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Some surefire signs of an e-mail scam. The sender is unknown to you. The email is not personalized—it just says “you .”. Winning money in a lottery you didn’t enter is a scam. The email is illiterate with grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. From: Euro Million Lottery Award
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Some surefire signs of an e-mail scam The sender is unknown to you. The email is not personalized—it just says “you.” Winning money in a lottery you didn’t enter is a scam. The email is illiterate with grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. From:Euro Million Lottery Award To:info@lotto.es Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 7:19 AM Subject: You Have WON THE Euro Million Lottery Award 2006. You Have WON THE Euro Million Lottery Award 2006. Pol.Lasao, Area Anardi 155, 28090 Madrid. Spain Branch. Ref. Nº: ESM/WIN/008/05/10/MA Batch. Nº: EULO/2907/444/908/06. Your ticket number (45407) with serial number 51622 drew the EUROMILLION Lucky numbers 3-18-40-40-76 Congratulation you have been fully approve to claim the lump sum of $950,000.00 (Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand dollars.Only) Y-in the satellite software email lottery conducted by EURO MILLIONS in which e-mail addresses are picked randomly by software powered by the Internet.You email address was amongst those chosen this quarter.Name, Contact Address, Tel & Fax Number, Mobile Tel Number and your winning ticket number, reference numbers and amount won information for processing of your winning fund to our registered claim agent in address below: National Agency Dr.Smith GonzalezAddress: Avda .Del Petroleo 222 Polig Madrid Spain.E-mail: clearificationunit_ukoffice@yahoo.esYours faithfully,Mrs.: Jolen Jones .EURO MILLION ONLINE LOTTERY DIRECTOR.Spain Branch. You are asked to provide your information. This is what the scam is after. The email address is bizarre: a “clearification unit”? At their “UK office” with a Spanish Yahoo account? Legitimate businesses have their own domain names.