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 19, 2006

CONTACT: FOR YOUR PRIZE YOU WON



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: [redacted]
Date: 19-Nov-2006 07:04
Subject: CONTACT: FOR YOUR PRIZE YOU WON
To: undisclosed-recipients

CONTACT: FOR YOUR PRIZE YOU WON
YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WON THE LOTTERY.
REF Number: ICB/231-ILGI0431/06
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category draws of THE LOTTO NL PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the First Category, which is part of our promotional draws.
 
The draws are being officially announced today 18TH of November 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program.
Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number 20511465463-7655, with serial number 472-9768-79 drew the lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-65-55 and consequently won in the First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of $4,500,000,00 (Four Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), which is the winning payout for Category A winners.
This is from a total cash prize of $25,000,000.00 (Twenty Five Million Dollars) shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category
CONGRATULATIONS ! ! !
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.
In your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants/nonparticipants of this program.
Please contact your claim agent officer (International Remittance Dept)immediately for due processingand remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with claims agent

REF Number: ICB/231-ILGI0431/06
BATCH No: EOS/15/096/TVFS
TICKET No:20511465463-7655
SERIAL No:472-9768-79
LUCKY No:8-66-97-22-65-55
To claim your funds, please contact your claim officer .
Contact person:

QUAD CRUISE NL
Name: Paul Martel
Phone:+31 644 893 520
Email:paulmartel777@aim.com
        paulmartel7@yahoo.de

You are advice to provide him with the following information:
1. NAME IN FULL:........................
2. ADDRESS:.............................
3. NATIONALITY:.........................
4. AGE:.................................
5. OCCUPATION:..........................
6. PHONE/FAX:...........................
7.COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE..................

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Yours Faithfully,
Walter Jones.
Lottery Coordinator.
N.B: All claims are nullified after 15 working days from today.

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