Post by stevenr1953 on Jan 27, 2015 23:29:59 GMT
1 if you can't remember buying a ticket for their lottery you probably didn't. If you didn't buy a ticket you can't have won. Nobody gives away big lottery prizes unless they have sold more tickets than the prizes are worth. No reputable lottery ever requires you to pay a fee to collect your winnings.
2 an e-mail says "I like your profile on the site" but they don't say which site. Is your profile that contains your e-mail address publicly available on a site? There are no sites that I use/have used that ever put your e-mail up for all to see. If an e-mail starts with an obvious lie don't open it or reply.
3 an e-mail starts with "there is a problem with your account", "you are due for a refund", "your account has been blocked" it is almost certainly a scam even if the logo on the e-mail looks genuine. Copy and paste a logo from somewhere is very easy. No reputable organisation would send out an e-mail like that without some proof that it was genuine and none would ever ask you to confirm account details on line.
I have had some fun with some of the "women" from Nigeria and Ghana. I sound very enthusiastic and promise them whatever money they ask for. as soon as they provide me with the bank account details I need to transfer the money to them I forward that on to the specialist international fraud section of our police force here. Then the scammer goes into my ignore list
2 an e-mail says "I like your profile on the site" but they don't say which site. Is your profile that contains your e-mail address publicly available on a site? There are no sites that I use/have used that ever put your e-mail up for all to see. If an e-mail starts with an obvious lie don't open it or reply.
3 an e-mail starts with "there is a problem with your account", "you are due for a refund", "your account has been blocked" it is almost certainly a scam even if the logo on the e-mail looks genuine. Copy and paste a logo from somewhere is very easy. No reputable organisation would send out an e-mail like that without some proof that it was genuine and none would ever ask you to confirm account details on line.
I have had some fun with some of the "women" from Nigeria and Ghana. I sound very enthusiastic and promise them whatever money they ask for. as soon as they provide me with the bank account details I need to transfer the money to them I forward that on to the specialist international fraud section of our police force here. Then the scammer goes into my ignore list
