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 16, 2006

WINNING NOTIFICATION FROM ASIAUKNATIONAL .

From: Dr. Steven Wills <drstevenwills1@she.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2006 5:01 PM
Subject: WINNING NOTIFICATION FROM ASIAUKNATIONAL .


Date: September 15th, 2006,
REF N0: ZFN/22512567303/06
BATCH NO: 86056490902/204
WINNING NO:ASUK/33/36/45/12/06/LW

FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGING DIRECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
OF THE UK LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL

RE: AWARD NOTIFICATION

ATTENTION

The U.K National Lottery/International wishes to inform you of the
results of the E-mail address ballot lottery international program by
the United Kingdom lotto International promotions held on 29th June,
2006. Your email account has been picked as a winner of NINE HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS ONLY ($900,000:00)
We happily announce to you the draw (#1046) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on the 1st
July, 2006 in NEWCASTLE UNITED-KINGDOM. Your e-mail address attached
to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the
lucky numbers :( 06, 09, 11, 33, 36,49and bonus ball 29) which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus
bonus.
To file for your claim, contact our claims below with the following information.
Dr. Steven Wills
Email:drstevenwills1@she.com
Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email
account users for the promotion.

For your information, return a copy of this letter during your reply.

Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Steven Wills
Asia cordinator.
Over 237,000 grants have been awarded from The National Lottery,
totalling over £18.5 billion. These have benefitted all sorts of
people, from Olympic athletes and charities, to schools and
underprivileged groups. Find out here about just some of the people
and projects in your area that you have helped, simply by playing
lottery games.
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