Lottery scams

I won another lottery! I’ve actually stopped counting, and I don’t publish every congratulation email I get, since very many of them are clones of eachother, only sent to my different puplicly available email addresses. But this one is special. It is very explicit, and even came with a registration form, official looking, with a […]

Many readers have contacted me to ask what can happen if you answer one of these lottery scam emails turning up in your mail. And even though I never went forward with any of these myself, Lance Smith has. Lance has alsw been kind enough to forward the email conversation he has had with the […]

I kind of like the two special perks in this lottery scam email received today. First, the sum, which might be different in every single mail the scammer send out. Second the fact that they state that I am one of the 25 winners. It’s there to provide us with just the little piece of […]

I’m getting immensly rich! What should I do with all this money I keep winning? I have already won a million Euro at least ten times this year, and today I received the below notice that I have won two more millions. Now wait… Why didn’t they tell me until now? The draw was in […]

If you even for a second or so had your hopes up for ghe grand prize of 1 million Euros in the so-called Loteria EuroBote, I’m sorry to say, I won too. And isn’t it strange? I think this is the tenth lottery I won this year… Techniqually speaking it was Drinkalizer.com that won, since […]

It’s clear that iScammers steal from eachother, implementing ideas that seem to work, just as scammers outside the internet always have done. However, on the web this isn’t such a great idea. After winning five different million Euro lotteries in just a week, people might start to read these winning notifications a bit more carefully. […]

01/11 2005 – I have been exceptionally lucky the last week. This is, I think, the fifth lottery that i won! I don’t actually publish all lottery scam mails i receive, but the more obviously bogus ones goes up here at once. So, even if the mail below was legitimate, why would they send it […]

I just can’t understand why some lottery scammers think that I would believe that someone would pick my e-mail address and assign it to a number, then randomly pick that number and try to send me 650 thousand Euros. But it looks like ”Mrs Susan De Meer” or whatever her real name is, thinks I […]

The obvious question to ask yourself when you receive a mail saying you just won 900,000 Euro is to ask yourself if you bought a lottery ticket in that particular lottery. If you didn’t, the chances for winning are less than scares. However, this particular scammer has thought about this. So the mail claims that […]