Fraudulant emails
By Laurelle11
@Laurelle11 (409)
Australia
July 18, 2010 8:26pm CST
Now I know there are people out there in MyLot that are sick of hearing about scam sites but what I would like to know is how do you tell you are being scammed when you receive an email from a legitimate company. I have been receiving emails from Microsoft and Tnt courier services claiming that I have won money in some European Lottery. Now I do play European Lotto but I didn't get suspicious of this being a scam until they told me in an email that I had to pay a few hundred dollars to get my winning cheque. So my question is how do you check whether or not an email is really from a reputable company or not? I did check the ptc-investigation site but I didn't find a listing with these company names and I didn't really expect to see Microsoft listed as a scam, so if anyone else has had a similar experience with fraud emails I would like to know how you dealt with it?
2 responses
@TexLadyPj (1328)
• United States
19 Jul 10
Herro Laurelle11
PLEASE run as fast as you can. Microsoft does not mail individual people. This a very common scam.
TNT Courier, Run faster. The European lotto is one of the oldest scams. How do I know?
I am not from the school of hard knocks, I have not fallen for this scam. When ever someone asks for personal information, name, age, address, phone number, etc. It is normally a scam. Any legitimate company that wants this info will send you a letter. Information like this is not passed over the internet unless you are signing for a program. Then make sure the URL says "https". See the "s" after the http? Never give personal info unless you are at a https site.
Yes, you were wise to pick up asking for a "processing fee" is a scam.
If you have any questions like this, please ask us here. We have lots of people with lots of experience and will give you suggestions.
Prosperous mylotting
@Laurelle11 (409)
• Australia
19 Jul 10
Thank you for confirming what I thought. I admit they had me going for a while thinking that I had won but I was still skeptical as the number they said won was different from the numbers that I actually have and I don't think I entered any competitions with Microsoft. Thank you again for your help. They wanted $650 to deliver me a cheque. A**holes.
@o0jopak0o (6394)
• Philippines
19 Jul 10
its spoofing i think. Sometimes they add it to their letters to look legit.
