Learn To Spot Lottery Scams
Tuesday December 2, 2008
Lottery scams via email have an unfortunate place as a part of modern lottery history, so learn how to spot them. A good rule of thumb when you receive an email about a lottery win is to think whether it is too good to be true. While being overly suspicious of opportunities can limit you, the key to that is the word ';overly'. When you receive an unsolicited email saying you have won $30 million, you are not being overly suspicious for doubting it.
If you did not enter the lottery that the email is talking about, how could you have won? Often lottery scams will claim that they found your name in a database. How did the lottery make any money, then? There is a reason that you have to pay for lottery entries - the prize money has to come from somewhere and the operators need to get paid as well! It would be poor lottery strategy on the organisers' parts if they ran a massive lottery without money coming in.
If you have already accidentally responded to a lottery scam email, you will likely be asked to transfer a substantial amount of money to a bank account in order to ';facilitate the transfer of your prize'. This is how the scammers make their money. Money is transferred, it turns out it isn't enough, more money is transferred, still not enough, and so on, until the mark has put so much in that they feel desperation. Either it turns out to be true, or else they are ruined. Don't fall for these scams. Contact the appropriate authorities to report incidences of fraud or an attempt at defrauding you.
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