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 13, 2006

FROM UNITED KINGDOM: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <ukweb019@o2.pl>
Date: 11-Nov-2006 08:22
Subject: FROM UNITED KINGDOM: BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING
To: Undisclosed-Recipient


UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England

Customer Services

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING
NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
UNITEDKINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery programs. The
online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by
an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no
tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail
address emerged as one of three winners in the category "A" with the
following winning information:

REF No: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize
of £1,450,000(One million,Four Hundred and FiftyThousand
poundsterling)each from the total payout. 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 begin the claims processing of
your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and
accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information
below:

To file for your claim,Contact the processing Consultant :

Name: Mr.Johnson Bricks
Email:johnsonbricks_worldclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: +44 704 012 2601
Fax: +44 707 515 8432

Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence.
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public
especially your reference and ticket numbers (This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained).You are hereby advice
to send the assign judiciary Agent details below for Processing
of your Claims:

(1)FULL NAME
(2)FULL ADDRESS
(3)NATIONALITY.
(4)DATE OF BIRTH
(5)OCCUPATION
(6)WINNING EMAIL
(7)TELEPHONE NUMBER
(8)DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION
(9)SEX
(10)TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(11)MARITAL STATUE
(12)COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND RESIDENT

Sincerely,
Mrs. Cecilia Moore
For UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.

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