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

YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON $1.000,000.00 USD CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

From: microsoft promo <microsoft@microsoft01.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: 29-Sep-2006 01:45
Subject: YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON $1.000,000.00 USD CONGRATULATIONS!!!.
To: undisclosed-recipients


YOUR EMAIL ID HAS WON $1.000,000.00 USD CONGRATULATIONS!!!.

MICROSOFT EMAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
FROM:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION / PRIZE AWARD.
PROMOTING INTERNET USAGE OVER THE GLOBE
(MICROSOFT ENCOURAGE GLOBALIZATION)

FROM: THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Microsoft B.V. Boeing Avenue 44 9459 PE Schiphol-Rijk.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the
First Category draws of MICROSOFT
LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. We are happy to inform you that you have
emerged a winner under the First Category in our yearly promotional
draws. The draws are being officially announced today 27th of
September 2006.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 email 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 number 50941465206-529, with
serial number 337-454 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and
consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been
awarded a lump sum pay out of $1,000,000.00 (One Million United State
dollars), which is the winning payout for Category A winners. This is
from the total prize money from 2,000,000 shared among the 2 winners
in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank. In your best interest
to aviod mix up of numbers and
names of any kind, We request that you keep the entire details of your
award strictly confidential from public notice until the process of
transferring your won money prize has been completed, and your funds
remitted into your bank account.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or
unscrupulous acts by Participants / Nonparticipants of this program.
Please contact your claims agent immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
To file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary agent.
**********************************************
Dr.Hendrik Van Bos , Mrs Cheryl Klein Huis
NETPOINT CLAIM MANAGEMENT SERVICES.
(Claims undewriter, Claims assessor,Claims adjustor,claim negotiator)
TEL/ 0031-619-253-449.
Email:netpointagentsbv@aim.com
***********************************************

You are advised to contact the agents by email.Failure to do so may
warrant disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification,Do remember to quote your
reference and Batch numbers as below in all your correspondence with
your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/06.
BATCH NUMBER: 16/066/IPD.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being
part of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,

Iries Van Guus
Lottery Coordinator.

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