| Lottery Scams |
| Thursday, 05 July 2007 00:00 |
Last week my wife received a letter from some lottery organisation stating that she’d won a prize, guaranteed, of £9,000. It looked all official, they used the right words in the right place, had our details correct. Heck, it even had the official seal, authenticating it as genuine.So when she showed it to me with the “look at what I’ve won” gleeful look I couldn’t help feel that this was a scam. So what alerted me to the scam? Well first, you usually have to enter a lottery in order to be able to win it. She didn’t enter any. The second and most poignant warning sign though was the fee required to release the £9,000 winnings. My reply was, “let them deduct that from the overall winnings then”. … and the third and final point was the complete lack of phone numbers to ring. So I googled their name and up it came in the top 20 list of lottery scammers. In to the shredder went the claim forms. Add your comment |