This, of course, is not from Free Lotto. It says it's from zpmc.net, which is in some oriental language, so I had Google translate it. The page says it's under construction. Free Lotto is a real site, run since 1999, where you can apparently win lottery prizes. I've never played, so I'm not sure how it works, or if it does work. To stay up for the 12 years that they claim, they must be making money somehow. The bottom line is that if you didn't go to Free Lotto's website, sign up, and play their games, then you didn't win.
Seriously, if you did not play even one single game with any lottery, why the hell would they call you or e-mail you out of the blue, and tell you that you've won? You never signed up, and never took any chances at winning, so they wouldn't. They wouldn't have any idea where to e-mail you at. It looks as if these scammers are trying to hook people who have played lotto games before, just as they try to hook people into giving up their bank account information when they may or may not have an account at the bank in question. They even list Free Lotto's winning numbers, straight off their website. Furthermore, this scam-mail (near the top left on the webpage, below) says they want you to respond to a free Hotmail address. If this were Free Lotto, why would they not want you to respond to a freelotto.com address? It's because they have no access to Free Lotto's e-mail server. That's why all of these are scams, because they always want you to respond to a free e-mail address. They even have the audacity to issue the warning, again, straight off of Free Lotto's website, trying to convince you that they are with Free Lotto. They're not. "Warning! Fraudulent e-mails are circulating, that appear to be using Free Lotto addresses, but are not from The Free Lotto. PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO: [email protected]." LOL. For more of these, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You. These scams assume that you have been scammed in the past, and try to convince you that there is some sort of "compensation" available, so scam victims can get their money back, and then some. This one says something about the "World Bank Group of the United States" LOL. I'm pretty sure the World Bank is an international organization. The "United Nations" is supposedly in "conjunction" with them and Nigeria's central bank to get you your "fund" of USD$750,000, which does not exist, of course. It never does. All you need to do is reply to their "official email" at a free email address ROFL. To see more of these 419 compensation scams, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You.
This creature is anything but your "dear friend." This scam is very simple, not very imaginative, and spelled out on my website, a little ways down the page on the left. Basically, "she" has gone away to Japan, and has deposited your "consignment" of $5 million with a security company. It's just a classic delivery scam. Click Here to see more of these, and there's a UPS scam video Here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You.
A "Ms. R.B." claiming to represent the UN Secretary-General says an "agreement" was reached by other "world leaders" to "settle some African foreign debt," and they have "map" out USD$95 billion. Your name, of course, was submitted to her office, and you are to contact someone at a free e-mail address about how much you are not getting LOL. See more of these 419 UN scam samples by Clicking Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You.
I imagine there really is someone named Kofi Ansah Frances, who really is the executive director at the Bank of Ghana. There's one little problem: that's not who this scammer is. These are most often Nigerian 419 scams, since a lot of them have a +229 telephone number attached, but with this it's hard to tell. It can be more or less pinpointed by mapping the IP number it came from, but it could have gone through a proxy server, too. It says it's from a free Russian e-mail address, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. You can go to mail.ru and sign up yourself. Anyway, I'm rambling; there's a few more of these from "Ghana," Click Here. Please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank you.
"Kim" says she's with the UK National Lottery Commission, and wants your "assistance" to collect on an "unclaimed" winning lottery ticket. While supposedly living in London -- she doesn't actually say so -- she says the "winning amount" is 8,497,985, with a question mark in place of the British Pound Sterling Symbol '£' LOL. Don't help her, let her figure it out on her own. So we can see "what she is talking about," she points us at two different lottery stories that are each at least five years old. To see more of these lottery scams, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You.
There was of course, never any "first attempt." This scammer tries to convince us that his first scam-mail went "undelivered," and he is trying to reach us at "the same e-mail address" that is on the "WILL." The scam-mail, however, was bulk mailed out to hundreds of e-mail addresses, maybe more. He points out the word "WILL" in particular to grab your attention. Some "late engineer" has made you a "beneficiary" to his "WILL," $22.5 million, in fact, and yet having nothing to do with any facts whatsoever LOL. He grabs not only our attention, but also our emotions as well, stating that the nonexistent money is for the "poor and needy." How touching. If you get back to him, however, he will no doubt tell you that you will get to keep part of "the money." For more of these crazy "next-of-kin" scam samples, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You.
"Mrs. Larry Lee" has an "ATM Card" for you with $4.9 million on it. Yeah, and I have a statue in New York Harbor to sell you, too. How they can think that any of us would be "contractors" having anything to do with the African country of Benin is beyond me; it's quite a mystery. To get your "card," which does not exist of course, they want you to send them money first. No no, they can't take the fee out of the millions, it never works like that. You can replace "ATM" with "BS," because that's just what it is: Pure 24 carat BS. For more of these scams, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank You.
This scam is pretty simple. The scammer is just saying that a "private organization" has deposited an ATM Card worth $1.5 million with them, with "your e-mail address" attached. This scam-mail was, of course, bulk mailed out to several e-mail addresses, probably several hundred. Oh, and you better hurry, because there's an "expiration date" attached LOL. More of these silly scam-mail samples, Click Here, and please follow me on Twitter @inscamerated. Thank you.
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AuthorMy name is Gary, and I live in the Midwestern United States. This site is intended to expose the frauds and scams that are so pervasive on the internet, especially today. One hundred per- cent of the e-mails you get that promise you millions are never, ever real. They'll tell you they're "dying," trying to gain your sympathy. They're not dying, they're lying. Click Here for the "Dying" scams. Don't fall for it, and never send them any money, no matter what they tell you. Oh, and good luck hacking this website. It's got a nice strong password on it. Archive
July 2012
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