You have to admit, criminals can indeed be creative--at least when inventing ways to relieve you of your money.
Here the age-old ploy of dangling free money in front of you is employed. Unfortunately, this is not immediately suspect in the eyes of the average Lotto player. No, it fits right in with the "give me something for nothing" American mindset.
Be warned, though, any time someone is giving you something for "free" or because you supposedly won it but don't remember playing the game in the first place, all four alarms should immediately start ringing in your head and probably is for those of us who have long since recognized TINSTAAFL.
Click onward to see the latest and, I must say, convincing fraud attempt from "PayPal".
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PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY Congratulations! You have received this Notice because the
records of PayPal, Inc. indicate you are a current or former PayPal account
holder who has been deemed eligible to receive a payment from the Confirm Your Bank Account.
Don't forget to check your bank account for the PayPal deposits and get Verified! If you are seeking an alternate method of receiving your funds
PayPal will be contacting those who do not submit their details by the 31th of
March with instructions to receive a cheque in the mail. However this will incur
a 7.5% processing fee deducted from the settlement amount and therefore PayPal
only recommends this option to those users who do not currently have a bank
account with linked Bank Card. Thank you for using PayPal!
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The aforementioned settlement funds may be transferred
directly to your bank account providing you have a linked card. The funds may
not be credited directly to your PayPal account as this would render Paypal to
be accumulating interest and thus profiting on litigation settlement funds which
contravenes Federal law. Your bank account will be credited within 7 days upon
submission of account details.
To credit your bank account please