Many email inboxes are being flooded with announcements that you have won a lottery. They usually that say something to the effect: your email address was picked at random, and has won a ton of money.

Well, that does not happen. Every last one of these emails is a scam. Period.

To be more exact, many of these are what is called an “advanced fee scam”. If you contact them, they will try to get enough personal information to steal you identity several times over, and secondly, you will be required to advance money in order to “process your winnings” or some such phony excuse.

One of the most certain things in life: You will never see that money again, and you will never get any winnings whatsoever. Period.

Unfortunately, thousands of gullible people fall for these scams ever year, and they loose millions of dollars. Don’t be one of them.

And please also ensure that none of your frends and relatives fall for this scam. Talk about it.

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Source: infopackets