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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 Programme”.
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…

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