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Yahoo! Lottery Makes People Rich Overnight

A couple of Yahoo! mail users have recently found themselves winners at the lottery contest, in which they haven't even participated. According to the Yahoo! Mail Blog, a number of users have reported receiving a mail from the "Yahoo! Awards Center" that claims they are winners of a £845,000 prize. The notificat...

9 May 2008
07:13 GMT

I Have Just Won 800,000 Pounds...

Yep, you've heard it correctly, I have just won 800,000 pounds at the UK lottery. You're probably curious why I'm so bored and what's the reason for not being excited about the amazing prize. Well, because it is only a stupid SPAM message that came into my inbox! I've seen too many of these i...

21 December 2007
15:06 GMT

Lotto Scammer Captured in Cyprus

Ali Mohamed Kdoud, an email scammer investigated by the Interpol, was finally arrested in an airport in Larnaca, a city on the east coast of Cyprus. According to Sophos, the man got no less than $10 million after it tricked people into disclosing their financial information. Usually, his attacks were based on email m...

7 December 2007
09:47 GMT

Googled Lottery Winner Husband to Lose Half

… and that's Google. If they don't have it, it probably didn't happen or it is too small to attract any attention.I'll give it to you from the end to the beginning, perhaps if I write it like that I'll be able to understand why it happened like this. American Airlines mechanic Arnim Ramdass d...

23 November 2007
09:17 GMT

Oldest Trick In The Book

I've recently read a piece of news on Sydney Morning Herald website. It said that the Queensland police are warning web users about a new e-mail scam that promises lottery winnings. I have no idea why they've dubbed this as "new" - this is the oldest trick in the book when it comes to spam-scam. I think I w...

2 October 2007
06:12 GMT

After Yahoo, Google Denies Lottery Prizes Too!

As I mentioned some time ago, numerous Yahoo registered users received some interesting (but FAKE) messages which were sustaining a recent Yahoo Lottery choosing them as winners. Obviously, the prizes were extremely attractive but because it was all a fake campaign started by some spammers, there was no prize. Yahoo ...

5 September 2007
08:29 GMT

Yahoo's Comment on the Lottery Contest: FAKE!

Some time ago, I wrote an article about a new spam campaign affecting the Yahoo accounts that informed the users about a special Yahoo Lottery involving some very attractive prizes. Obviously, it was only a fake message although some of the users might believe that they are very lucky because they won such big prizes...

31 August 2007
10:08 GMT

Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket

The week is about to end, so I'm here to review a new game. In the past week we didn't have so many good games, but still, there was something...Coming from the SpinTop Games laboratories, Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket is a "solve-the-case-game". The story revolves around a granny who lost her winning lo...

3 August 2007
08:42 GMT


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