Most of us are aware of he regular email scams from the manager of a bank in some part of africa saying there is $450,000 waitng to be claimed etc etc etc and all we have to do is give our bank details for deposits to be made etc, and we ignore them, but this latest one might, for some people, have the ring of truth about it BEWARE

I received this email a short time
.....

My wife and I won the Biggest Euro Millions Lottery Jackpot of £101,203,600.70 GBP and we have commenced our 2012 Cash/Charity Donation programme as we will be donating the sum of 1,500,000.00 Pounds to you and your family. please visit the web link below to confirm; ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi...and-family.html ) Kindly send us the below details so that we can direct our Bank can effect a valid Bank Draft in your name to your operational bank account in your country Full Name: Country: Age: Occupation: Sex:male Mobile/Tel: Dave & Angela Dawes.
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For information purposes Dave and Angela Dawes did in fact win that amount of money last year and they did immediately make their best friend a millionaire, but this email is just another scam aimed at getting bank details so PLEASE PLEASE ignore it

Dam..... I give them my bank details aswell, does this mean I won't get any thing.

come on willo some people might be taken in by it becuase the couple named did in fact win all at money last yeear

bollocks, only dreamers would be takin in by such nonsence

People that post these warnings here need an instant permaban.

Sorry, have to agree.

ok so I am thick so much for trying to help

cb, take no notice and don't bite, they feed on it like carrion crows.

nobody is calling you thick carbooter, maybe you are new to this, this has been going on for many years.

The loot newspaper being the worst for it, idiots phoning and wanting to put £4000 in your bank to pay for a £1200 car, it doesn`t take a rocket scientist to spot a scam.

Thats not nice bandy

Just giving the lad a friendly tip Ste, keeping the peace so to speak.

I find it amusing people who do fall for these scams. Not only are they incredibly stupid, but they fall for them due to nothing but self-greed and not wanting to do an honest days work for an honest days pay (or actually bothering to play the lottery themselves). Something such as this has to be illegal, one way or another.

It's a dog eat dog world, survival of the fittest. People should not be made aware of these "scams", if they are stupid/greedy enough to fall for them, they learn a far better lesson in life afterwards.

If something seems too good to be true...

Myself and the missus heard a bloke talking to our OAP neighbour and telling him that he could give him an estimate on the work required to fix his roof. Heard the neighbour telling him that he would get his own builder to sort it. When I asked the neighbour, today, what had happened he said that the bloke knocked on his door after noticing that there was a problem on his roof, got his ladder off the white van, put it up, climbed it, lifted up a ridge tile and said he could fix it, at a price. After I'd heard the neighbour saying "nay" he did indeed get his usual builder in to have a look at it and the builder told him that the cheeky b......d had lifted the ridge tile himself, there was nothing wrong with it up until then. Now do old folk need warning that these scrotes are doing the rounds at the moment or do you just leave them to their own devices to be scammed? Luckily our man is pretty savvy for his age, other poor buggers are not so lucky, they used to be sharp but they are not any more. Just a coincidence about who gets caught by scammers, not everyone has the same mental capacity. Think on.

seems Ihave invited the sort of comments I have received..the only reason I mentioned it was because the couple named did genuinely give away a million pounds to a friend as soon as they cashed the cheque and that people who had read that sort of pulicity might have been duped that the supposed couple were intent on helping other people

Anyone that would fall for something like that is a moron and deserves to be ripped off.

Bandy that's a bad example. Apples to oranges, people gullible enough to fall for something like this shouldn't be allowed to have internet connections.

And this isn't local news.

I thnk it is unfair categrizing everyone who might be suckered in as a moron.....dont forget there are many lonely people in this world who might rely on the internet and the like for compamy and who might have believed bcaues of he fact that tthe names mentioned were genuine winners of all that money that they did indeed want to help other people..not everyone is able to sort the wheat from the chaff but that does not make them morons

It all boils down to greed and stupidity with all these types of scams. Serves them right.

I beg to differ (and I think you'll find I'm not the only one). Anyone answering questions like this to an anon email deserves everything they get.

I would warn people even if they ARE greedy and stupid. Mainly because scammers/confidence tricksers are amoral scumbags who don't deserve to be rewarded with lots of money just for being willing to steal from others.

And to MattLFC...


Didn't Hitler have the same view?

Wrong; don't be so arrogant. As Bandy pointed out, some folk are not as alert as they used to be. You'd just better hope that you don't lose your faculties in your old age.

Which bit of it did you think was wrong?

The whole premise.

Weird, I didn't know an opinion could be wrong.

You are, of course, entitled to you opinion. It was Hitler's opinion that the Jewish race should be exterminated. I was, however, referring not to your opinion but to the premise of the final sentence.

Not entirely sure what you're point is with regards that??

