I just heard from a Welsh friend of mine in the UK that his mum got taken to the cleaners up in Flintshire in an Internet Lottery Scam. Here's a link to a Guardian story about the problem they're having with this sort of thing.

http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/st...016494,00.html

More and more elderly people are on-line these days, some of whom may not be as savy as they should be in regard to scammers (not that you have to be old to get burned by a con-artist, as I know from painful personal experience). My own mother just bought a computer (for email and such), and I've bent over backward to try to alert her of possible scams. Has anybody else had any bad experiences in this vein?

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