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 29, 2006

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: jones <lottery@mail.net.mk>
Date: 29-Nov-2006 21:29
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
To:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

  FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD
DEPT.
Attn Lucky Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last
final annual draw of our Lottery International Programs.
The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an
exclusive list of 82,000,000 e-mail addresses of
individual and corporate bodies picked by an advancedn
automated random computer search from the internet. No
tickets were sold.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address
emerged as a winner in the category "A" with the following
numbers attached Ref Number: ANA 6611 SX10001,Batch
Number: 77586858577/5NL/2006 and Ticket Number:555673577
/870701 You are therefore to receive a cash prize of
$2,500,000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) from the total payout.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!. Your prize award has been insured with
your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon
meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,
verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To file in for the processing of your prize winnings,  you
are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims
agent for category "A" winners with the information below:
**********************************************
Name: patrick Bowman
Email:agentbowman2@yahoo.de
Eamil:agentbowman_officeaward@yahoo.es
Tel+ 31 644 893 614
Fax: +31 847 249 030
**********************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following
information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days,
thereafter unclaimed funds would be included in the next
stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all
correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information confidential,
especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is
important as a case of double claims will not be
entertained).
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not
allowed to participate in this program.
Furthermore, should there be any change of address do
inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and
thank you for being part of our promotional program.
Yours Faithfully,
Walter Jones.
Lottery Coordinator
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