Lottery scam quick guide: it's a scam if...

  • you win any lottery where you didn't buy a ticket! It's really that easy! It's not just too good to be true: it's bait in a trap!
  • you receive a generous grant out of the blue. Sadly (but not surprisingly) there aren't any benevolent people regularly throwing around millions of pounds/dollars/euros to randomly chosen people. This is just the lottery scam without the ticket.
  • they send you partial payment in the form of a cheque, money order, or direct bank transfer and want you to pay them fees out of that money. They're playing you for a sucker: cheques are frequently forged, and direct transfers made by compromising some poor schmuck's online banking service. You'll wind up a victim of fraud, or a party to it.
  • they want you to send them any money of any sort for any reason. They might try to say there are courier fees or taxes to cover. They're lying. Call their bluff and tell them to take the fees out themselves -- they'll never ever agree, because they can't defraud you unless money is making the reverse trip from you to them somehow.

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

NETHERLANDS EMAIL PROMOTION AWARDS

 THE NETHERLANDS EMAIL PROMOTION
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD
DEPARTMENT

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "B" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as
we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category draws of
THE NETHERLANDS PROMOTION INT. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our
promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today 28th
of December 2005. Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East,
and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.

Your e-
mail address, attached to ticket number 50941465206-529, with serial
number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and consequently
won in the First Category.
You have therefore been awarded a lump sum
pay out of 1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout
for Category A winners.
This is from the total prize money from
2,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this category CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.
In your best interest
to aviod mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you
keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until
the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your
funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by
participants/nonparticipants of this program.
Please contact your
claims agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your
prize money to a designated account of your choice:

You are advised
to contact the agents by email.
Failure to do so may warrant
disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find
below your Reference and Batch numbers.
Remember to quote these
numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent.

REFERENCE
NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/06
BATCH NUMBER: 75/011/INL

To file for your
claim,please contact the fiduciary agent.
***********************************************
Mr.Stefan Van Djik,
Address:T. 220A 2060HT,AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.
Tel. office:+31-644-
749-864
FAX: + 31-84-710-3194
Email :trustinvestor@walla.com
***********************************************
Congratulations once
again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions
program.

Sincerely Yours,
MRS.MARISKA NOWAK.
THE PROMOTION
COORDINATOR,
WWW.DAYZERS .NL.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have found that these are very disturbing!! They take up senceless time and they are annoying!! I checked out the address of the sender at walla.com and it is a free based e-mail!!! I am glad that there are scam spam spots to look up these e-mails!!

Anonymous said...

I am from the Philippines and just recently I received a message like this through text from SHELL LOTTO. It says: YOU HAVE WON $1.5 MILLION USD FROM SHELL PETROLEUM LOTTERY DRAW REF NO: DNO8 CONTACT MR. ADRIAN JOHNSON FOR CLAIMS +1587700393 OR draws@post.com. I searched for the website but it does not exist. Surely, this is a SCAM!

Spotter said...

Yes, you can be quite sure that ALL lottery winnings notices you receive via email are scams.