I have a friend that isn't so internet savy. Let's just say that the techno revolution passed him by but he is online. He called over the weekend because he had won $2,000 in a lottery that he never entered and we wanted to know if you should send them his information.
Let's be square, every email that you get about lottery winnings and western union transfers are scams. Most being the old Nigerian Scam where they have money for you but you have to send them money so they can release the cheque. Total scam.
Here is a great way to avoid lottery scams. Get a free email address like yahoo and gmail and use that for every website that you have to use an email address to sign up for like blogs or forums or social networking sites. That way they don't have your real email address that can be associated with your real identity and you know everything going there is a scam.
I use a Yahoo email when signing up for things and here is a sample of the 200 emails that were sitting in there this morning. Everyone of them a scam or attempt at identity theft. Never give anybody any of your real information online. Nothing is for free.
The British Lottery Scam which is what my friend got in his email.
The Nigerian Scam
The Western Union Scam
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