New email scam?

**Redshft** · Apr 15th, 2008, 03:04 PM

I got this email today, it's new to me. Most scams and spams make it to my junk email folder, somehow this one got to my personal folder. I don't remember playing a lotto while I was in Europe. Even then, I never made it to Belgium.

Confirmation of Lucky No, 6-25-30-45-50-5/7
you have won 1,000,000.00. € Euros in De Euro millions Email Sweepstake Program Corporation, held on the 11th of April. 2008. in Belgium. We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately. for the claim

Contact person, MR. Jenkins Kales
TEL:+32-485-496.738 or +1132-485-496.738
E-mail:eromillionagency@aim.com

Winning Information's
Reference NoBE103/85428
Serial No HW101/98541
Lucky No 6-25-30-45-50-5/7
Batch No WX23/52641
Email Ticket No ESP400-369
Note: all winning must be claim not later than 16th of May 2008.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Wendy Bauer
Promotions Coordinator
E-mail:eromillionagency@aim.com
TEL:+32-485-496.738 or +1132-485-496.738

**bflbob** · Apr 15th, 2008, 03:15 PM

http://www.free-press-release.com/ne...182895433.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=De+Eu...e=utf8&oe=utf8

**RichKid** · Apr 15th, 2008, 03:16 PM

These emails shouldn't even be called scams anymore... just stupidities.

People need to make honest livings properly or else

**MJDeMarco** · Apr 15th, 2008, 03:16 PM

Not new, about as old as the Bill Gates and the Intel joint venture to conduct an email beta test and you will receive $1 per forwarded email. Believe me, my friend is a lawyer and he said it is legit!!

**Redshft** · Apr 15th, 2008, 03:24 PM

I figured it was BS, I usually don't get scam emails though. I got my first one a couple of months ago about helping a widow or whoever that inherited hundreds of millions and they will give me 10 million for helping transferring the money. I knew what was up with that as soon as I read it.

**Redshft** · Apr 15th, 2008, 03:39 PM

So are they going to ask for money if I called the phone numbers? Or try to get my personal info?

**kurtyordy** · Apr 15th, 2008, 04:05 PM

they ask for money. something like a prize activation fee i think they call it.

**Merkin Man** · Apr 15th, 2008, 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by RichKid

These emails shouldn't even be called scams anymore... just stupidities.

The sad thing is, I have seen a lot of people fall for this crap.

Without completely giving away what I do for a living, let's just say I work along the U.S/Canadian border.

There is a scam similar to this where somebody is contacted about money being held at a border crossing. The victim has no idea who sent them the money, but through persuasion, the scammer sells them a story to make it seem legit. All the victim has to do is pay some ridiculous amount of money on duties, come in person to the border crossing office and claim what is theirs. By the way, that "duty" usually runs in the $10,000 and up range.

I can't tell you the amount of people in the course of the past few years who have shown up totally expecting to have wads of cash waiting for them, only to discover they've been had. In fact, often times, they don't believe US when we tell them what has happened. Especially when they see a person whose name they have already heard from the scammer.

These scammers are good...They'll call the border crossing office the money is supposed to be at, ask some stupid question, then ask who they're talking to. Imagine the victim's surprise when they see Officer Merkin Man (their direct point of contact for retrieving the "package") standing in front of them when he breaks the news to them that it was all a scam!!! It doesn't go well.

Sadly, in the end, I think the scammers get by on the human nature of greed - not just their own, but the willing participant on the other end of the line. $10,000 in duties for $350,000 in unknown money? I'm still amazed at how seemingly intelligent a lot of these victims come across as being yet how gullible they are when it comes to this type of scam.