by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Sep 16, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Marjorie Shamgochian is an elderly widow who received a phone call telling her that she had won a multimillion dollar lottery in the United Kingdom that she had never entered. Regular readers of Scamicide know by now that you do not win lotteries that you do not...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 28, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Lottery scams are one of the most effective scams. Forgetting that it is hard enough to win a lottery that you have entered and impossible to win one that you have not entered, many people are victimized each year by phony lotteries. The basis for the scam is pretty...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 19, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Sweepstakes and lottery scams are always among the most prevalent and effective scams used to steal money from unwary victims. The essence of many of these phony lotteries is the same. You are notified that you have won a lottery that you never entered, but have to...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 12, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Lottery scams are one of the most effective scams and with good reason. Who wouldn’t want to win a lottery? One of the lottery scams presently being reported begins when you receive a letter from a company called Global Processing, Inc. although I should...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 18, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Like many of the scams I write about, today’s Scam of the Day comes from my own email. Today I received an email, a copy of which is reproduced below. In the email I am promised a gift of more than a million pounds being generously promised to me by a couple...
