Another E-mail Scam

krizon

krizon

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Not content with offering me untold millions if only I'll give various widows of Nigerian chiefs my bank details, I've been heartened to find I've just won $850,000 in TheLotter, a Benelux all-lotteries website, through the happy chance of just simply being picked at random, even though I have never heard of the site.

The e-mail's good, because thelotter.com DOES exist as a legal and proper website, but if you go to FAQs and look under 'is it a scam?' the answer is an unequivocal 'yes'. The web actually says that scammers have managed to do a pretty good job of appearing to represent them, but that any fortune obtained through non-participation is too good to be true.

So, dear forumites, I'm afraid the come-one-and-all hooley briefly envisaged for Cheltenham, Aintree, Epsom, Sha Tin and Dubai will have to be put on the back burner for a wee bit longer...
 
No need, Merlin - I've just received another wonderful offer to make a quick commission on helping out yet another assassinated African minister's widow! (Now we know where all that Oxfam money goes.) I reckon the Eastern Europeans are really burning up the gegabytes today, as I've also had a phoney Bank of Scotland one and another telling me my account is closed at a bank I've never even heard of. I wish I knew how to stick a really wicked virus onto a reply and wreck them for a while. According to one bank I phoned to alert them previously about this crap, the Eastern Europeans send out literally MILLIONS of these things every single day.
 
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