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 | We honestly get close to 50 emails a day with questions like this.
To answer this question would take a lot of time and effort and as such we advise our customers to rather do the research themselves, here are two links to get you started:
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| Do I need to pay a coureer company to recieve my winnings? |  |
| If anyone asks you to make a payment upfront to receive any type of lottery winning then they are trying to scam you... period.
The idea behind the scam is to get you to pay lots of small fees to get your "prize". So imagine this scenario:
You get a |
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| Lottery scams and Identity Theft | |
| Please do not give any information with regards to your identity to any one who claims that you have won a prize in a "mystery lottery" that you never entered into.
By handing over information to these people (ID / Address / etc.) you are setting yours |
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| This is a common email scam letter sent to people | |
| Attn: XXXXX ENTER PERSONS NAME HERE
Dear Sir,
BANK DEPOSIT IN YOUR FAVOUR.
This is to acknowledgment the receipt of your e-mail, and to
confirm the validity of the winning notification which you
received from the organisers of the lottery promo |
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| And another powerball scam email! | |
| This is yet another version of the scam emails going around:
Our Dear Winner,
You have won the sum of 9,000,000 (Nine Million Pounds Sterling) from
POWERBALL LOTTERY on our 2007 charity bonanza held on 9/5/2007.
The winning ticket was selected |
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| Another UK Lottery scam email | |
| THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
BRITISH LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS:
CUSTOMER SERVICE,
28 FANFIELD ROAD,CROYDON. LONDON W2 1EY
*******************************************
LOCAL OFFICE:LOCARD HOUSE,LINNET WAY , STATHCLYDE BUSINESS
PARK,BELLSHILL,
LANARK |
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| A sure way to see a scam email is by the FREE EMAIL ACCOUNT USED | |
| A very simple way to spot if you have received a scam lottery email is to look at the return email addresses.
Has the 'Agent' used any of the following email account:
1. Hotmail
2. Yahoo
3. mail.ru
If you are uncertain - visit the url that the |
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| A sure way to spot a scam email is BY THE FORMAT OF THE EMAIL |  |
| You have been told you have won millions - the email you have received is probably a scam... does it look something like this:
Ref: Uk/9420X2/26 |
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| Third Category draw winner! * yeah right * | |
| Thanks to another concerned customer who forwarded the following email to us so that our other members can have a sample of the sacam 419 emails that are being sent out.
From:(Customer Service)
Dear Winner,
This email is to notify you that yo |
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| Canada Lottery Scam | |
| The following is a scam email one of our customers received recently - yes, its a scam -
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The Canada Lottery Online
P.O. Box 9082 Calgar |
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| A very good scam / spam email | |
| Thank you for your email - I must admit this is one of the better scam/spam emails I have seen in a while.
1. The domain name in the email: the-national-lottery.org does not belong to us or any of our partners, however the perpetrators are linking to o |
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| Freelotto Fast Svc | |
| We have received a number of complaints from customers who have found the following charge on their credit card statements: "Freelotto Fast Svc"
Please be advised that this charge is not associated to the lotterynetwork.net.
To find out more about w |
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| Fraudulent cheques - lottery scams | |
| Someone wrote to me recently with regards to having received a cheque for a lotto game that he had allegedly won. He wanted to know if Mr Frank writing from a free email account was a legitimate representative of the "british national lottery".
I found |
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