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, August 01, 2006

E-MAIL LOTTERY AWARD!!! FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND USD!!!

From: Sofia Hans <CiscoGlobalWeb@webmailzero.com>
Date: 19-Jul-2006 00:16
Subject: E-MAIL LOTTERY AWARD!!! FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND USD!!!
To: CiscoGlobalWeb@webmailzero.com

OVERSEAS / EURO AFRO ASIA SWEEPS STAKES 2006 LOTTERY,
INTERNATIONAL ONLINE LOTTERY ORGANIZATIONS.
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLAND.
REF NUMBER: OSL/653/029/03
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040-SB06-03

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

ATTENTION: ticket number 27522465896-532

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the
First Category draws of E-MAIL LOTTERY. 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
were held on 15th July 2006 and results are being officially announced
today 17th of July 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 27522465896-532, with serial number
2200-33 drew the lucky numbers 1-0-11-44-03-22
and consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been
awarded a lump sum Pay-out of Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars ($500.000,00), which is the winning payout for
Category A winners. This is from the total prize money from 1,500,000
USD shared among the 3 winners in this category.

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 / non participants 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:

To file for your claim, kindly contact your CLAIMS agent.

Dr. Percy Desmond Williams, (PercyDWilliams@netscape.net)
Cisco-Mega Claims Agency
Telephone 0031-6135-04625
Fax 0031-847-53-9200
Email: CiscoGlobalNet@Netscape.net
The Netherland.

You are advised to contact the agents by email.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your reference and Batch
numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent. REF NUMBER: OSL/653/029/03;
BATCH NUMBER: AT-040-SB06-03.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,
Mrs. Sofia Hans.
PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR.

NB: Warning!!!: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appear to be
using Cisco Mega International Lottery Organisation addresses, but are
not from The International Lottery Organisation.

PLEASE REPORT IMMEDIATELY TO :

CUSTOMER CARE/COMPLAINTS DEPT: ISDNET@Netscape.net

LAST WINNERS CISCO MEGA OVERSEAS/EURO AFRO ASIA SWEEPS STAKES LOTTERY GAME

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