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Dartful Dodger:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on May 09, 2009, 08:15:05 am ---Actually, this is a much more organised scam than the ol' email crap. It's an actual letter (snail mail, those bits of paper that go in envelopes- envelopes, those bits of paper folded to make a holder for snail mail). The letter is a large sheet of high quality printed material, about A3. double page, double sided. The 'official' look to it is bolstered  by the quality of printing you see on cheques.

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I get a lot of those from time shares and car dealerships, even insurance companies are doing that.

At least once a week I shred a bogus looking check.  What sux is, what if one of those was a real check?  That junk snail mail could be costing me money.



F’n Holland and its royal family allowing their subjects to make money off of the stupid people from other countries.

shmokes:
It's probably a government scheme to pay for the Royal family.

For real, wtf?  Do lotteries work differently in the EU than the US?  If I buy a lottery ticket nobody would know that I won unless I say, "Hey . . . look.  I won!"  Why would you get this letter and think it was real if, for example, you hadn't bought a lottery ticket or, for example, if you didn't have a winning lottery ticket in your possession?  Or is it just something into which every taxpayer is automatically entered?

danny_galaga:

did you guys miss the bit where i mention it 'takes the form of an entry form'? scams have come full circle back to the time honoured tradition of getting people to send them money, rather than phishing for account details...

shmokes:
Wait . . . they get people to pay them $25 without even telling them they've won?  $25 just to play???  Hahahahahahahahaha   :laugh2:

Franco B:
There is no such thing as the british lottery. There is the National Lottery where you have to pay to enter it.

There have been a few of these scams around as late and one major bust was made a few weeks ago. They generally inform you that you have one ten brazillion pounds but to claim it you have to send a ~£25 'admin fee'.

Occasionally once the crooks have you hooked, they keep asking for more and more money before you can claim 'your prize'.

Two things stick out here....

1) Do you really expect to win a competition you never even entered?

2) If you have won ten brazillion pounds why would you need to pay an admin fee? They would just take it off your winnings (not that the admin fees would be collected in that way anyhow).

If something sounds too be good to be true......

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