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.

Friday, August 04, 2006

SEE MESSAGE IN BOX!!

From: europwlott.message@virgilio.it <europwlott.message@virgilio.it>
Date: 04-Aug-2006 22:59
Subject: SEE MESSAGE IN BOX!!

SEE MESSAGE IN BOX!!
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY
COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
KROPAAR
STRAAT 34, 1032LA,
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Ref. Number:
S2U/102/633/0049
Batch Number: 027/310-SU18
Dear winner,
We are
pleased to inform you of the result of the
Lottery Winners
International programs held on the
4th August 2006,Your e-mail address
attached to ticket
number: 1942896-9032 with drew lucky numbers
11-0-
17-31-60- 75-9 which which consequently won in
the 1st category,
Therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
1,500,000.00 Euros
(One
Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros)

This is from a total cash
prize of 3 Million Euros,
shared amongst the First Three lucky
winners in this
category.All participants were selected randomly
from
World Wide Web site through computer draw
system and extracted from
over 25,000 companies
email addresses and 30,000,000 Individual email
addresses from Australia, New Zealand, America,
Europe,North America
and Asia as part of
International Promotions Program.Europe
Klassenlotterie wish to be grateful to sponsors
who made this year's
program a reality
(Sponsors//http://www.roxypalace.com)now this
program can be
conducted Every World Cup Year .
Revenue for this
programme is derived from the
financing from major multinational
firms cut across
the European community. Please note that your lucky
winning number falls within our Netherlands
booklet representative
office in Europe as
indicated in your play coupon.
In view of this,
your One
Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros)
would be released to you
by our payment office in
Europe.
Our Netherlands agent will
immediately commence the
process to facilitate the release of your
funds as
soon as you
contact him.For security reasons, you are
advised
to keep your winning information confidential till
your claims
is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem
fit to claim your
prize.
This is part of our precautionary measure
to
avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program by
some unscrupulous elements. Please
be warned To file
for your claim,
please contact our fiduciary agent:

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Dr jensen Van buren ,
Claims processing manager
EUROPW LOTTO PLUS
email:
eurolottoplus@netscape.net
Tel: +00 31 625 502 070
Fax:+ 00 31 847 304
735 .
000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000
Immediately to process your winning which will
not take more
than 10 working days from today.
Congratulations once more
Dir.11 NB:
Kindly indicate your Ticket No in your
reply.

Sincerely yours,
Mrs.
Bridget Forster.
Lottery Coordinator

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