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PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE USING THIS BLOG.

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!)

With Due Respect

Allow me to translate “Mr Desmond Williams’” email:

“I sourced your email from a human resource profile database” = “I’m a scammer and I bought a vast list of email addresses”.

I am particularly interested in securing this money from the Bank” = “I am hoping you will fall for my scam and start sending me money”.

If you make the mistake of replying, this scammer will start asking you to send money for [Continue reading With Due Respect]

CAN I TRUST YOU?

This is an old scam doing the rounds again with a few changes.  The scammer is trying to persuade you that he has access to millions of dollars left behind in his bank by a mega rich foreigner who, surprise, died in a nasty accident.

There are no millions.  No-one died in a nasty accident.  The nasty accident will happen if you reply – because this scammer will start asking you to send him [Continue reading CAN I TRUST YOU?]

WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY

It must be my lucky week.  Hot on the heels of my (fake) Microsoft draw win of £1m I received this – to tell me I’ve won $2.4m.

I hope you don’t really think these emails are true.  If they were – I wouldn’t be sitting in my little house typing this, would I?  I’d be lying on a tropical island, sipping cocktails in between a little gentle exercise snorkling in the clear blue [Continue reading WORLD CUP 2010 FREE LOTTERY]

CALL NOW TO CLAIM YOUR WINNING PRIZE

“Richard Adams” writes to tell me I have won £1m from Microsoft.  How kind of them – not.  All I need to do is give him a few personal details and phone him on his mobile.  Does that sounds like the behaviour of a legitimate prize draw organisation?  Of course it doesn’t.  As I always say – you cannot win a lottery or draw unless you’ve entered. This is a scammer – who wants [Continue reading CALL NOW TO CLAIM YOUR WINNING PRIZE]