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ALL of the lotteries, draws, compensation schemes, inheritances, work at home offers and business proposals that you receive by email or in the post ARE SCAMS.
NO ORGANISATION ANYWHERE EVER holds random email draws. They are ALL SCAMS. You CANNOT WIN a lottery or prize draw that you HAVE NOT ENTERED.
Please don't post comments asking me if the scams you have received are real. I can't answer them all and you KNOW they are scams!

AWARD WINNING NOTICE

I say this on every lottery post.  No organisation anywhere ever holds random lottery draws.  It just doesn’t happen.  You CANNOT WIN a lottery/draw that you haven’t entered.  These emails are all scams.  The scammer wants to take your money by charging you fees.  Ignore him or her.

AWARD WINNING NOTICE
Ref No.802/734/756
Batch No.975/7543093
Ticket/Series No.NL7596453
Amount Won: $2,500,000.00 USD

Attn: Email Bearer,

This is to formally inform and congratulate you on the result of [Continue reading AWARD WINNING NOTICE]

HSBC Online Banking Alert on your Check Card

I hope you know that you should NEVER click on a link in a bank email – even if it appears to come from your bank.  Your bank will NEVER ask you to verify your details online.    If you think there might be suspicious activity on your account – check online if you have internet banking (enter the address of your bank website DIRECTLY in your browser, don’t click on a link) – or [Continue reading HSBC Online Banking Alert on your Check Card]

“USD$2.Million Dollars”

This bit of amateur rubbish looks like something a student on one of my beginners courses would produce as an exercise. (No disrespect meant to my students – just to this scammer).  It used WordArt, numbered paragraphs, bold, italic & underline.  Yes – everything I teach my students before asking them to design a poster.

As I’ve said many times before – no organisation anywhere ever holds random email draws.  It doesn’t happen.  Ever.

Just ignore [Continue reading “USD$2.Million Dollars”]

SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS!

Have you been defrauded out of $500k???  I doubt it.  So why would you think this is real?  It isn’t.  It’s just a scammer who wants to take money from you by charging you fees.  In fact the scammer tells you to send $155.  Why on earth would you have to pay to receive the money if you really were entitled to it.

Just delete this email and don’t reply.

FROM: Charterd Finance & Securities

SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATIONS PAYMENTS!]

Award Winning Notice

I sometimes feel I’ve been running this blog so long that everyone should know this by now – “No organisation anywhere ever holds random email draws.  You cannot win a draw or lottery that you haven’t entered. Ever”.

This is another scam – designed to take your hard earned cash away from you and put it into the pockets of a scammer.  Ignore it.

AWARD WINNING NOTICE
Ref No.802/734/756
Batch No.975/7543093
Ticket/Series No.NL7596453
Amount Won: $2,500,000.00 USD

Attn: [Continue reading Award Winning Notice]

Claim your Child Benefit

This is a scam. NEVER click on a link in an email that claims to come from a government department. ALWAYS enter the address of the department you want DIRECTLY into your browser.

If I click on the link, this is where it takes me:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk.hmrc-child.com/childbenefit/start/claiming/refund.php?item=248174125491817

Look at that link carefully. The first part ends with hmrc-child.com – this is NOT the address of the real inland revenue site.

Claim your Child Benefit]

FROM ANITA MOYO (URGENT NEED)

“Mrs Moyo”  tells me she is in “urgent need”.  What is she in urgent need of?  My money – or yours.  She’s a scammer.  She doesn’t have millions of dollars inherited after the untimely death of her husband in tragic circumstances.  She wants to get her hands on your money by charging you fees.  Ignore her.

Goodday,
My name is Mrs Anita Moyo, I am the wife of late Mr Sipho Moyo who was murdered [Continue reading FROM ANITA MOYO (URGENT NEED)]