My notification came by standard post and the documents look genuine. Doesn that make it real?
Lottery scam letters are sent by email, regular post, Federal Express, DHL, UPS, etc. All available deliveries methods are used. In the US, the letters – along with the envelope they came in, regardless of the delivery method – are to be taken to the nearest Post Office, ATTN: US Postal Inspector. Any fraud delivered within the contiguous United States of America using any official delivery system comes under the offices of the US Postal Inspector General’s Fraud Investigation Unit. As for the documents looking oh-so-real, they’re not. Using a computer graphics program, a person can create any kind of document whatsoever. Please remember that unless you can DIRECTLY contact the registered lottery company itself, not some agent, not some fellow on a cell phone, not some person in a country where the lottery is not registered with the gaming board, watch out! Lastly, always remember – it’s not who wrote the letter that makes it a scam, it’s what the letter SAYS that makes it a scam.
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