Note: I am not a lawyer and nothing here is legal advice. YOU are responsible for your online activity, but it’s easy to get fooled by scammers, so use COMMON SENSE and be safe. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. If you found this information helpful, pass it along and help others avoid online fraud! Pay it forward!
by Robert Gillis
This gem arrived in my spam folder today, and it was so perfectly, wonderfully, amazingly STUPID that I just had to share this one. Obviously, it’s fraud, just delete it, but there ARE folks who get taken every year by these scammers, so again, to anyone who doe not understand this fraud: Please be safe and delete it.
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by Robert Gillis
True story: I received this email today; I have not edited it; this is what I got, errors and all:
From: FREE LOTTO CLAIM OFFICER
Sent: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 8:56 am
Subject: Validation Of Your winning Funds
ATTN: Winner,
I am Mr. Richard Smith your claims officer, I wish to Congratulate you, you are a lucky person to have won this lottery.
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published in the Boston City Paper 10/2007
SCAM: You receive an email from a someone you don’t know claiming you have won a large amount of money in a lottery you have never heard of. He promises you, a total stranger (but a trusted one) all the details to collect your billions.
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by Robert Gillis
published in the Foxboro Reporter, 1/2006 & 1/2007 and the Boston City Paper, 6/2006 & 1/2007.
Since eBay no longer allows this ad that I have posted for EIGHT YEARS, I invite you to read it here! (They won’t allow it because I’m not selling or buying anything).
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published in the Foxboro Reporter 11/2005 and Boston City Paper, 2006
SCAM: You receive an email from a “wealthy foreigner” (usually someone related to the royal family or something) who needs help moving millions of dollars from his homeland. He promises you, a total stranger (but a trusted one) a hefty percentage of this fortune as a reward for assisting him.