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, April 10, 2006

Thornhill E-Games

From: Mrs. Gerda Hoffman <gh@yahoo.ca>
Date: 10-Apr-2006 08:26
Subject: Thornhill E-Games
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Thornhill E-games 2006,
Date: 7th April.2006
Ref Nr: SEP/CA/1226/PR
Dear Consolation Prize Winner,
CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNER NOTICE: Europe/America private international
E-games organizers and co-sponsors, THORNHILL LOTTO Group International,
Officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of the 6th of
April -2006 THORNHILL LOTTO -wheel E-game which was conducted at our
International corporate office complex in Canada. Most recently this
Foundation set up the NEW LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on
COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage
The use of Internet for academic and business pursuits.
It major aim is to promote music, theater, art, literature, projects in the
Social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research,
And higher education. We wish to congratulate and inform you on the
selection of your email coupon number which was selected
among the 45 lucky consolation
Prize winners. Your email ID identified with coupon No. PBL2348974321 and was
Selected by our E-games Random Selection System
(ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the
E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses
Submitted by our partner international email provider companies.
You have won a consolation cash prize of US $ 1,000.000.00 (One
Million United States Dollars)
The Century LOTTO Group has approved a payout of your consolation cash prize
Which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency Board?
Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide
Additional information and processes for the claims of your consultation prize.
For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the DPU
Information/file Officer: Mr. Gideon Lemans
Email: gideonlemans@yahoo.ca
Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your consolation prize
Winning, we hope you will partake in our forth-coming THORNHILL LOTTO -wheel
Email-games.
Regards,
Mrs. Gerda Hoffman
(Group Coordinator)
........................................................................
.................................................................
ATTENTION
Note: It has come to our attention that fraudulent emails are being
Sent out from the Netherlands and Africa by some group of people.
These emails are NOT from Thornhill -wheel Email-games or the Multi-State
Lottery Association.
These emails may claim that the recipient has won a
Prize in Thornhill - Email-games or Australian Thornhill Email-games,
The Netherlands Thornhill or some other non-existent international
Version of Thornhill Email games. These emails may include our name, our log and
Links to a copy of an old Thornhill web page as we are working seriously to
Ensure security on our web page. In accordance with the THORNHILL LOTTO-wheel
E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched
directly to only the 45 lucky consolations prize Winners.
This notification also contains information that is proprietary,
Privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from
disclosure. If
you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the
lucky numbers
Along with the winning information if you are not authorized to read, print,
Retain copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.

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REQUIRED DETAILS.
FIRST NAME..................... LAST NAME..............
CONTACT ADDRESS...................
TELEPHONENUMBE......................
FAXES NUMBER.......................
AGE...............
GENDER............... MARITAL STATUS.....................
NATIONALITY...............
OCCUPATION.......................REF NUMBER............................
NAME AND ADDRESS OF NEXT OF KIN...............................................
SEND THE COMPLETED FORM TO YOUR FILE OFFICER GIDEON LEMANS

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