You receive an email saying this:
The management of liverpool football club is glad to announce to the world the NEW YEAR PROMOTION, giving away of the sum of TWENTY MILLION UNITED KINGDOM POUNDS to 40 lucky email addresses all over the world. This promotion is in appreciation of our International Support in the European Champions League Finals In Turkey, and the correspondent capital profit in the stock market which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings. It is also to Mark the Club's new year and 100 years of cooperate existence. Please be informed that all winners in this program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 500, 000 companies and individual e-mail addresses database.
Your email address happened to be one of the lucky winner of five hundred thousand pounds (500.000.00 (G.B.P) among the Forty email addressess chosen. For all our international winners the value of the amount comes to ($917, 956.00 USD.
Then they go on to ask personal information. As soon as you e-mail them with your phone number or email, they will contact you and explain their little plan.
Here's how it goes. They are a lottery from overseas, and they do not advertise, but they do randomly draw your name! Hmm... lucky you. They go on to say that in order to transfer the funds into your bank account, they need you to pay insurance on the money in case anything happens when they send you a check. Right then and they, a siren should go off in your head, that this is a scam. As soon as you send them a check for the 1000 dollars to insure your winnings, they take the money and run. This is a complete scam, and there are many others like this one! Be careful! No one hands out free money!!!
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