Are These for Real?

Oh my! These announcements are 100% spurious. It really irritates me because I regularly received such an annoying email. I compiled some of the hundred supposed “good news”:

Unclaimed Millions

Supposed account managers often say that they discovered an abandoned sum of US dollars in millions belonging to one of their foreign customer who died in a plane crash. Said customer has no more relatives as his entire family died in the said accident. The bank wants me to act as the next of kin to get the said money.

Another bank will say that an account long unclaimed by their client who died in a motor accident in the amount of US$10,500,000.00 is just waiting for me. They will release upon receipt of my personal information.

Lottery Winner: Me?

My email address won the sum of 500,000.00 pounds, in the UK lottery draw. But they want me to give my personal details like name, address, etc….

I won the Google 2008 10th Year Anniversary Promotion in the amount of 1,000,000.00 pounds – they need my personal information like my name, address, etc.

I won the UK Lottery online sweepstakes yearly promotion. My winning ticket number was 56475600545188 with serial number 5368/02. I won the amount of 1,000,000 (One Million pounds sterling) in cash credited to file XYC /26500460037/08. This is from a cash prize of 1, 000,000 pounds.

(One Million pounds sterling). But, I will first give them my personal information.

Another woman wants me to pay the security keeping fee of 500 GBP pounds to be able to claim my confirmable bank draft worth 1,000,000.00 WORTH 1,000.00 British pounds they deposited in a certain bank. I will pay at FEDEX Courier Service, but first I have to give them my personal information like name, address, phone, etc…

As a Rule, Common Sense Dictates the Following

If these were real, I can help feed the million hungry people of the world. But it’s a fact that these are just shams. Why? Please read below.

1. A person should have joined a contest, a raffle, a lottery, a competition, a sweepstakes, a draw, all of these kinds, in order to win.
2. If a person did not join any of the above mentioned contests, how come he won? Common sense dictates
3. If somebody is good enough to leave you a fortune – a huge sum of money for whatever reasons, why the need to divulge personal information such as name, address, phone numbers, country of origin and the like?
4. Why ask for certain amount to defray expenses incurred to claim such winnings?
5. Lastly, did you know these persons? To find out, immediately report to concerned organization / agencies that cater to these charlatans

Be alert. Follow the above common sense dictations to shun falling prey to this kind of phonies.