I have recently created myself an e-mail account on gmail. My very first e-mail received was from the gmail team to welcome me. To my surprise the second was an to notify me that i have was entered into a Japan and won $500 000,00. I then received a third e-mail from another International Lotto telling me that i won the latest Toyota and $500000-00. When i read this, two things went through my mind. One - wow, God must love me very much and two - is this for real? The question that stuck by me throughout reading this e-mail was, is this for real? I had alot of doubt but at the same time i felt overwhelmed because i never won anything in my life and on one day, i won
$1 000000-00 and a brand new car. I was so attracted by these offers that i read the e-mails several times. At first to me this was real because they gave contact details (including telephone numbers) and manager names which you can apparently use to contact them. They requested that i reply to claim your prize, so I humor them and do it. Then they request your bank details to transfer the fund into your account and a copy of your identity document or passport. I responded by requesting whether my identity number will be suffice because i don't have a copy on my computer to e-mail them and of course giving them all the information they requested, but not my bank account number. Then i never heard from them again. The last time i received an e-mail from them was 5 days ago. What made me doubt this lottery is that they use Yahoo as a service provider and they request your bank details without contacting you via telephone or post. Everything is done via e-mail. So, how did i accept that there is a bigger chance that this is not true? The line "ICBC Bank, Honk Kong China" caught my eye. I stopped and asked people around me to spell Hong Kong for me. Now i might have my blonde moments sometimes but i am 100% sure that a bank or an international lottery will never make a mistake by misspelling the country's name. Also, although i received a certificate with my name on to verify that the prize is mine and that i can actually print this certificate, I can also amend this certificate. I was surprised that this certificate wasn't in PDF format and that i never once received a letter from the bank on a letterhead. If i am correct with thinking that this is a scam, then i can use this certificate and start sending it around to any one and also start making money or something. I am afraid to even think of the chances that i am right about this being a scam and what happens to those who don't pick up these things and sends their banking details to this e-mail addresses. On the other hand, i could also be wrong. This could be genuine and i could be missing out a chance of a life time by passing up $1000000-00 by listening to my innerself and choose not to carry this through. Personally i don't think its worth taking the chance. And this brings me back to the question, is this for real?
Published: May 22, 2008
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