Received both of these within the last 3 days - looks like a variation on the $6MM from Africa scam - based on the Tel #'s which are very close they both originated in the same place.

[file cleanup - saving space - ATTACHMENT DELETED by admin]The first is a basic lottery scam, those aren't new.
The second is a twist I haven't seen before.
But all in all these are both just variants of the basic Nigeria 419 scam.
I'm amazed people still fall for these, but they must still work since the scammers keep on sending them out. Greed is a powerful thing...If a scam has a 99.99999% failure rate and the scammer sends mail out to 100 million people, statistics would say that 100 people fall for it out of the 100 million. If he can get a thousand dollars off of each of them, he made off with quite a bit of cash.... I got one form a guy in Sierra Leone and he said he had 10 million for me if I brought him to America, but I also got a 2 million dollar fake check in the mail and It said it was just a receipt for the real one and that I had to call the number to get the real one........I did and they wanted me to order $50 of magazines.These scams aren't new and the only people that fall for them are either stupid or elderly which is sad.Quote

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