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.

Monday, November 13, 2006

Batch No 77/654/EUR

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: wendy.smith31@virgilio.it <wendy.smith31@virgilio.it>
Date: 11-Nov-2006 02:39
Subject: Batch No 77/654/EUR
To:


Batch No 77/654/EUR


EURO ZONAL MANAGER
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY


Dear Winner,
We are pleased to inform you the
result of the computer random selection for The EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY
(LA PRIMITIVA) International program held on 4th of November,2006.Your
personal or company email address, attached to serial number Eu752-89
drew the lucky numbers 8-14-7-3-11-82, and consequently won the lottery
in the 2nd category.

The email lottery draws was conducted from an
exclusive list of 600,000.000 e-mail addresses of individual,
companies, and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random
computer search ballot system from the Internet.

All participants
email addresses were selected through a computer balloting system drawn
from 800,000.000 email addresses from all over the world as part ofour
International Promotions Program, which is conducted Weekly. It was a
promotional program design to benefit and promote the Internet usage.(
NO TICKETS WERE SOLD)
As a result, you have therefore been approved for
a lump sum pay out of (Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States
Dollars) $550,000 in cash credited to file REF NO: NLD/2300786008/06
and Batch No 77/654/EUR

Also, be informed that your funds have now
been deposited and insured with our affiliate security firm for
transfer into your nominated bank account either by means of wire
transfers through any of our correspondent banks or any other means
suitable to you. We also advise that you keep your winning information
very confidential as our security policy demands to avoid double
claims/impersonation and unwarranted taking advantage of this program
by
participants.

To begin your claims, you are urgently requested to
contact our claims agent immediately and the quote the following to
our Foreign Remittance Department of SNS BANK NV as indicated below:
1. Full Names
2. Batch Number.
3. Telephone Number(s)
4. Occupation
5.
Amount Won
........................................................................................................................
Bruce Williams
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
SNS BANK NV
Tel: (+31)623-997-
527
Reply-Email: infodeppt@aim.com
........................................................................................................................
Remember, all winnings must be claim not later than 20th of November,
2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be return to the
promotion company. Congratulation and thank you for being part of our
promotional program.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Linda Van Der Wood
(Claims
Coordinator)
Reply-Email: infodeppt@aim.com

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