British scammers have their own Nigerian 419 fraud. This is working simply a more northerly version of the old Nigerian oil-lottery-estate-personal assistance e-mail scam. Phishers send e-mails to so many people telling them that they have won an extraordinary amount of money. They never want you to contact them directly. Instead of that the email asks you to fill out a form with your personal information. But the scammers don't want you to fill out the form, when you could simply just click a link. That's when the phisher has you. So don't click on any links in your mails from unknown people. It is illegal to buy or sell foreign lotteries in the United States. Remember, if it sounds very good to be true, it probably is. The British didn't simply give away the United States.
Labels: 419 scam, email scam, email spam, lottery, spam news
Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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