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@au.phone.crazy wrote:
I still remember the day my brother confided in me and pulled me aside to share in his good fortune of a recent email he had received informing him he had won the european lottery unprovoked and a figure just short of 50 million euro.

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One of my foreign born colleagues came into work one day last year, grinning from ear to ear, telling everyone he had won a fortune in a lottery. He even showed us the message on his phone. He was planning all the things he could do with the money. He was also telling us how he was organising the $5,000 he needed to send them to get the money released from the UK. It took us nearly a week to convince him that he was being scammed, and even then I don't think he believed us.

In the end, one of my other colleagues snatched his phone from him and deleted the messages. I know that probably wasn't the best tactic, but being the kind, generous person he is, we didn't want him to be scammed. He was upset about the phone snatching because he wanted to donate half his 'winnings' to the kids hospital and accused us of taking money away from the kids who needed it.

Even when some of us printed things out to show him it was a scam, he still didn't believe us. It's sad that in this day and age, people still think it's legitimate.