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paulnotbilly

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My sis-in-law received an email last year, from somebody in Nigeria wanting to get some money out of the country. If you receive the same, I'd suggest reading here:

http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/

http://www(dot)snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeria.asp (there's a 2000 version of the letter on this site)

http://en(dot)wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_scam

It's the usual story when it comes to something which, "sounds too good to be true" - It probably is.
 
this is a very old scam, several years atleast. I used to get so many emails about this.

The new one is email about email lottery. Comes in the name of Yahoo or some reputed company. It will say that computer has picked your email i.d. among millions of emails that you are eligible to get a few million dollars.

I received several of these. A friend of mine nearly fell for it. He replied back and soon he got a telephone call from Belgium. This guy said there is a service charge to be paid before he can collect his money !!!! My friend decided to stop things right there.

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The question is: how could you win a loterry when you didn't bought the ticket? And why would you need to pay a service charge, when they can tax it from the prize. That should be enough stop you from falling into the trap.
These scams can also be found on ebay where the scam buyer would be ready to pay huge amount of money for a cheap product you sell there and then asked you to send money to them first. Lots of people fell victim to this.
 
Sometimes it is helpful to check the IP of suspicious emails with a service such as this:
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/iplocation.asp

I've used it a few times to check up on buyers when I was selling off some auto parts, those nigerian scammers (claimed he was from Indiana) are rather persistent.
 
1. If you didn't bought the ticket, there is no way you can win it.
2. Most of these scams claimed that you have to pay the tax in advance. Most lotteries are tax free. And when taxed, it will be taxed from the prize money.
3. The administration/handling fee is paid in advance when you buy your tickets from the internet. This is done when you are trying to buy overseas lottery ticket and you are not able to physically buy the ticket.
4. There are plenty email based lotteries. But they are free of charge (probably scam, but at least they don't cost any cent)
 
Rhansen said:
Sometimes it is helpful to check the IP of suspicious emails with a service such as this:
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/iplocation.asp

I've used it a few times to check up on buyers when I was selling off some auto parts, those nigerian scammers (claimed he was from Indiana) are rather persistent.
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How do you get the IP address off an email to enter in the checker?
 
Mike said:
How do you get the IP address off an email to enter in the checker?
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If you are using Outlook, go to View -> Option -> Internet headers. There are a bunch of IP addresses there. You can usually trace the IP of the sender from there.
 
Thanks hoangmphung,

That pushed me in the right direction.:)

I was trying to find an IP off of a hotmail email.

Found this link _http://aruljohn.com/info/howtofindipaddress/#ipdetect that gives step by step info on how to do it for Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo.
 
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