Comments on: 10 Reasons why this lottery email is fake

By: cindy

cindy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:59:27 +0000

I am sick of recieving emails from nigeria saying God bless you but i am dying of cancer and have $500,000.00 which i would like you to have please sent me your details so i can sent the money to someone who will make good use of it. Isnt there anyway these people can be stopped.

By: Rachael

Rachael — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:55:10 +0000

Im nineteen and got sent this email, it asked for my name and address and stuff, i thought hey it looks ok but i have never been one to give my bank account details away to anyone, i was a weak target because im so young and yea a bit nieve maybe but if it had have asked for my bank account i would have guessed straight away anyways so i replied and got another email back about how it was being processed and paperwork would be sent out to me i was not going to reply to this one and refuse to , i sent them email back saying that i dont want anything they send me and hopefully they will get the picture

thankyou for the advice next time i will know

By: CAROL

CAROL — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:38:05 +0000

OH YEAH! I just wanted to say that Cyril(#16) that I really liked his humor, but I had to read it more than once to see for sure that he wasn’t serious!
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By: Cyril Nerfson

Cyril Nerfson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:39:04 +0000

I disagree with the author of this topic and I think the process of discouraging people to give away their personal details is irresponsible. Clearly the authors of these emails are intelligent individuals, as is evident in their grasp of the written word, and as such, have used their ingenuity to amass great wealth.

Stereotypically, extremely wealthy people, are excited by the prospect of giving away inordinate sums of money, for seemingly no apparent reason, and do so wherever the opportunity may arise. Bill gates is a prime example. All you have to do it forward one of his emails and he gives you $100. Easy money I say!

I for one cannot hand over my details quickly enough and usually forego the mundane backward and forwarding of emails by simply providing my bank and credit card details in the first email to try to speed things along.

Unfortunatley, I’ve found few opportunities to partake in such activities recently as my internet access keeps getting cut off due to insufficient funds in my bank account for direct debits. Ironically enough, money seems to be mysteriously disappearing from my account rather than accumulating! I suspect that there is someone at the bank who’s up to no good!

This is of little concern to me, however, as I’m expecting a cool $70 Million to hit my account any day now from a dead aunt whom I never met, who lived in South Africa. Who’d have thought she choose me!? Luck certainly seems to be going my way as not a week beforehand, I was fortunate enough to be given my $23 Million share of an $800 Million left by some French diamond miner, simply for sounding like I’m a good bloke!? Nuts! These people are crazy! CRAZY!

Anyway, I must be going as I’ve just started a business buying cartons of a dozen eggs for $5 and selling each egg for 20c each. Business is booming, I can barely keep up!

Ta ta.

By: kathryn

kathryn — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:59:07 +0000

yep
definitely a scam!

http://www.scamemail.co.uk

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:56:15 +0000

hi. If i had answered all those fake Emails i received in a year, AND if they were truth and genuine, i would be now multi billionaire! EVERYDAY nearly i receive those kinds of Emails. Most of them come from South Africa or Nigeria. Some of them sounds like a particular individual who is looking for a partner to transfer a HUGE amount of money, mostly several millions dollars or to share a will or something. The first time i believed it, but i did some research, and i never gave my bank account details. In my country, Ireland, a poor priest had fallen into this kind of trap and got his bank account emptied! Anyway, no risk for me, as my bank account is always -!

By: Racundra

Racundra — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:03:26 +0000

Splendid email address reported by Wolfgang Müller above:
micro.soft.costumercare@hotmail.com
Costumer care = dry cleaners?
On a more serious note, bad English, erratic capitals, typos etc are all a dead giveaway of a scam. The danger is that criminals will get more sophicticated and make sure their text is immaculate. That’s already begun to happen in phishing, though not yet (thankfully) in those interminable emails from African bank officials.

By: Michael Hyder

Michael Hyder — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:14:46 +0000

Thanks a lot! You really helped me not to be got on the hook.

By: Dom Latter

Dom Latter — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:56:09 +0000

This email is, of course, bogus, but I am willing to bet that the primary purpose is NOT identity theft; rather it is the very common “advance fee fraud”. Once the victim has been drawn in, they are told that they need to pay an “administration fee” or somesuch to collect their winnings.

Looking at the full headers of this email would probably reveal its point of origin and so make it easier to judge whether identity theft was the name of the game. In other words somebody on a different continent isn’t going to find it so easy to apply for a credit card in your name as someone in the same country (which is far far more likely than “emptying your bank account”).

By: Andy willden

Andy willden — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:50:53 +0000

Hi thanks for the confirmation of what i already knew. I like to lead them on a bit to see how far they go. There now asking for my passport and driving licence details for proof before they give me £1.750mill. PLUS they want £1750to insure the money before they hand it over Iv had two others regarding a house rental and they payed with a forged certified cheque. I printed it all off and gave it to my banks security dept who passed it on to the FBI. I hope this is of some use to others

By: Meghan

Meghan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:03:38 +0000

I have gotten dozens of these types of email and more from scam artists. Some emails come as Lottery Winnings,People on their death bed trying to help the poor or orphans, Bank officials trying to get closed account money by making me the next of Kin, Soldiers in Iraq stealing money from war criminals, Work from home make 10% by just handling transfers between clients me and business, and even casino scams. BEWARE DO NOT LET TEMPTATION LET YOU FALL INTO THEIR TRAPS OF SCAMMING YOU! I have never responded to the dozen of these types of emails I recieve a DAY, simply because as one man put it on your site I would be millions of dollars richer in just days! If its to good to be true-sad to say but then it is! I am glad I found this site because I plan on forwarding all these emails from now on so that they may be tracked and investigated, so that others may not suffer.

By: Geli of Alberta

Geli of Alberta — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:53:28 +0000

My ride with them went as far as sending me a certificate of winning in the amount of 500,000 Euro-sterling pounds. I spoke with my fiduciary agent Mr. Adams and the bank correspondent of UK Microsoft and both have strong Chinese accent instead of deep English accent.Don’t you think so? They asked me to open a non-residential account with a minimun deposit of 1200 pounds compared to 1Million pounds required by Credit Suisse Bank of UK. Beware! They have improved their modus operandi looking for a weaker prey in this computer era. The notification I got came from one of our local microsoft offices here in Western Canada with UK Microsoft as their International partner.