Showing posts with label Beware of scams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beware of scams. Show all posts

Thursday 27 February 2014

Scam alert

Would you look what I received in the post today!
 
All the way from Spain it's a letter to tell me that I have won over €800,000 in a Spanish Lottery that I never bought a ticket for!!
 

To collect my prize, I just need to complete this detailed form and fax it back.  Along with my bank details I also need to supply information such as my occupation, date of birth and also my mothers maiden name.  A lot of this information could certainly be used by the would be scammers in order to defraud me of money or property.
 
Obviously I know that this is a scam but I can see how people may fall for it. 

I put it up on my blog to spread the message that is a scam and hopefully it will prevent someone being scammed.

Remember you can't win a competition that you never entered!!!

I'm unsure where they got my postal address from and oddly they addressed the envelope to me but using my husbands surname which I never took.  Strange.....and this is about the third one of these letters.