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.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

CONGRATULATION lotterypromo_200@yahoo.ca

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: lotterypromo_200@yahoo.ca < lotterypromo_200@yahoo.ca>
Date: 22-Nov-2006 12:22
Subject: CONGRATULATION  lotterypromo_200@yahoo.ca
To: lotterypromo_200@yahoo.ca

CHARITIES LOTTERY PROMOTIONS
Headquarter, Regional Center Charities Lottery,
Furness Gate, Furness Business Park,
East gate, South Africa.

REF NO: CLP/ 24-FB-426253
BATCH: 42/450002/CLP


PRIZE AND AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement the  end of the year
winners of the computer ballot MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS
held
on October, 2006. Your company or your personal e-mail address, is
attached to Ticket Number 644-701-836-872, with serial number 64483-72
drew
the lucky Winning Numbers 06-14-17-28-30-41, and consequently won the
lottery in the 2nd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
$1,000,000.00 dollars in cash credited to file REF NO: CLP/
24-FB-426253. This is from total prize money of $3,000,000.00 dollars shared among the Three
winners (3) international winners in this category.

To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims
department by email or phone for processing and remittance of your
prize money to you.Your claims officer contact details bellow:

File Processing Officer
Mr. TERRY  GAMBO,
CHARITIES LOTTERY PROMOTIONS
South  Africa
Email: claimagent0202@yahoo.ca
Tel: +27 7311 64135.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all
correspondences
with this office. Furthermore, should there be any change of your
address, do inform us as soon as possible.

For the quick processing of your claims, you are required to forward
the following details via email to the File Processing Officer Mr. Terry Gambo, CHARITIES LOTTERY PROMOTIONS to help facilitate the
processing of your certificate which will employ the release of your
winnings.

[FULL NAME OF WINNER]..................................................

[NATIONALITY]...................................................

[PRESENT
LOCATION]......................................................

REF.NO]........................................................

BATCH]..........................................................

[DATE OF
BIRTH]................../.................../.....................

[SEX]..............................................................

[OCCUPATION].......................................................

[WINNING
EMAIL].............................................................

[TEL &
FAX]................................................................

ACCOUNT HOLDER :

BENEFICIARY BANK :

ACCOUNT NUMBER :

SWIFT CODE :

BANK BRANCH :

COUNTRY :



It is expected that you would forward this information to the File
Processing Officer as soon as possible to enable him attend to your
winnings. Once he confirms your information, your payments would be
processed.
Congratulations again from all our staff for being part of our
promotions program.

Sincerely,
Vero Mark (Mrs.)
Charities Lottery Co-ordinator.




Copyright © 2006 Charities Lottery Inc.

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