Foreign Lottery Scam

If you get an email about winning an overseas lottery - discard it! It is certainly a fake, and requires you to wire or send money in order to "release" the funds to you. You can bet you'll never see your money, or the lottery money. Also, don't bother funding agencies with a request to either lend you the "release funds" or get an advance on the amount you were told you would win. They won't take it seriously,
and won't take on a case out of the U.S. in most cases. If you truly feel it is real, have your lawyer look it over and check up on it. And think - when did you ever enter into such a drawing?

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