What do you think, is it another scam?
By Ellie
@ellie26 (4139)
Malaysia
May 11, 2007 3:01pm CST
Over the pass few weeks, I have been receiving email lottery winning from various company. I have deleted all of them as I believe they are scam, a waste of time. But today I have received another email but it is totally different from the previous ones. I couldnt believe what I have read, so I copy and paste for all mylotters to read and hopefully shed some light here:
"Dear Beloved,
Here writes Lady Rita Mosley€™s wife of late Sir David Mosley,
suffering from cancerous ailment without a child. My late husband deposited
the sum of 20 million derived from his vast estates and investment in
capital market with his bank here in UK. Recently, my doctor told me
that I have limited days to live due to the cancerous problems I am
suffering from.
With this hard reality that has befallen my family, and me I have
decided to donate this fund to you and want you to help me use this gift
which comes from my husband’s effort to fund the upkeep of widows,
orphans, and needy financially. You can contact me through my personal email
address:
Rita Mosley."
What is your opinion, another scam?
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45 responses
@theproperator (2429)
• United States
11 May 07
I think I've actually recieved this exact email recently, too. "Rita Mosley" sounds very familar. I of course deleated it right away. People with no relatives don't just give their inherentance to strangers on the internet. They would give it to people they know or actual charties, not just type in a random email address.
Again, one of those things that is too good to be true.
Sorry.
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@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
11 May 07
yep, its a scam. Odds are they will tell you they are going to send you a check. Out of that chack, they will have you send a designated ammount back to you. the check of course is a fake that will not cash. You will then be stuck owing the ammount of the check to tha bank.Don't do it. It is definately a scam.
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@saving_diva (77)
• United States
11 May 07
I get at least 5 a day. All similar, the same story someones dying, or I won the Norwegen lottery. Which I never entered!!
You've heard the saying, "If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is!"
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
11 May 07
This kind of Nigerian scam is starting to become more prolific...I got one of these about a man’s family taking his money that was to go to charity. I don’t remember where it came from Though. These people and their scams are getting more creative.
@deargoodbye (761)
• United States
11 May 07
Of course it's a scam. Do you really think some random person would leave you that much money?
@worldwise1 (14885)
• United States
11 May 07
Personally, I consider all such e-mails to be a scam. Call it being cautious, but I have been scammed before (not by e-mail). I figure if someone really wants to give me money they will go to the trouble to find out my snail mail address and send me something that looks official. Neither do I trust the phone scams since I got burned. Just my opinion.
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@hiryan (75)
• Indonesia
11 May 07
I had received like you did. I had several contacts and at the end they asked me to transfers my money first to pay the bills that would occur. If you want to ty their honesty, just contact them. But ofcourse it will take your time. may the force be with you!!
@gdr_000 (116)
• India
12 May 07
hi ellie,i am also receiving different types of e mails like you but for one lottery scam i responded and they gave me a shipping company details and hedemanded me $700 dollars to receive my $1200000 and TOYOTA car.then i go to the original shipping company web site i enquired on that site. on that site they place alert notice that some of the lottery scams are using their company name to money payment then i stop responded to that type of offers but i also received e mail what u received from Rita Mosley and she said sams what you
wrote in your message. So dont respond to that types of messages bye
@oldboy46 (2129)
• Australia
12 May 07
Of course it is a scam .. and I bet the email address is (blah)@yahoo.com.uk because that is what most of them are. They send these out hoping that someone will pick up on it, then they will want all your personal details including your bank account of course. If they send you a cheque, it will not be any good and will in fact be a fraud. By the time people discover this they have sent the money off, as agreed, to some unknown bank account and are then out of pocket for a lot of money.
The other thing it could be is that they are using you to launder money that they have scammed from other people over the internet .. this is fraud and you will be the one who suffers from it. I cannot remember the exact details but I did see on another site some information about how and where you can report these types of scams. There they had the information on the email address you report these people to. If you checked you will find that there is nobody known as Lady Rita Mosley and she never had a husband called Sir David Mosley.
Either contact me for the details of where you can find the email address to report this person who sent you the email, or hit the delete button. I have been reporting all of these now .. that seems to be the only say that they can be stopped .. perhaps if one of them is caught and prosecuted some others might get the message.
