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.

Monday, March 27, 2006

CHECK MONEY ON WON PROMOTION

From: msn.msnxhjl@virgilio.it <msn.msnxhjl@virgilio.it>
Date: 27-Mar-2006 22:00
Subject: CHECK MONEY ON WON PROMOTION

CHECK MONEY ON WON PROMOTION

FROM:THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Microsoft B.V.
Boeing
Avenue 33
6612 PE Schiphol-Rijk.
The Netherlands.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY
"A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the
results of the First Category draws of MICROSOFT 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 27th of March 2006. 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 QZ-316-NL, with serial number 8222-66 drew the lucky
numbers 9-17-5-73-8-11 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 1,500,000 shared among the two
winners in this category CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited
with the paying Bank.
In your best interest to avoid Disqualification
we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from
public notice until the process of transferring your fund 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 non
winners of this program.
Please contact your claims department
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/2031/8161/04
BATCH
NUMBER: 14/011/IPD

To file for your claim, please contact the below
approved agent.
***********************************************
Mr.
Sticker van Haren,
Address: Transvaalstraat. 220A 2060 HT, AMSTERDAM,
NETHERLANDS.
Tel:+31-202-220-012
Email :prudenttrustinv@netscape.net
***********************************************

Congratulations once
again from all our staff.

Sincerely Yours,
MRS.MARISKA NOWAK.
THE
PROMOTION COORDINATOR,
THE NETHERLANDS NL.

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