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, August 07, 2006

AWAITING YOUR REPLY!!!

From: awardnet1@virgilio.it <awardnet1@virgilio.it>
Date: 08-Aug-2006 02:04
Subject: AWAITING YOUR REPLY!!!

Ticket Nr: 458796
WEBMAIL SUPERBALL PROMO.
FORWARD YOUR DETAILS!!
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/STAAT 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 7th of August, 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 Nr:
458796,
with serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers
3-4-17-28-35-
44 and consequently won in the First
Category.
You have therefore been
awarded a lump sum pay out of
US$1,000,000,00 (One Million United
States Dollars), which
is the winning payout for Category A winners.
This is from the total prize money from 2,000,000
shared among the 2
winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited
with the paying Bank, in
your best interest to avoid 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.

REFERENCE NUMBER: SW/90/0021/7896/56
BATCH NUMBER: 34/0065/KJY
SERIAL NUMBER:5772-54
LUCKY NUMBERS:3-4-17-28-35-44

To file for your
claim,please contact the fiduciary
agent.
****************************************************************************
MR.Albert Dickson.
AMERSFOORT, THE NETHERLANDS.

Reply Email:albertdickson@aim.com
****************************************************************************
Congratulations once again from all our staff and
thank you for being
part of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,
MRS.MARISKA ALLBACK
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,

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