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.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

RESULTS OF CATEGORY "A" DRAW

From: bankgiroloterij1@iol.pt <bankgiroloterij1@iol.pt>
Date: 28-Jul-2006 02:19
Subject: RESULTS OF CATEGORY "A" DRAW

CONTACT: MR. HAROLD.VAN.DER.SMIT
LOTERIJ PROMOTION & PRIZE AWARD DEPT
AMSTERDAM,DE NEDERLANDS
OUR REF: DLINT/3306/2106/06
www.
bankgiroloterij.nl

RESULTS OF CATEGORY "A" DRAW

Dear Winner,

Following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic
online Sweepstakes organized by the www.bankgiroloterij.nl corporation,
the Slidecircuir award and the Heineken prizes in conjunction with the
foundation for the promotion of software products (F.P.S.) held in
Amsterdam the Nederlands, wherein your electrononic email address
emerged as one of the online winning
emails in the 1st category and therefore attracted a cash award of
Eur.1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros).

We write to officially notify you of this award and to
advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of
this message for more information concerning the verification,
processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.
It is important to note that your award
information was released with the following particulars attached to it.

REF No: DEN/231-
ILGI0431/06
BATCH No: EAPA/15/096/TVFS
DRAW
No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: 472-
9768-98
LUCKY No: 8-66-97-22-65-
99

Please contact this bank claim processing department to
facilitate the release of your prize, you are
required to mention the above particulars of your
award in every correspondence addressed to the processing department.

CONTACT: MR.
HAROLD.VAN.DER.SMIT
(Claim
Processing
Department)
TEL:+31-633 788 295
FAX :+31-84-724-5784
Mail to: pvandijk1@aim.com

You are expected to provide the following details below to your claims agent:

1)BATCH AND REFFERENCE NUMBERS:
2)FULL NAMES:
3)AGE:
4)OCCUPATION :
5)SEX:
6)PHONES AND FAX NUMBERS:
7)EMAIL ADDRESS:
8)COUNTRY OF RESIDENT:
9)NATIONALITY:
10)MAILING ADDRESS:
11)AMOUNT WON:

The Awards is sponsored by a consortium of software promotion
companies. The Intel Group, Toshiba, Netscape mail server, Dell
Computers, Dutch yahoo mail server, Virgilio mail server,Microsoft and
other international companies. This internet draw is held periodically
no ticket sold and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet
and promote computer literacy worldwide. We are proud to say that over
20 Million Euro are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 20 days Please
note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch
number in all correspondence.

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

Sincerely,

Mrs. Wendy Witkam
(Loterij Promotions Coordinator)

www.bankgiroloterij.nl is een onderdeel van De Loterij
Copyright(c) 2006 by De Loterij, De Nederland's

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