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.

Sunday, June 18, 2006

THIRD CATEGORY NOTIFICATION

From: FUNLOTTO UK <ukfunlottodraws2006@lycos.co.uk>
Date: Sun Jun 18 14:26:23 GMT+00:00 2006
Subject: THIRD CATEGORY NOTIFICATION
To: ukfunlottodraws2006@lycos.co.uk

UK FUN LOTTO
47 COLD HARBOUR
LONDON, E14 9NS
UNITED KINGDOM

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 3 lucky winners in the UK
FUN LOTTO draw held on 10th of June 2006. All 3 winning addresses were
randomly selected from a batch of 5,000,000 international emails. Your
email address emerged alongside 2 others as a 3rd category winner in
this month's draw.

Consequently,you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
£2,000,000 Pounds (Two million pounds) only.

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 5, 24, 38, 11, 46,37
(ii) Serial number: 16-7-204
(iii) Lotto batch number: FL-216
(iv) Reference number: SBF-404-2

Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for
the immediate release of your winnings:

Mr.Tony Smith
Claims Department Manager
BLUE SKY SECURITIES
Email: claimsmanager@blueskysecuritiesuk.net
Tel: +44 7040129746
Fax: +44 7030401609

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your
Winning information confidential until your claim have been processed.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some participant.

Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,

Mr.Gareth Edwards
Promotions Manager

Fax: +44 2079006421

N.B:
1.All claims are nullified after 10 working days from today.
2.Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.
3.Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.
4.All winners under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified.
5.Please contact your claims agent by fax or email (Mr Tony Smith).

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