Thursday, September 9, 2010

lottery scam?

i received this thing in the mail from ';Nova Financial Group';

it was a letter along with a check for $5000,

the letter says its a final winning notification

- it claims i am a ';lucky'; winner in the 1st and 2nd quarters of its lottery (its from germany, i'm in the U.S.)

i'm supposedly now entitled to the sum of U.S. $250,000

then the letter states my ';batch/serial number'; and a claim number..and a telephone number i should call for help to ';further process my claim';

obviously its some sort of scam.

well the questions are:

how does the scam work? has anyone heard of this sort of thing?

cause from the letter i cant really tell how the people running the

scam would make money

normally they ask you to send money ';to receive your prize';

thats not the case here, they just send a letter and a check

and theres no small print.

the name of the company is:

Nova Financial Group

Europe and North america

Wilheim Str.28

D - 60311 Frankfurt am main

Germany