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.

Saturday, May 20, 2006

YOU HAVE WON £750,000

From: UK LOTTERY HEADQUATERS. <ukonline_lottery1@sanook.com>
Date: 20-May-2006 18:57
Subject: YOU HAVE WON £750,000
To: undisclosed-recipients

UK LOTTERY ONLINE NOTIFICATION DESK.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!
BRITISH ONLINE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X).

UK Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
Ref: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#471) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on April 31st,
2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 05 21 23 28 40 48 26(bonus
no.), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category
i.ematch 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £750,000
(seven hundred & Fifty Thousand Pounds sterling) in cash credited to
file KTU/9023118308/03.

This is from a total cash prize of £10,000,000 shared amongst the
first four (4) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from
over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are
listed online. This promotion takes place weekly until the end of the
year. (31/12/2006)

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon. (5647560054) In view of this, your £750,000 would be released
to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

please you are advised to contact the agent with your winning numbers,
this is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To claim your prize, please write to the fiduciary Agent Mr.Michael A.Wolyn

FIDUCIARY AGENT
OVER SEAS CLAIM UNIT
MR.MICHAEL A. WOLYN
TEL:+44-702-401-8758
TEL:+44-702-406-4543
TEL:+44-703-184-1033
EMAIL- uknationallottery_paymentcentre2@yahoo.co.uk

YOUR DETAILS

1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:

CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE MEMBERS AND STAFF OF UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. John Moore
Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Mr. John Moore

Online coordinator

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