There are no Free Lunches in this World

Yes, that’s true. Recently I received an email in my yahoo mail box that I have won a prize of 1Million USD. The mail looked so authentic and letimete that I was almost trapped in this. Here is the content of the email..

Dear Sir/Madam,

Lotteria Italia is happy to inform you that today is your lucky day! Lotteria Italia is required to disburse the award of $1.000.000.00 (One Million United States Dollars) to the correct recipient, but we must verify that you are the owner of the selected email address before we can send this money to you. This cash prize must be claimed not later than the 30th of May 2007 . After this date all unclaimed prizes will be declared void. Claimants must be over 20 years of age. All claims must abide by the claim rules stated in our official page. Click here to view rules: http://italiatermslink.biz.ly/ or paste it in your browser. You must read the rules and understand them before responding.

Contact us with your Claim Refence Number: XXXXXXXXXXXX in conjunction with your email address is yours and yours alone, and has not been issued to any other person. Quote it when replying. You must act before the deadline date stated above or your claim will be void. You have received this message from Lotteria Italia prize disbursement department because you have visited one of our sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors.

There is no cost to submit your claim, and no further obligation on your part to Lotteria Italia.

Contact person: Enrico Mancini
nricoma01@yahoo.it

Lotteria Italia
Venezia.


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At the first glance, this mail looks very legitimate. The amount is too good to be greedy. I asked several people over the internet about what to do for this. Thankfully everyone responded that it’s a SCAM and I should not give them my information. I did some search over the internet about “ Lotteria Italia”, and I found that the company “Lotteria Italia” is a true lotto company based in Itali but the sell ticket and give prizes based on that. They don’t pick a winner based on their email address. This was the bottom line I wanted to know. There were times when I was almost willing to share my information to them to get the money. Therefore, I want to let everyone know that there are no free lunches in this world. Just delete such emails and never ever care to give your valuable time on such email.