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, November 05, 2006

BTN: 41632006/20

This fake is above average in quality: the domain name of the contact
address is actually at a real lottery domain. It's still only a free
webmail account, though.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Box Free Lotto Online <[redacted]@adelphia.net>
Date: 06-Nov-2006 03:39
Subject: BTN: 41632006/20
To:


THE BOX LOTTO COMPANY
E-MAIL PRIZE AWARD DEPT
1012 MARK FORD, KENT, E16 2PB
THE UNITED KINGDOM.
BTN: 41632006/20
TICKET NUMBER 7XBYZ2006

THE BOX LOTTO COMPANY OFFICIAL E-MAIL PRIZE NOTIFICATION:

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded last
quarter final draws held on the (31st of October, 2006) by BOX LOTTO
in conjunction with the European Prize Award Promotion, your email was
among the 6 Lucky winners who won $250,000.00 (Two hundred and fifty
thousand Dollars) each on the THE BOX LOTTO COMPANY PROMOTION.

However, your email was attached to ticket number (7XBYZ2006) and
Ballot Ticket Number (BTN: 41632006/20). The online draws was
conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive
list of 2,900,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies
picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the
internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were
assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over
25,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.

This Lottery is approved by the European Prize Award Promotion and
also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming
Regulators (IAGR).
In other to claim your $250,000.00 (Two hundred and fifty thousand
Dollars) prize winning, which has been issued to you. Please Contact
the claims verification officer below.


CONTACT PERSON: MR. ADAM SMITH
E-MAIL: verificationofficer@boxlotto.com
NOTE: A case of double claims will not be entertained.

Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours Faithfully,
Miss Sandra Shaw
For Management.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There is also this one floating around. Please be careful



THE PEPSI COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
19 STREET OFF PARK LANE AVENUE,
LONDON, E14 5DY, UNITED KINGDOM.

THE PEPSI COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION.

You have been Selected in the PEPSI CONSUMER AWARD held this June 2008. We the PROMO BOARD are pleased to inform you that you are approved for a payment of 1,500,000.00 Pounds Sterlings (One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterlings) payable by a certified bank draft, credited to file reference number BTN:41632006/20. It is aimed encouraging customers &internet users.

CONTACT DETAILS OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER/PAYOUT OFFICER:
Name: Dr. Steven Valerie.
19 Street Off Park Lane Avenue,
London E14 5DY, United Kingdom
EMAIL: mailsteven.claimsagent@gmail.com
Phone: +44 7031 937922

Provide the under listed information to claim your prize.
NAME IN FULL.............
CONTACT ADDRESS.................
AGE......................
OCCUPATION......................
PHONE...................
FAX....................
MOBILE...................
SEX (M/F)..................
HOW OFTEN DO YOU DRINK PEPSI.............
REMARKS ABOUT PEPSI..............

Congratulations once again from the Pepsi Family.

Yours Sincerely,
Rhonda Williams
Online Co-ordinator