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.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

CONGRATULATIONS(YOU HAVE WON)

From: Bank Giro Lotterij International <claimsagency55@netscape.net>
Date: 27-Sep-2006 20:32
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS(YOU HAVE WON)
To: DearSir/Madam


BANK GIRO LOTTERIJ INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
VAN EEWGHENSTRAAT 71,1071GK
AMSTERDAM THE NEITHERLAND

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Dear Sir/Madam,

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the
Second Category Draws of Bank Giro
Lotterij Int held on the 25th of September 2006. We are happy to
inform you that you have emerged as a
winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional
draws. The results of the draws have
been officially announced.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 emails 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 number758 46939, with serial
number 472-97168 and lucky
number W-91237-H67/B4 consequently won in the First Category. You have
therefore been awarded a
lump sum pay out of $1,110,000 (One Million One Hundred and Ten
Thousand United States Dollars),
which is the winning payout for Category A winners.

This is from a total cash prize of $10,000,000.00 (Ten Million United
States Dollars) shared amongst the
first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.

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/no participants of this
program. Please contact your claim
agent immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize
money to a designated account Bank
account of yours

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference
and Batch numbers. Remember
to quote in your correspondence with the following informations
Name
Age
Address
Occupation
Country
Telephone Number
REF Number: NM/BC921245/KY14
BATCH No: NM/207161/WOP.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your Fund is now deposited with the paying Bank. To begin your claims,
kindly contact our paying bank
with the details below,

POST BANK OF NETHERLANDS.
Herengracht 450-454 1017CA
Postbus 2681000 AG Amsterdam
Tel: +31-629-186-419
Tel: +31-204-001-497
Fax: +31-847-520-454
Email:postbnkcredcont@aim.com
Contact Person: Peterson Van Gooi
International Remittance Department

***********************************************
NOTE: All winning must be claimed not later than 20 working days from
this notification
Congratulations once again from management and staffs of Bank Giro
Lotterij International Promotion
Program, and thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Ruth Peterson
(The Promotion Manager)

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