(Headers for this one actually *are* from AOL) On Tuesday July 19 2005 1:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am tring to see if i was the winnier of the lottery please > contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, I'm afraid you weren't. You were the victim of a spammer[1] trying to dupe you into getting potentially royally screwed in what the FTC calls an International Lottery scam[2]. Even if it were a real lottery, you still violate federal law by purchasing foreign lottery tickets by phone or mail, and you'll be placed on ripoff marketer's sucker list (if you're not already by default for having an address ending in @aol.com[4]) for actually falling for it (expect more scams of a similar nature). For your own sake, please be more careful online. [1] http://ursine.ca/Spam [2] http://ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/intlalrt.pdf [3] http://bruce.pennypacker.org/spamrules.html [4] http://ursine.ca/AOL -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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