The UK Lottery
Is Giving Me Thousands of Dollars!
by McMillan
(Oak Island, NC, USA)
I received an email from the so-called U.K lottery saying I had won something.
Well, you see, I had just returned from an awesome trip to Scotland in the U.K. when I received this email.
I am a gambler and play the lottery here in America so I began to wonder if I had actually played the lottery in Scotland.
I must have, I thought, if the very well known U.K. Lottery said I had won! I was, of course, a bit skeptical, but I was interested in confirming, if I had actually won 300,000 dollars!
I sent them all sorts of info including my phone number and waited to hear from them. Soon, I received an email saying that they needed more information including my bank account number so they could know where to transfer the funds.
On top of that, they asked me to send them a check for 350 dollars to cover some sort of taxes and other imaginary charges. Now I was absolutely certain I had been scammed.
I sent them an email saying that I would not give out that information on the internet.
What I should have said was I would never give out that information ever at any time because I started getting phone calls in the middle of the night from these criminals trying to convince anyone in the house to give away social security cards or bank account numbers on the promise of having won this now obviously fake prize.
Luckily, no one in my home did it and after a while they quit calling so often but I still hear from them once in a while.
Although I lost no money, if someone else like my slightly senile grandmother was living with me, she could very possibly have given one of these UK Lottery crooks the information they wanted and stolen from her instead.
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