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Or at least that's what the emails say (Doh!). If I have to believe those e-mails I won about 37 times $1,000,000 that makes me propably one of the richest persons in Belgium!Government Accredited Licensed lottery promoters.International Promotions/Prize Award DepartmentThis Lottery is approved by the Netherlands Gaming Board and also Licensedby the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAG international emails. held on the 29th November, 2006.all winnings must beclaim not later...
Microsoft released a very interesting tool that makes it possible to report junk mail (SPAM) to Microsoft and partners for analysis. It works on Windows XP and Windows Vista and Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 are both supported. At the moment I use SpamX, SpamCop and the reporting tool built-in the TrendMicro PC-Cilin Internet Security Suite but I was looking for a easy-to-use reporting tool for Windows Vista and Outlook 2007 so I am very pleased with this release! Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/do...
Today I have read in the newspaper that there is a new email scam floating around the internet. Apparently somebody pretends to be an American soldier that has some nukes and $25,000,000 in cash and needs to hide them. If you help him you can get 20% of the profits.These kinds of scam are called 419 scam/fraud or the Nigerian Scam. Because it is called the Nigerian scam this does not necessarely mean that those responsable for the scam are really Nigerians. It is called Nigerian scam because of the...