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.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

CONGRATULATION!!!YOU HAVE WON.

From: ukinternationallottery@ukinternational.orangehome.co.uk
<ukinternationallottery@ukinternational.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: 10-Sep-2006 00:31
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!!YOU HAVE WON.
To: undisclosed-recipients


The International Lottery
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England.
(Customer Services)
Ref: UKON/5464K2/71
Batch: 012/06/DR432
Ticket Number: : 8390281
Serial Number: 3422/06
Lucky Numbers: 4-7-10-33-35-49
Dear Winner,
You Have Won: £118,704

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Winners in our
(Draw#1108) of the UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY,Sweepstakes International
program held on Sat Draw 9th September 2006.Your e-mail address
attached to ticket number 8390281 with serial number 3422/06 drew
lucky numbers 03- 11-13- 18 26-31 (bonus no.35), which consequently
won in the 2ND category, you havetherefore been approved for a lump
sum pay out of £118,704 (One Hundred and Eighteen Thousand Seven
Hundred and Four pounds sterling).This is from total cash prize of
£1,305,744 shared amongst the (11) lucky winners in this
category.CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your
winning information confidential until your claims have been fully
processed and your money remitted to you.This is part of our security
protocol toavoid multiple claims and unwarranted abuse of this program
by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from over 20,000 company and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and
names from all over the world. This promotional program takes place
everyfive years.This lottery was promoted and sponsored by a
conglomerate of some multinational companies in Europe as part of
their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where
they have operational base. We hope with part of your winnings you
will take part in our next year Ten million pounds international
lottery.

To file for your claim, please contact our Payment Centre Department
with the details
below:
Mr. Morris Walter
Email:fiduciaryagent_morriswalter@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447024073304

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays
andcomplications,remember to quote your reference number and batch
numbers in all correspondence.Furthermore should there be any change
of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of
18 is automatically disqualified.

Yours faithfully,
Brian Hunt.

Online coordinator for UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY.
Sweepstakes International Program.
(Open 7 days 8am-11pm.)

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification.Please
do not reply to this mail.
Contact our claims department.

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