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 06, 2006

CONTACT YOUR PAYING BANK.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: info_winx10@virgilio.it <info_winx10@virgilio.it>
Date: 07-Nov-2006 02:04
Subject: CONTACT YOUR PAYING BANK.
To:


CONTACT YOUR PAYING BANK.
WINX LOTTO INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/
PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

We are pleased to
congratulate you, and announce to you,
the results of the First
Category draw of THE WINX
LOTTO 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 15th of October 2006. Participants
were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 e-mails
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 78432092150,
with prize number 59918/UK, which
consequently won in the
First Category. You have been awarded a lump
sum pay-out of
€1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning
payout
for Category "A" winners. This is from a total cash prize of
€10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Euros) shared amongst the first
Ten (10)
lucky winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is
currently 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 till
the process of
transferring your claims has been completed, and your
funds
remitted to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming
or unscrupulous acts by participants/non-participants
of this
program. Please contact our paying bank (Inter Continental
Alliance
Finance & Securities) immediately for due processing and
remittance
of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, do remember to quote
these numbers in your correspondence with your paying bank:
To claim
your funds, please contact the paying bank.
*************************************************
Contact person: Mr.
John Kane,
(International Remittance Department).
Email:
intercafsbank1@netscape.net
Tel: +31-610-069-066
Fax: +31-847-292-338
*************************************************
N.B: All claims are
nullified after 20 working days from today.
Congratulations once again
from all members of Winx
Lotto International. Thank you for being part
of our
promotional program.

Yours in service,
Dr. Bernard Van Dough.

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