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Scam ?

[Deleted User] · 2006-04-21 12:29:47

http://www.irishlotto.net/ Do you think this is a scam? Do you know anyone thats used it? My brother wants to find out as he's a big gambler hehe:rolleyes: he thinks it would be handy to just pay and recieve the results in e-mail. What do you think?

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21-04-2006 1:29pm

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http://www.irishlotto.net/

Do you think this is a scam?
Do you know anyone thats used it? My brother wants to find out as he's a big gambler hehe:rolleyes:
he thinks it would be handy to just pay and recieve the results in e-mail.
What do you think?

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#2 21-04-2006 1:36pm
Blowfish

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Well this site has it down as a 419 scam. Just search the page for it.

[edit]google 'irishlotto.net scam', you get a hell of a lot of links to sites saying it is.

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#3 21-04-2006 1:36pm
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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054903945&highlight=irishlotto

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#4 21-04-2006 1:44pm
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Lets see..

1. Site is part of a site providers not thier own box, and the signature is for that site not the company in question. appears to have been orginally hosted here..
http://users.d-n-a.net/dnetbOLo/

2. piss poor HTML skills.

3. No contact or legal information on the site. Or people who are running it.

4. Doing a Whois on the URL we get..

Irish Lottery Syndicates
47 Meadowvale
Sligo, Sligo 99999
IE

Address is bogus and already part of common scam.
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=5506

5. Personal contact details.

Patton, Steve
ils@DNET.CO.UK
21 Kestral Drive
Kevinsfort, Sligo,
IE
Phone: 071 50226
Fax: 071 50251

Looks like someones house address.

.. So in conclusion. Yes it is a scam. Should really report them to the cops.

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#5 21-04-2006 1:47pm
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But... but... that shamrock background is so.... COOL!
Very 1995 geocities....

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#6 21-04-2006 1:55pm
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Ditto with Hobbes, he's just quicker at posting than me.

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#7 21-04-2006 2:30pm
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From the bottom of their page:

Please note - There are an ever-growing number of Irish
lottery e-mail scams. Although these scammers have used
our name and address in their fraudulent e-mails we are
NOT involved in any way with any of these scams.
Please visit
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/internetfraud/lottery.htm
for more information.

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#8 21-04-2006 3:13pm
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Ha ha !!!
I called him and He just told me he send his suscription payment off last week using his credit card, aww i feel so sorry for him he said he gets emails now about the lotto results.
will i tell him to contact his bank or where exactly would ya contact for something like this, I havent a clue tbh

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#9 21-04-2006 3:52pm
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TmB wrote:

Very 1995 geocities....

was just about to say the same thing, coool

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#10 22-04-2006 5:50pm
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I supposedly won £5.5 million last month via email from the microsoft mega jackpot lottery in the UK. They are "sponsored" by microsoft, intel group, dell, mckintosh, to promote internet usage. Their email address was from yahoo and the UK address was fake. Have had a whole host of these emails: i've either won money or someone has died and they need help administering the money with my help. All emails are presented EXACTLY the same.

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#11 22-04-2006 6:50pm
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flutegirl wrote:

I supposedly won £5.5 million last month via email from the microsoft mega jackpot lottery in the UK. They are "sponsored" by microsoft, intel group, dell, mckintosh, to promote internet usage.

Promote internet usage? Lol.

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#12 25-04-2006 5:00pm
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whatever about being a scam, it's a bloody ripoff. €64 for 2 games in 8 draws when the real Lotto is only €24 for the same.

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#13 12-05-2006 9:24pm
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It turned out not to be a scam my brother got a refund when he requested it a couple of hours after placing his order

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#14 12-05-2006 9:30pm
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A friend of mine in the States got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago telling him he'd just won €2.5m in the Irish Lotto. For some strange reason he had to send his claim to Amsterdam.

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