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, June 10, 2006

NOTICE FOR CATEGORY:REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937

From: infolotto78 <infolotto78@terra.com.mx>
Date: 10-Jun-2006 09:11
Subject: NOTICE FOR CATEGORY:REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
To: undisclosed-recipients

CONGRATULATION WINNING NOTIFICATION:

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

FROM: UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual final draws of UNITED KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international
Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an
exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate
bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the
internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot,
your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category "A"
with the following winning information:

REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No: 2005MJL-01
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize
of £1,000,000 (One million pounds sterling) each from the total
payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and
will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory
obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To
begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category "A"
winners with the information below:

To file for your claim, please contact the processing agent;

MR. TERRY POKER
Phone:+44-7031862467
Phone: :+44-7024076258
Fax: 0044870 479 8734

Email: infouklotto77@o2.pl

Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained). Anybody under the age
of 17 and members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not
allowed to participate in this program. Please note; You are hereby
advice to send the asign fudiciray Agent details below for Processing
of your Claims;

(1.) FULL NAME
(2.) FULL ADDRESS
(3).NATIONALITY.
(4) DATE OF BIRTH
(5) OCCUPATION
(6 )WINNING EMAIL
(7 )TELEPHONE NUMBER
(8) DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION
(9) SEX
(10) TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(11) MARITAL STATUE

Reply to this confidential email account: infouklotto77@o2.pl

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Mariam Jacob
for UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.
NOTE: You are to contact your officer immediately with the official
EMAIL ADDRESS: infouklotto77@o2.pl

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