7. Winning Number
With the different promotions being done by companies to reward their customers, scammers are keying into this scheme to defraud people in Lagos.
Text messages are sent to random numbers that they are the lucky winners of largeamounts of money in the on-going promo of a company.
A phone number is provided for you to call in order to claim your money. That is where the scamming begins as you are asked to pay some amount of money for the money to be transferred to you.
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