Darwin thought of part of it first; also Hitler held the view that smoking was bad thanks to Nazi research into the health effects of it (long before any of the Allied countries had a clue), does that make it somehow any less true?

Chris, is it not fair to say that the perpetrators of this crime (and let's not forget, it is a crime, and anyone doing it, should be punished to the full extent of the law), are praying on somebodies stupidity, greed and ignorance?

Now there are undoubtedly some victims who are vulnerable (mental issues, elderly who maybe less aware of what's going on etc), and I know I'm not, and I doubt ex0 is saying these people deserve it.

But there are plenty of people who lead normal lives, supposedly have the intelligence to hold down jobs and savvy enough to make good use of the internet etc, generally "normal" (if you can use that word) people who get stung for it. These people are surely only being taken for a ride due to greed and possibly ignorance.

The fact is, people still fall for these scams, even though they have been happening for 15 years now, and are regularly highlighted on the internet, forums, television, library posters, newspapers, radio etc... most people have heard about them, but still choose to go ahead and send their bank and credit card details to Mr. Mbeki in Nigeria.

As a judge would say, ignorance is no excuse.

At the root of most of these scams, is greed (on both parts). If you are greedy enough (and stupid enough) to get scammed, to think somebody will give you £1million for doing sod-all, and having no actual reason to do so, via a dodgy email from an anonymous or unknown source, then you deserve to be scammed, just as much as the scammers deserve to be locked up.

My point is that the "survival of the fittest" attitude has no place in any civilized society. Otherwise we'd be euthanising the disabled, the elderly and mentally ill, etc. Like Hitler did.

What we endeavour to do instead is help them, protect them and support them. And it's absolutely right that we do so.

Your comments, (and ex0's,) seem to condone, and even endorse, these scams, and it bothers me that the victims of this type of crime are viewed with more contempt than the criminals are!

It shouldn't matter if they ARE greedy or lazy... the scammers are always a whole lot greedier and lazier!

I love the fact that as well as "survival of the fittest" having no place, it seems there is no place for common sense in the modern world.


Nobody for one minute has suggested euthanising vulnerable people, or even moving towards eugenics etc... And I pass no blame onto those who are vulnerable and fall victim to these scams. And my personal opinion is there is a place for survival of the fittest in this world, so long as all is fair and nobody loses a bollock.


That's news to me;


It appears you are bringing in irrelevant nonsense to suit your own agenda. Instead of trying to doctor the discussion, can you please read the previous posts properly first, instead of scanning over them and posting quick-fire reaction that makes no sense.

as this appears to be getting away from my original intention in highlighting a diffeernt type of scam becaues of the names and the immediate charitable reaction of the winners of sll this money mightnit not now be an idea to dfraw a line undder the topic..I dont want people falling out..the idea of the post in the firts place was to inform

This isn't a different type of scam.

It's a random anon email address sending you a badly worded and formatted email asking for your details. The contents of the message are irrelevant. It's the same scam that people have been falling for since the birth of the intertubes.

exO



why do you have to post aggressively...ok so I am not the best at explaining excatly what I mean but here is no reaspon to be beligerent

That wasn't me posting aggressively or belligerently. If I was you would know.

This is more resigned annoyance than anything else.

Don't worry about ex0 carbooter,he is just a nasty knob of a person who,for some reason,thinks he is better than anybody else.Just don't bother replying to him,as I won't when he spews his bile in reply to this post.You were trying to be helpful which is commendable.Well done you!

Totally agree here - also with Bandy and Snod. That exO is just too arrogant and rude for words. Keep doing what you're doing carbooter, you're a far better person than exO is.

ex0__ why can't you be more like your avatar?

Lol - Boosh

I didn't say anything about common sense. Personally, I can always find a place for it! But the more information there is about scams, the more commonplace common sense will be!


But yet you wrote the following;


And ex0 wrote;


Hence my "condone and even endorse," comment. Although I DID notice you later wrote;


And I fully agree with that.


It's neither irrelevent, nor nonsense. I have no "agenda"(?). I'm not trying to "doctor" anything(?). I did read all the posts properly and my posts make perfect sense.

Bottom line is; I don't like the idea that it's OK to kick people under the bus just because they're gullible. Some victims don't even REPORT the crime to the police because of how they're viewed for falling for it!

So let's not make it easier for the scumbags to get away with it, eh? Let's show some compassion, and save our contempt and criticism for the CRIMINALS!

I received an email last weekend purportedly from PAYPAL telling me that my details needed updating in order for my account to continue. I knew it was a phishing exercise because they hadn't addressed it to me personally. I immediately sent it to [email protected]> who within minutes confirmed that my suspicions were correct. So if you get anything like this, send it to that email address. They reckon it helps them to close these sites down.