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Old 11-10-2012, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Baddad View Post
All I have to do is send them my details, phone number, bank account, address..... Hmmmmm. Why do they want my name? Why my phone number? I thought they must have all that.

Damn.... I'm not rich. no new toys.

There doesn't appear to be much protection against scammers on any kind of media. Phone, email, Paypal. They get a lot of potential victims from forum sites.
If in every 100,000 emails or SMS they send one person responds they are deliriously happy. The ones who don't recognise the stupidity of asking for your info when they are saying you've won, plus the spelling and grammar errors, are the most likely to be the ones who will send the details they need to get ripped off.
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