Sorry for being a spoilsport, but if you received this lottery scam mail (that looks like a Finnish-Swiss-Brazilian joint venture), I’d just like to warn you against trying to claim any proceedings. Most probably, there aren’t any. OY, is the Finnish abbreviation for Inc. Keikkaus sounds very Finnish to me, but the addres is in […]
Lottery scams
Lottery scams are widely used by fraudsters to try to scam people for small to medium sized sums of money. In the worst cases they even manage to get access to your bank account!
Lottery scammers using the Google brand name
The Signature Darwin sent me a lottery scam mail that actually has the nerve to use Google’s brand name. I guess I know one scammer who is about to get a swarm of corporate lawyers after him. Here is the lottery scam mail using the Google brand, such as I received it:
LOTERIA NACIONAL, lottery scam
Lottery scams are bad, but the scam mails for them could be better. (And then they would be even worse…) Who would ever believe this? I’ve never even bought a Spanish lottery ticket. Yet, something calling itself Loteria Nacional feels it has to inform me that my winnings is depostided but that they don’t really […]
SYNC INTERNATIONAL SWEEEPSTAKE LOTTERY NL
It happened again. I won another lottery without even entering! Seriously, with all the warnings for these types of scams, how can they keep it up? How many gullable people are there out there? Of course, it could be interesting to call one of those numbers… ask them why they use such strange email addresses […]
Lottery Scam – E.A.A.S Lottery Headquarters
The lottery scams seem to grow in popularity. Just as with the 419 scams, they attract their victims by the promise of a large sum of money, wrongfully earned, and just as non existing. Since you never actually bought that lottery ticket, you are less likely to presss charges when it turns out you have […]