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 20, 2006

Congratulations Category A prize winner!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: NATIONAL LIVERWOOD INCORPORATION <[redacted]>
Date: 21-Nov-2006 02:57
Subject: Congratulations Category A prize winner!
To: nationalliverwood@walla.com

NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY INC.
18 Herbert Road,
Sol hall,
West Midlands,B91 3QE
United Kingdom

NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY WINNERS NOTICE

Dear Prize winner,

Congratulations Category A prize winner! You have been selected as one
of two winners of the NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY,computer ballot draws
and thus will be a privileged recipient of the grand draw prize of
£1,500,000 (One million five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds
only). You/Your company, attached to Winning File Reference number
LIUK/5020/0261/20; ticket number 219-8IO-97/A.

NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY conducted its final draws, participants were
selected through a Computer ballot system drawn from 4,100,000
names/email addresses of individuals and Companies from Europe,
America, Asia, Australia, Middle East,Africa, and Oceanic as part of
our international promotions program. You emerged as one of the grand
draw prize in the Category A and are there for entitled to a sum of
£1,500,000 (One million five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds
only). From a total sum of £3,000,000 shared among the 2 winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Please contact our agent by email or phone within a week of receiving
this notice for due processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice, Please find full contact details
below;

Mr. KELVIN WHITE
CLAIMS DIRECTOR
EXTOL FINANCE INC. U.K.
TEL: +447031948559
Email:extolincorporation44@yahoo.co.uk

Also find all other relevant winning lottery information below:

Draw Serial No: 12/619466
Batch No: 01-A442
Zonal Draw No: A1-412
Grand Draw No: 24618

Winners should endeavour to send the following informations below to
our claims officer to avoid uneccessarry delay of claims of funds.

PERSONAL DETAILS
Beneficiary:
User name:
Identification No:
Address:
Coutry:
Amount (winning sum):
Age:
Sex:
marital status:
Ref-number:
Occupation:
Telephone:
Fax:

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

Sincerely,
THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
NATIONAL LIVERWOOD LOTTERY INC.
18 Herbert Road,
Sol hall,
West Midlands,B91 3QE
United Kingdom.

N.B: You are seriously advised to keep all winning lottery information
and numbers from the public in line with our company security protocol
to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by
unscrupulous individuals.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi there
Kelvin White is still at large.

He is triing to get me to pay him a large sum of money.

Please note that the scamers are growing and they are very rude when you start asking questions.

YOurs truly
Eldine Pursadh