@cheenlly (3476)
• Philippines
12 May 07
Definitely it is a scam.Nowadays, why would someone give such big amount of money by just like that. If she would really like to help then why not directly give it to poor, charity and needy people and why such people like to fool others just to earn money. HOpe she will not have that cancerous problem as punishment of her lie. Oh dear dont be fooled by such scammer. Godbless!
@retardedrugrat (4791)
• Canada
12 May 07
This is just another scam. I used to get loads of these at one time and deleted every single one of them.
I do believe it's a money laundering operation which basically means, if you accepted the offer, and did what they ask of you, if you get caught, you're in big big trouble and going to prison.
The best thing you can do is mark the email as Spam. Any others then that come from the same person, will automatically be sent to your spam folder to be deleted along with everything else in there.
@AnoChaudhary (1719)
• India
12 May 07
Its a SCAM and do you want to know what exactly happens if you reply to them? I tried and i will tell you what happens the moment you reply to them (in fact it doesnot matter what you reply b'cos i said GO JUMP in my reply!) the next mail will ask you for details like name, address, age, BUT NO BANK DETAILS (Very clever) once you reply to that here again it doesnot matter you can fill any kind of crap! they send another reply that they created a temp account for you and they need a AFFIDAVITE and now begings the fun....you can get a affivdate only from their country so they will happily refer you to an ATTORNEY and he will ask you for 450 UK pounds or they will ask you for courier charges which is again 450 Pounds! LOL my friends and i actually wwent through the whole process till they asked the money for courier and affidavite thats when we told PLEASE KEEP THE MONEY !
@ellie26 (4139)
• Malaysia
13 May 07
Yes, I went through what you have been through. The only different was that I asked the scammer to call me which she did. The funny thing was not only I have won the lottery for fifteen million euro, I also won a laptop! How lucky can I be! They didnt manage to get my money.
@hiryan (75)
• Indonesia
13 May 07
That's right. I actually wanted to know how they work so I replied them. We usually received those scam emails from abroad so we would not available to received the money by ourselves because we have to process many thing such as visa and passport (if we don't have one).
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@makingpots (11915)
• United States
12 May 07
Yes, looks like a scam. Be very careful.
It you play lottery online and wonder if you might have won from one of those sites, just remember that the reputable companies will have excellent websites on which to log in and see a list of winners. And then a very organized and secure system for collecting the winnings.
If the email came to you unsolicitated then it is almost always going to be a scam. Never give them any information, not even your phone number.
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@vickyrocks17 (249)
• India
12 May 07
well surely these are scams. i had recieved a mail from a lottery organization stating that i had won a lottery of 250000$. i couldn't belive my eyes.
theyasked me to send my personal info. although i sent some of my details, i also checked the net about that organization. i found out that this was scam foundation based in nigeria which robs people of money. they will take you bank acoount details and also call you to nigeria to recieve the payment. once their they rob you of your money and kill you.
as expected they contacted me again asking me details of my bank account and also asked me to come to some place. i didn't contact them after that.
the present email of yours also looks like a scam to me as nobody is so generous to leave such a huge amount of money for the general public to use. if somebody has it. they would think of giving it to charity rather that distributing amongst the people. so i would suggest you to keep away from them.
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@varunoberoi (266)
• India
12 May 07
definitely another scam.... why wouldn't she give the property to a friend or a relaitve.... she has to know someone.... the widow mail is just another scam... believe me...
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
11 May 07
It's a scam. Why would anyone use a perfect stranger, and if you were related or had done a kind deed, wouldn't her solicitor notify you using formal mail instead of email?
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@mssnow (9484)
• United States
12 May 07
I would say yes, its just a new form of the one where they send you a letter saying that they need your help to take over an estate of someone. What they would ask you to do is to deposit money or send them a cashiers check to them to show that you are of good faith. They take your money and you are out. Dont fall for it.
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@PsychoDude (2013)
• Netherlands
12 May 07
They're all scams ;), it is fun to go in on it sometimes, mail them back, keep them on a leash for a while :P.
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@morefashion (54)
• China
12 May 07
I also receive scam emails,i deleted all of them except special
ones. After i readed these special emails carefully,I found that
it give me a opportunity to earn money at home,so i signed up
and became a member.
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@saving_diva (77)
• United States
11 May 07
Oh yes!!! I can spot them now without even opening my email.
Why would a total stranger pick you? If it don't make sense, its most likely a scam.