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.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERIES <info_uklotteries@o2.pl>
Date: 08-Oct-2006 04:28
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


The Marina Offices,

St Peters Yacht Basin,

Newcastle upon Tyne,

NE6 1HX England

(Customer Services)


The draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY. online Sweepstakes International
Program held on 29th April 2006, won you the Lottery in the JACKPOT Bonus.
The amount you luckily won is yet to be claimed and you are getting the
FINAL notification as regards this Email.


NOTE: We had to wait for all Winners who purchased the Lottery Ticket(s)
to claim their prizes before notifying you who won *Online* even without
your knowledge. This is the reason we have not notified you of your
winnings before now.


Your e-mail address was attached to the following winning numbers: 4, 10,
23, 36, 37,49, By our computer draw system, which subsequently won you the
lottery in the Email Lottery (e-Lottery).

Because your email was attached to our winning numbers, you are QUALIFIED
as one of the draw winners. You have therefore been approved to claim: a
total sum of 1,550,000.00 (ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
POUNDS STERLING) in CASH credited to file number ; KTU/9023118308/03. and
Draw Number: 1080.01.

The total cash prize was shared amongst (5) lucky winners in this category
i.e Email Lottery (e-Lottery)

All participants for the Email Lottery (e-LotteryŽ) were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites (w.w.w.) through our Email Lottery
Draw System (E.L.D.S) and extracted from over 100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.


This Lottery programme is part of the Country's Programme to fund for the
Olympic Games in 2012 (The 1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle).
Other sums to be raised from the National Lottery would be from Ticket
sales, Marketing, Sponsorship and the sale of Television rights.


Note: You did not purchase any Ticket(s) for this winning, your email was
selected by our E.L.D.S.(e-Lottery) randomly.


Your 1,550,000.00 will be released to you by Fuciary agent(The west Africa
Agency)Mr Nicholas Poley

Our Africa agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact them.


For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in your country.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.


To file for your claim, kindly contact our fiduciary agent with the
information below:

Name: Nicholas Poley
Email: n_poley@outgun.com,n_poley@o2.pl, nicho_poley@k.ro, nicho_poley@k.ro

YOUR FULL NAMES:
YOUR WINNING NUMBERS:
YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS:
YOUR AGE:
YOUR COUNTRY:
LANGUAGE:
YOUR OCCUPATION:
COMPLETE BANKING INFORMATIONS:

Please endeavor to contact Mr. Nicholas Poley with the required information
as soon as possible.You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your winnings :- http://www.national
lottery.co.uk/player/information.do?info=unclaimedprizes
ONCE YOU VISIT THE ABOVE SITE, CHECK FOR YOUR WINNING DATE AND NUMBER.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,

Darryn Clarke(Mrs)
Online coordinator
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program As Copyright 2006
Do not reply this E-mail, contact our fiduciary agent with the above
email------

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