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ALL the lotteries, draws, compensation schemes, inheritances, payment agent or mystery shopper jobs and business proposals offering huge sums of money are SCAMS. You CAN'T WIN a lottery or prize draw you HAVEN'T ENTERED. Please don't post comments asking if the SCAMS you have received are real. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS IN A COMMENT ASKING SCAMMERS TO CONTACT YOU (yes, people really do this regularly!)

Letter From Mrs.Scott Parker

The scammer, who appears to come from Argentina, tells me “we happily announce” that I have won.  The reason they are happy to tell me is because they hope (wrongly) that I will send them lots of money for fees.  I won’t.  Neither should you.  Just delete the email and don’t reply.

Euro Million Lottery UNITED KINGDOM Ref: UKLOSL/941OYI/67 Batch: 19/47/1067

We happily announce to you the draw (#1067) of the Euro [Continue reading Letter From Mrs.Scott Parker]

Confirmation Email Ref No: (07-62-34-28-99)

1m Euros today.  Another fake sweepstake draw.  Another scammer hoping to con you into parting with your money by paying an advance fee.  Don’t get take in.  Delete the email and don’t reply.

Confirmation Email Ref No: (07-62-34-28-99)

Reply to Email: thomasgastonran@aim.com

You have won 1,000.000.00 Euro ( One Million Euro only), in the Euromillions Email Sweepstakes Program Corporation, held on the 23rd January,2009 ,in [Continue reading Confirmation Email Ref No: (07-62-34-28-99)]

My Name Is Mrs Farida Waziri

Submitted by a reader

My Name is Mrs Farida Waziri the new Economic and Financial Crimes Commission chairperson in Nigeria.

I understand you are expecting your delayed fund to be wired to your bank account, but some top government officials and bank partners will not tell you the truth about the whereabouts of your fund and all they are doing is to tell you to pay outrageous fees which [Continue reading My Name Is Mrs Farida Waziri]

Mia Robertson Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [Etrust.mia.job@gmail.com]

Submitted by a reader:

Dear “potential victim”,

Online company with world reputation is expanding and looking for new representatives!

We need independent agents, who can represent our company in regions. Agent should receive and process payments from our clients.

It’s not a full-time position. You will be busy only 8-11 hours per week. Full-time job can be proposed as soon as official [Continue reading Mia Robertson Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [Etrust.mia.job@gmail.com]]

Fw: Online Update From HM Revenue & Customs

Another scam masquerading as officialdom.  If you live in the UK and receive this, you’ll know who HMRC are.  If you don’t, it won’t mean anything!  By the time this was sent to me, the scam site it linked to had been removed, so I don’t know what information they asked for.  Can’t imagine the scammer was offering to log in and pay your income tax online for you though!

Online LogoFw: Online Update From HM Revenue & Customs]

Pls Contact Citylink Courier Ltd

Another advance fee fraud.  I know that because they ask for an advance fee!!!  It’s all rubbish.  You aren’t really expecting $800k now are you?  So why do you suppose someone you’ve never heard of would send you that much money?  They won’t.

Just delete the email and don’t reply.

Greetings,

I have been waiting for you since to contact me for your Confirmable Bank Draft of $800.000.00 United States Dollars, but [Continue reading Pls Contact Citylink Courier Ltd]

how are you

Mr Ben tells me he is from the Congo and has impossibly large amounts of money which he wants to randomly give to anyone, anywhere who answers his random email.  Now does that really sound likely to you?  Of course it doesn’t.  He’s a scammer.  I he really had multi-millions to invest he would be doing so via his own solicitor or financial advisor.

He just wants to take your money by charging you [Continue reading how are you]

Mr.Alexander Hanks

Talk about thick – as two short planks with room to spare.  This daft scammer left this as a comment.  No, it wasn’t a reader submitting this as a scam, it was the scammer himself leaving this as a comment.  

Legitimate and reputable – he’s not.  Thick and stupid – he is!!  And he doesn’t want to lend you mony, he wants to take money from you by charging you fees.

Just ignore [Continue reading Mr.Alexander Hanks]

YOUR EMAIL WON £856,000.00 in category "B"

My email address has won.  Although this scammer’s imagination then failed them.  The can’t decide which company they represent or why they think I should have won anything.  Probably because they don’t represent any company and I haven’t won anything!

Your e-mail address attached to the Ref: UK/9420X2/68 with Batch:074/05/ZY369 which subsequently won you the sum of GBP ?856,000.00 in category “B” credited to the file Ref N0:KPL/09-002/JA.

To [Continue reading YOUR EMAIL WON £856,000.00 in category "B"]

Restore your access

Submitted by a reader:

Your account is suspended due to Abbey National Plc major Terms are being changed. To re-activate your account you need to complete the Abbey National security page to verify the legitimate account holder: Click here to re-activate your account Your account will be automatically activated after security details confirmed. We would consider terminating your access to your saved funds if you failed to verify the rightful holder of [Continue reading Restore your access]