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, June 26, 2006

AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION / YOU HAVE WON AN E-MAIL LOTTERY.

From: infolottprogram18@iol.pt <infolottprogram18@iol.pt>
Date: 27-Jun-2006 00:09
Subject: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION / YOU HAVE WON AN E-MAIL LOTTERY.

AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION / YOU HAVE WON AN E-MAIL LOTTERY.
OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION AND HOW YOU BECAME A WINNER.

(IDAHO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL)
Prize Remittance Division
Batch no: ID/7704/07/050.
Ref no: 3985459LP.
Serial no: DF44970DE.
Ticket no:0769675.
Lucky no:067-546-819-006.

This email confirms that you have received from the IDAHO LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL an official notification of your lotto winning in the
IDAHO LOTTO AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET GAME (I.A.S.T) which took
place on June 26th, 2006 at our lottery office complex in Amsterdam
Netherlands.

You have won an IDAHO LOTTO PRIZE OF €500.000.00 Five Hundred Thousand
euro only, a prize payout of your winning has been approved by the
IDAHOLOTTO GROUP. In accordance with the Europe Million lottery
ordinance, you are authorized as the lotto prize winner to request
claims of your winning prize.

The IDAHO LOTTO AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET (I.A.S.T) GAME is an
online promotional program organized by the IDAHOLOTTO INTERNATIONAL.
This programmed is a given out offer to all customers of Idaho lottery
all over Asia, Africa, Europe and Midden East .

This promotional program takes place every four years. Total of
500,000 different email addresses are entered for the IDAHO LOTTO
AUTOMATIC SUBSCRIPTION TICKET GAME (I.A.S.T). All email addresses
entered for the game are submitted by our partner, international email
service providers/ marketing companies and public services providers.
Winners are randomly selected systematically through our Electronic
Random Selection System (ERSS).

Your email ID was included among the 500,000 email addresses and was
luckily selected among 1-5 batch winners.Always quote your batch and
refrence numbers in all your subsiquent mails to us.

Note that the IDAHO LOTTO INTERNATIONAL will remit prize payout to
only winners who officially file in for their prize claims. You are to
choose one out of the listed option by which you want your prize
remitted to you:

(1) By Bank Transfer to your BANK Account in your country of origin

(2) Traveling to our office PAY OUT Department in The Netherlands
Holland. for personal collection of winning prize.

You are required to file your claims by contacting the approved
fiducial agent for your claims on this email address below:

MR. ALBERT FOSTER.
Tel : + 31- 620-257-727.
Email:idaholottpromopt@netscape.net
Address: 611 KLEIBURG, 1104 AD.
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.

THIS EMAIL WAS SENT FROM THE DESK OF THE ORGANIZATION PRESIDENT IDAHO
LOTTO INTERNATIONAL, ON BEHALF OF I.A.S.T GAMES 2005.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR WINNING.

SINCERELY,

ROBERT A. V. BENARD .
GROUP PRESIDENT - I.L.G. I. P

==========================================================================================================

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify
the system manager.

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