UK lottery does not arise.

Another way to spot a scam email is by being alert to the secretive nature of the emails. When a fraud is to be committed, the fraudster will act secretively and if this is something that you notice with an email claiming that you have won the lottery, then you should suspect it to be a scam and nothing more.

So be careful that you do not fall into the secrecy trap and divulge your personal information which will be stolen and then used for illegal means.

A genuine UK lottery does not have any claims agents and so when somebody claims to be an agent of a UK lottery operator, you should understand that they are trying to deceive you.

Lastly, be sure to look at the language used in the emails. Legitimate operators that for example sell UK lottery tickets will not use certain terms such as Winning Notification or Lottery Sweepstakes. If you see these terms then you must realize at the outset that this is a suspicious email.