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.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

WINNER'S INFORMATIONS!!!

From: m_thompson10@virgilio.it <m_thompson10@virgilio.it>
Date: 13-Jun-2006 01:34
Subject: WINNER'S INFORMATIONS!!!

WINNER'S INFORMATIONS!!!
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD
DEPARTMENT
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as
we
bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category draws of
THE
MICRO/DAYZERS PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our
promotional draws. The draws are being officially announced today 1st
of June, 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,Europe, Middle East,
and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.
Your e-
mail address, attached to ticket number 46939, with serial number 472-
9768 drew the lucky numbers W-91237-H°67/B4 and consequently won in
the First Category.

You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay
out
of 2,500,000 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros), which is
the
winning payout for Category A winners.This is from a total cash
prize
of 25,000,000.00
Million Euros shared amongst the first Ten
(10) lucky
winners in this category

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is
now
deposited with the paying Bank.In your best interest to aviod mix
up
of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the
entire
details of your award strictly from public notice until the
process of
transferring your
claims has been completed, and your
funds remitted
to your account.

This is part of our security protocol
to avoid double
claiming or
unscrupulous acts by
participants/nonparticipants of this
program.
Please contact your
claims agent immediately for due
processing and
remittance of your
prize money to a designated account
of your choice:
You are advised to
contact the agents by email.Failure
to do so may
warrant
disqualification.

NOTE: For easy reference and
identification,
find
below your Reference and Batch numbers.
Remember
to quote these
numbers in your correspondence with your claims agent.
REF Number:
NL/BC7765468/WW14
BATCH No: NM/896161/WOP.
To file for
your claim,
Please contact the fiduciary agent.
***********************************************
Mr. MARTYN NICOLAAS.
AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS.
TELEPHONE:+31 644 749 896
FAX: +31 847 197
552
Reply
Email: martynnicolaas@aim.com.
***********************************************
All winnings must be
notarized to complete the claim process; winners will be referred to a
Foreign Transfer Manager,to have their winnings notarized.Winners are
to cover the legal charges not DAYZERS.NL,also you have two weeks to
from the date of this publication to claim your prize or forefeit your
winnings.

In compliance with the sponsoring bodies',you are to make a
remittance of a part of your won fund,not lower than 10-percent, after
receiving your allocation to a charity organisation.

Congratulations
once again from all our staff and thank you
for being part of our
promotions program.
Sincerely Yours,
MARIA THOMPSON.
THE PROMOTION
COORDINATOR,

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