I got a mail with a subject line that says:

Congratulations from MTN Nig. You have won N1 million.

Now, today is not the first time I would see such a mail.

The difference is that this particular one was very powerful.

It was sent from an email address that looked like a genuine one (customercare@mtnonline.com)

they even gave reference to the MTN website in the stupid email.

Here is the content of the mail:

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Congratulations!

You ve been selected as one of our lucky winners in the MTN e-charge Promo!

You have won N1million along with 500 other winners who have made purchases of MTN
recharge cards using their interswitch debit cards.

To claim your winnings,simply follow this instructions:

Visit http://www.reloadnigs.t35.com/ buy.html to purchase an MTN recharge card of N750

Select the recharge card value of N750, fill in the “sms delivery phone number” and
your coupon code number as “5468″

Select the payment platform as “interswitch debit card”, Click on “checkout” .

Once your payments has been received,your order would be sent via sms and we would
further inform you on how to claim your winnings at our offices nationwide.

Thank you once more for participating in our MTN e-charge promo. For more
information,visit: http://www.mtnonline.com/ products/echarge.aspx

Important Notice: It is most important that you fill your phone number and coupon
code along with your purchase,payments without the coupon code or owner’s phone
number would be disqualified from our promo!

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There is one thing about me anyway.

I can decode a lot of scams.

So, be careful online.

There are a lot of sharks there waiting
to swallow you up.

In the above SCAM email, you might think
that the only thing these guys want is to
dupe you of N750 but that is wrong.

They would empty your entire bank account.

How would they do that?

Well, you can ask the IT guys.

My advice is that don’t ever give out
details like your ATM no and password or
any other important things online.

Stay secured and if there is any thing
you want to confirm if it is a scam or
not, just send me an email.