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.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Final Notification.

From: British Plus <gary_philip8@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: 14-Mar-2006 17:06
Subject: Final Notification.
To: "ideceive@gmail.com" <ideceive@gmail.com>

FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
BRITISH LOTTO PLUS.

Dear ideceive@gmail.com,
BRITISH LOTTO PLUS, wishes to inform you of the results of its
Promotional draws held on the 7TH of January 2006 as part of our new
year bonanza. We are happy to officially inform you that you have
emerged a winner under our Third Category Draws, with email address:
ideceive@gmail.com

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
50,000 names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa,
America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand
as part of our International Promotional Program.

You have consequently been awarded a lump sum pay out of £2,200,000.00
(Two Million Two Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) in cash, which
is the winning payout for Third Category winners. This is from the
total prize money of £11,000,000.00 shared between 5 international
winners in the category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with ALPHA BETA FINANCE, insured in your
name. In your best interest and also to avoid 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 transfering
your claims has been completed. This is part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/non
participants of this program.

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning Numbers: 09, 12, 22, 39, 40, 49, (05)
(ii) Ticket Number: 44-8201-093
(iii) File Reference Number: BLP20-147-1
(iv) Lotto Batch Number: A14736

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice, please contact your claims agent immediately.
Find below all contact details;

MR. WALTER SMITH,
FOREIGN SECTION MANAGER,
ALPHA BETA FINANCE.
PHONE: +44-70-4012-4052
FAX: +44-20-7504-8763
Email: wsmith@albetafin-uk.com

Remember, you must contact your claims agent not later than two weeks
from the date you received this email. After this date, all funds will
be returned back as unclaimed. For easy reference and identification,
your lotto payment order details stated above must be provided to your
claims agent.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
GARY PHILIP,
LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
BRITISH LOTTO PLUS.
8 CHANCEL ST.
LONDON, SE1 0UX
Phone: +44-70-4012-4049
Fax: +44-20-8181-7964

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification. Please do not reply to this email. Contact
your claims agent Mr. Walter Smith as specified above. (TERMS AND
CONDITIONS APPLY)

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