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Lottery Scam

  • 23-04-2014 8:08pm
    #1
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,337 ✭✭✭


    We have all seen the standard lottery scam several times before in Spam e-mails.
    I though received one today by post !
    Posted from Spain with as far as I can see a real €0.75 stamp on it.
    I would have thought the hit rate on these scams would never be high enough to re-coup the investment in stamps.

    Curious as to how they got my address too

    Anybody else ever get one of these before by snail mail ?


Comments

  • #2
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    All lotterys are scams. That's why only rich people are allowed to run them.


  • #3
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Got one for the Australian lotto years ago,the Irish lotto was offering as good prizes at the time.Don't think they've really thought the thing through.


  • #4
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    Bandana boy wrote: »
    We have all seen the standard lottery scam several times before in Spam e-mails.
    I though received one today by post !
    Posted from Spain with as far as I can see a real €0.75 stamp on it.
    I would have thought the hit rate on these scams would never be high enough to re-coup the investment in stamps.

    Curious as to how they got my address too

    Anybody else ever get one of these before by snail mail ?

    Yes. They are getting your name from the telephone directory, new additions.


  • #5
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,337 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    UCDVet wrote: »
    All lotterys are scams. That's why only rich people are allowed to run them.

    I would say a bad bet rather than a scam


  • #6
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,337 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    Yes. They are getting your name from the telephone directory, new additions.

    I am ex-directory


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  • #7
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,195 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    UCDVet wrote: »
    All lotterys are scams. That's why only rich people are allowed to run them.

    Correct. The National Lottery, a.k.a. "Lotto", was invented in 1938 by General Eoin O'Duffy as an ingenious way of taxing the dole.


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