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I have not been asked for money or a bank acount. Is it still a scam?

April 26, 2017acount Bank money scam

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I have not been asked for money or a bank acount. Is it still a scam?

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Probably. Fake lottery scams and other variants of “419” fraud follow a fixed script that works in stages. In most cases the victim is not asked for money immediately, so as not to alert the spam recipients, who might report the email addresses to the webmail providers and get them shut down.