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.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

STAATSLOTERIJ NL 2006 YOU HAVE WON;

From: thomasferrelli1@virgilio.it <thomasferrelli1@virgilio.it>
Date: 28-Sep-2006 18:49
Subject: STAATSLOTERIJ NL 2006 YOU HAVE WON;


STAATSLOTERIJ NL 2006 YOU HAVE WON;
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
Laan Van
Hoornwijk 89, 3289 DG Almere.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
http://www.
staatsloterij.nl

Dear Winner,

Following official publication of
results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by the
staatsloterij corporation, the Slidecircuir award and the Heineken
prizes in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software
products, (F.P.S.), held on the 27th of September, 2006, in Amsterdam
The Netherlands, wherein your electrononic email address emerged as one
of the online winning emails in the ?E category and therefore
attracted a cash award of $250.000 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
United State Dollar),

We write to officially notify you of this award
and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon
receipt of this message for more information concerning the
verification, processing and eventual payment of the above prize to
you.

It is important to note that your award information was released
today the 28th of September 2006 with the following particulars
attached to it.

(I) Award numbers: TL 22/15409
(ii) Email ticket
number: TL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto codenumber: TL09622NL
(iv) The file Ref
number: TL/0534/30/05

Please contact the claim agents within 3 working
days to facilitate the release of your prize, You are required to
mention the above particulars of your award in every correspondence
addressed to the processing agents.

MRS.WENDY BERGER
CLAIM MANAGER

MR.
HERMAN VERBEEK
PUBLIC RELATIONS
TEL/FAX;0031-847-595-288
EMAIL:
(wendy_bergerclaimoffice@gawab.com)

Once again on behalf of all our
staff,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
HANS DEKKER
Promotions Manager
Netherlands the Letter company
European promotions.

The
staatsloterij Awards is sponsored by a consortium of software promotion
companies. The Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, and other
international companies. The staatsloterij internet draw is held
eriodically and is so organized to encourage the use of the internet
and promote computer literacy worldwide. We are proud to say that over
200 Million Dollar are won annually in more than 150 countries
worldwide.

We also encourage you to visit our website www.
staatsloterij.nl and take your chance and become part of our daily
winners. Millions are won on a daily basis on one of the world's most
famous staatsloterij service. Who says it is impossible??? Millions
have seen this fortune come true with staatsloterij.

staatsloterij 's
Automatic WIN Ticket service is a great way to make sure that you NEVER
MISS YOUR CHANCE TO WIN OVER $11,000,000.00 every day! Simply wait for
your turn to be picked by our computer ballot system (or the quick pick
option) in each of the six daily staatsloterij games and we'll
automatically play your numbers for you every day.

CONGRATULATIONS;

Sweepstakes International Program.
staatsloterij.
MR THOMAS FERRELI
Online coordinator.

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