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ALL the lotteries, draws, compensation schemes, inheritances, payment agent or mystery shopper jobs and business proposals offering huge sums of money are SCAMS. You CAN'T WIN a lottery or prize draw you HAVEN'T ENTERED. Please don't post comments asking if the SCAMS you have received are real. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS IN A COMMENT ASKING SCAMMERS TO CONTACT YOU (yes, people really do this regularly!)

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Which would you say is the country with the greatest reputation as being the home of internet scams?  Nigeria perhaps?  Clearly this scammer hasn’t heard that – because he seems to think that telling you have been awarded money from Nigeria might be believable!!  He can’t even be bothered to write the usual story about what you’ve won and why – a scammer, and a lazy one.

Just delete the email and don’t reply, [Continue reading RESPOND IMMEDIATELY]

FROM MARTINA. VERY PRIVATE PLEASE

A reader forwarded me this scam – which comes as an attachment to the email.  Mrs Kapesa tells me she is a university lecturer, then tells me the usual story – dead husband, millions of dollars, etc, etc.  If I had 20million dollars, I wouldn’t be working as a poorly paid lecturer, I’d be on a yacht in the Caribbean sipping cocktails.

You might wonder why Mrs Kapesa isn’t doing just that.  Simple.  She’s [Continue reading FROM MARTINA. VERY PRIVATE PLEASE]

Loan Offer at 2%

“Mr Tony Philip” is one mixed up scammer.  He can’t even get his story right.  Does he work for DHG, or does he work for the Royal Bank of Cardiff – the what??  There is no such thing as the Royal Bank of Cardiff.  And “Mr Philips” or “Mrs cecilia akoa” isn’t Welsh, or even British.  If she really is a secretary she should be sacked immediately – her typing and spelling are atrocious [Continue reading Loan Offer at 2%]