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

LSLUK/2031/8161/06 WON EUROS CHECK

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: losr@losr.orangehome.co.uk <losr@losr.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: 12-Nov-2006 07:19
Subject: LSLUK/2031/8161/06 WON EUROS CHECK
To: undisclosed-recipients


LSLUK/2031/8161/06 WON EUROS CHECK

STAATSLOTERIJ EMAIL PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL
FROM:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD.
PROMOTING INTERNET USAGE OVER THE GLOBE
(MICROSOFT ENCOURAGE GLOBALIZATION)

FROM: THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT
Microsoft B.V. Boeing Avenue 44 9459 PE Schiphol-Rijk.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice,
the results of the First Category draws of MICROSOFT PROMOTION 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 11th 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 50941465206-529, with
serial number 5772-54 drew the lucky numbers 3-4-17-28-35-44 and
consequently won in the First Category.
You have therefore 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 the total prize money from 1,500,000 shared among the 2 winners in
this category CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank.
In your best interest to aviod 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 claims department immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice: To
file for your claim,please contact the fiduciary agent.
***********************************************
Mr.Peter van Holf,
Address:P.O. Box 2021 3500GA Utrecht Netherlands.
Tel. : +31-649-301-215
Email :executiveplaneth@aim.com
***********************************************

You are advised to contact the agents by email.
Failure to do so may warrant disqualification.
NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your Reference and
Batch numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your correspondence with
your claims agent.

REFERENCE NUMBER: LSLUK/2031/8161/06
BATCH NUMBER: 15/051/IPD

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our promotions program.

Sincerely Yours,
MRS.HANA VOSSESTEIN.
THE PROMOTION COORDINATOR,
MICROSOFT NL.

N.B: Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result
to disqualification.Contact your fiduciary agent immediately.

This promotional program takes place every year. This year promotion was
promoted and sponsored by THE MANAGEMENT OF THE STAATSLOTERIJ COMPANY B.V.
We hope with part of your winning you will take part on
our next year 2 million international promotion.

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