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Spanish lottery scam

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  • 11-06-2007 6:19pm
    #1
    fathersymes
    Registered Users Posts: 558 ✭✭✭


    Just a warning to all. I and a few people I know received a letter today from
    "Loterias y Apuestas del Esatado".

    This is an obvious scam, easy for me to spot but my mother got a bit excited to be told she had won 615,810euros!


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    #2
    unklerosco
    Registered Users Posts: 7,828 ✭✭✭unklerosco


    Got a few of em... read up about it on the net. Some american woman sent them over $15,000 and was wondering when she should expect to hear from them. Im half tempted to make someone up n send back the form for fun...


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    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    people's greed never ceases to amaze me, anyone who falls for these deserves what they get.

    It weeds out the stupid people in the gene pool imho


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    Sir Random
    Registered Users Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Sir Random


    My mom called to tell me she got one of these this morning. She wanted to call the gardaí about it.
    Coincidentally, the listed winning lotto numbers contained both our birthdays (5 & 13), which she usually uses when playing the lotto here and she recently spent a month in Alicante, but she still wasn't fooled by it.

    In this day and age, with all the warnings on TV about ID theft etc, I'm amazed that anyone could fall for a scam like this.


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    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    never underestimate how stupid some people are.


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    PeteK*
    Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭PeteK*


    We got them... in the end we got €4 ..... all €1 cheques lol.


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    heyjude
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭heyjude


    Colonel Sanders wrote:
    never underestimate how stupid some people are.

    Or greedy


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    The_Hustler
    Registered Users Posts: 1,191 ✭✭✭The_Hustler


    We got one of those this week too.


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    Newaglish
    Registered Users Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭Newaglish


    Cabaal wrote:
    people's greed never ceases to amaze me, anyone who falls for these deserves what they get.

    It weeds out the stupid people in the gene pool imho

    Yikes :eek: Do the lottery people murder you or something?


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