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.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON 500,000.00GBP!!!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: UK LOTTERY AWARD DEPT <strshukshtab3@hotmail.com>
Date: 08-Nov-2006 13:32
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON 500,000.00GBP!!!
To:


The National Lottery
P.O.Box 17,
Kempsford GL7 4WZ
London.
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Date:7th of November 2006

FROM: BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
TICKET NUMBER: 74454774
SERIAL NUMBER: 144-66584
BATCH NUMBER : BT-4478474121P

AWARD FINAL NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#999) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online
Sweepstakes International program held on the 5th of November 2006. You
were
entered as dependent clients with: Reference SERIAL NUMBER:
144-66584 and Batch number BT-4478474121P.

Your email address attached to the ticket number: 74454774 that drew
the lucky winning numbers:


Bonus Ball [38] which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd
category
i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have been approved for a payment of
500,000.00 POUNDS (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND Pounds Sterling.) in cash
credited
to file
reference number:UKL/K5598/U4.This is from a total cash prize of
five million pounds shared among the ten international winners in first
categories.


All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 50,000 (Fifty thousand) names of email users around the world, as
part of our international promotion program. Due to mixed up of some
names and addresses,we ask that you keep this award personal, till your
claims has been processed and your funds remitted to you.This is part
of our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking
advantage of the situation by other participants or impersonators,You
are to contact our accredited agent for your winnings.

FILL AND SUBMIT TO THE FIDUCIARY AGENT FOR FOLLOW UP

1.NAME:

2.SEX :

3.AGE:

4.TEL:

5.ADDRESS:

6.COUNTRY:

7:NATIONALITY:

8:OCCUPATION:


Mr.Harry Bentley.
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY CLAIMS AGENT.
BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY SECURITY AGENCY
E-mail: harry_claimsagent1@yahoo.co.uk
Phone :+447024070098
He is your agent, and responsible for the processing and transfer of
your winnings to you. YOUR SECURITY FILE NUMBER IS Z-90237-Y°67/U4
(keep personal) Remember, your winnings must be claimed not later than
(15th of November 2006).

Our Lottery agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him. You may wish to
establish
contact via e-mail with the particulars presented above citing the
batch and
reference numbers to this letter.
Our winners are assured of the utmost standards of confidentiality, and
press anonymity until the end of proceedings, and beyond where they so
desire. Be further advised to maintain the strictest level of
confidentiality until the end of proceedings to circumvent problems
associated with fraudulent claims. This is part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of the BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY.

Yours faithfully,
Lou Stradd
Online coordinator for BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.
Copyright (c) 1994-2006 The British National Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines

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