The old ‘you won the lottery’ swindle, this time by text
Link: Gulf Times Newspaper - Qatar, Gulf and World News - Qatar.
INDIAN expatriate Ahmed was overjoyed when he received an SMS, stating his mobile phone number has won $9,500 (QR34,580) as prize in the “Yahoo! Annual Birthday Programmeâ€.
The only catch was he had to send 5% of the prize money as donation to a Nigerian charity to be eligible to claim the prize.
Ooooooh deary me…

