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Friday, February 12, 2010

Lottery Scams

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Hey congratulations, you have won in lucky draw and you will soon receive a cheque worth $600,000 U.S. Cash!

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Does it sound great? Yeah of course right?
How long do you need to work to earn cash worth $600,000 U.S. right? Some people make take the whole life to accumulate such amount and some people may take years to earn that.
And now just right in front of your eyes you don’t have to do anything or pay any effort in return to get something instead you will automatically get such big amount of money. I can frankly say that it is definitely a fraud. Remember that, there is no free lunch in this world everything needs us to work it out ourselves to get such good return. If we have such thinking in our mind we will definitely able to stay away from such scam.
Reference: Brett M.Christensen, Email Lottery Scams International Lottery Scam Information, [Online], Retrieved on 10 February 2010.
URL: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery-scams.html

However lately we found out that In Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore do have lots of scam working out towards the citizens. Nearly every day when we open the newspaper the news on scam is just so visible and everywhere around us. Why people always fall in such scam have you ever think of it before? Actually sometime we actually able to identify it as scam especially when we read the newspaper we might be thinking why such people can fall into such scam it is just so RIDICULOUS.
Reference: Consumers Fraud Reporting Lotteries, [Online] Retrieved on 10 February 2010.
URL: http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteries.php

Yet when that incident really hits on us we do get con again. Normally such scam can successfully con us because we are greedy for such return that we do not need to do or sacrifice anything to get it. That’s why the humanity greediness is actually the main major that makes us fall in such scam. So we shall always remind ourselves there are no such thing as what we call money drop from sky or free lunch. This could at least prevent being the victim and the scam operators are the WINNERS. How do the scam operators work? They are smart to catch the interest of what people as bait to trap the peoples and one of the examples is through the lottery scam.
Reference: Lottery Scams, [Online], Retrieved on 12 February 2010
URL: http://www.fraudaid.com/scamspam/lottery/index.htm

In Malaysia and Singapore it is legal for the citizens to buy lotteries. So many people will hope that they pay out such a small amount of money in order to hope that there will be a big return of money as this is the lottery objective that the people who in charge wants to fulfill. Of course they do earn a lot but buying lottery actually also gives many people a fresh hope that they will able to strike and this will at least help them to get a better life or fulfill some dreams. Especially when the economy is down even more and more people will wants to buy the lottery just get a chance to gamble their see whether they will have such good luck or not that they will get such amount of money to past through the bad economy. In this incident greediness takes place again!

So in all such incidents if the lottery that you need to use lesser money to but the prize to won is in high return will be the one that all the people will focus to buy on. Especially when they themselves have strong confident that they will going to hit it will be the one that will invest in a larger sum of money and at the same time if those scam operators call to persuade them to buy stakes foreign lotteries which for sure will get higher return if those lottery is from places like America, London or even Australia will be the best bait use to trap the peoples. As we know their currency is higher than us and for sure the return also will be much higher than that lottery we buy in our country here. This is why many people got con in the lottery scam. As this scam operators are very smart. They are able to speak very well with you through phone or explain carefully as if such thing really exists through sending email and websites to prove to you that there is actually such thing.

Nevertheless since the country are so far from us most of us won’t bother to check or take much notice about it because the money they spend might be a small amount and they thing such advance and rich country will not have such scam problem. This is what most people have in mind. This is why more and more victims got con in such lottery scam. Remember that, everything on websites can be created easily. Some may take few days, some may take few years. So remember we should only believe what we see in our own eyes and please do not invest on things that we are not reachable or contactable in our distance as these things involve money and money is one of the sinful thing that some of us cannot resist from it.

As the conclusion I would like to say is lottery scams is one of the most common types of email that we will always received in our email and some if the web can detect it might send to your junks to awake you that’s is actually a real JUNK. You will have to make decision to open it or not and to believe it or not. Thus I feel that each and every one of us must always be careful with all the things happening around us don’t take the news in the newspaper as just a story take it as a hint or advice that we will have to be more careful and caution with the incidents that almost the same hits on us. Especially those emails that tell you that you have won a large amount of money in an international lottery or some others that are more o less the same please do not be so innocent to believe it and get too happy over it as this will make us lost our mind very fast.

Those scam operators are very smart. They will not make you notice or awake from your dream as fast as they will take few times to contact with you and to persuade you into the trap that they had set earlier. Many of them will never run away from those common dialogues which will then or later on ask for personal details, identity of the bank accounts and those transferring fees transactions. So when u hears all this remembers to stay away and do not believe it. As you will regret later on if you trust and do what they say.
Reference: Paul Gill, The Top 10 Internet/Email Scams, [Online], Retrieved on 12 February 2010.
URL: http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/scamsandidentitytheft/ss/top10inetscams_3.htm

DO NOT TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED. EVERYTHING THAT WE GET NEEDS US TO WORK FOR IT. THERE IS NOTHING IN REALITY THAT WE DO NOT HAVE TO DO TO GET SUCH BIG AWARD. THEREFORE BEWARE THOSE SCAM OUT THERE.BE MORE CAUTION ESPECIALLY ADVICE TO THE OLDIES AND YOUNGSTERS.

*Chiw*

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