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.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Fwd: CONGRATULATIONS!!!..... =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?YOU_HAVE_WON_=80750, 000_Euros..?=

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Swiss Lotto UK <info@[swisslotto.ch]>
Reply-To: gray.larry@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 30-Nov-2006 21:03
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!.....YOU HAVE WON €750,000 Euros..
To: ideceive@gmail.com

SWISS LOTTO UK.
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
https://www.swisslotto.ch

CONGRATULATIONS!!!.....YOU HAVE WON €750,000 Euros

You have been awarded €750,000 Euros in the SWISS-LOTTO Satellite software email lottery in which e-mail addresses are picked Randomly by software powered by the Internet through the worldwide website. Your email address was amongst those chosen this year for the SWISS-LOTTO Satellite lottery.
This promo is proudly sponsored by the SWISS-LOTTO UK organization.

You can log on to our website for more information concerning our Entire lottery promo https://www.swisslotto.ch Your email address, attached to Ref number 5, 7, 14, 17, 18, 43 with Serial number 1979-12 drew the lucky Numbers 10, and consequently won the lottery in the "A" Category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of €750,000 Euros. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European Booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In View of this, your €750,000 Euros will be released to you by our security firm in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact them. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draws System and extracted from over 300,000 companies and individual email addresses.

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to Claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. To file for your claim, please contact the agent
assigned to you.

AGENT: SIR GRAY LARRY
Email: claimsagentts@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: ++44-702-408-4424
     ++44-703-184-6963
     ++44-702-408-4424
You are to provide the following information's to our European agent:-

1.Full Names:-
2.Contact Address:-
3.Country:-
4.Age:-
5.Telephone and Fax:-
6.Occupation:-

This information is facilitate the due process of the release of winnings avoid unnecessary delays and complications in the processing of your winnings.
Please always remember to quote your Reference / serial number in any correspondences with us or our Designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program And Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,
Ian Wright
International Coordinator for SWISS LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Promotions Program
https://www.swisslotto.ch
NB: - PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CORRESPONDENT WILL BE TEMPORARILY BE VIA EMAIL UNTIL 24 HOURS BEFORE PAY-OUT THEN YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED VIA TELEPHONE

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