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 20, 2006

MICROSOFT AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MICRO AWARD <micro_award_winning@web.de >
Date: 20-Nov-2006 01:58
Subject: MICROSOFT AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
To: micro_award_winning@web.de

 
                                             MOTTO: FIGHTING POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD
FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT, MICROSOFT CORPORATION WORLD LOTTERY
UNITED KINGDOM.61-70 Southampton Row,
Bloomsbury London United Kingdom WC1B 4AR.
 
REFERENCE NO: MSW-L/200-26937
BATCH NO: EuroMillions Ball number 34EuroMillions Ball number 48EuroMillions Ball number 25EuroMillions Ball number 17EuroMillions Lucky Star number 3EuroMillions Lucky Star number 2
 
Lotto Ball number 4Lotto Ball number 22Lotto Ball number 9Lotto Ball number 24Lotto Ball number 30Lotto Ball number 41Lotto Bonus Ball number 20   
  
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION
AWARD PRESENTATION CENTER: UNITED KINGDOM
 
DEAR WINNER,
 
MICROSOFT COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT YOU ARE A WINNER OF OUR ANNUAL MS-WORLD LOTTO LOTTERY CONDUCTED IN EUROPE BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 16th .Nov 2006  CONGRATULATIONS!!!
 
YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS OR COMPANY EMAIL WAS ATTACHED TO SEPTEMBER MSWLL. WITH SERIAL NUMBER S/N-00168 DREW THE LUCKY NUMBERS 887-13-865-37-10-83, AND CONSEQUENTLY WON IN THE FIRST LOTTERY CATEGORY. YOU HAVE THEREFORE BEEN APPROVED FOR LUMP SUM OF €450 000,00 (FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO  ONLY) PAYABLE IN CASH CREDITED TO FILE REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937 THIS IS FROM TOTAL PRIZE MONEY OF € 25,000,000 EURO, SHARED AMONG THE FIFTY(50) LUCKY INTERNATIONAL WINNERS IN FIRST AND SECOND CATEGORY.
 
ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE WEBSITES ESPECIALLY YAHOO MAIL THROUGH OUR MICROSOFT COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAWN FROM 21,000 NAMES, 3,000 NAMES FROM EACH CONTINENT (CANADA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATE, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA AND OCEANIA, AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL "E-MAIL" PROMOTIONS PROGRAM, WHICH IS CONDUCTED ANNUALLY FOR OUR PROMINENT MS -WORLD USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF INTERNET AND COMPUTERS WORLDWIDE. 
 
YOUR FUNDS IS DEPOSITED WITH GUARDIAN INTERNATIONAL BANK AND INSURED WITH YOUR REF NO: MSW-L/200-26937 WHICH WILL BE RELEASE AFTER DATAS VERIFICATION AND CLARIFICATIONS TO YOU BY ONE OF OUR PROCESSING SECURITY COMPANY  IN CHARGE (HAMVAN SECURITIES S.L ). YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS SHOULD BE USED IN ALL CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER.
 
PLEASE NOTE THAT, YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT MR BARRY MANFRED ,VIA EMAIL AND PHONE AS WE ARE PROMOTING THE USE OF E-MAIL. ALSO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CALL THE HAMVAN SECURITIES S.L TO CONFIRM YOUR WINNINGS AND GOVERNMENT TAX PAYMENT THAT IS ALL, AS THE SECURITY COMPANY  WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NECESSARY DETAILS ON HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE.
 
AS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOL YOU ARE TO QUOTE THIS SECURITY AND INSURANCE CODE MSW/FEB/XX06 TO YOUR CLAIMING AGENT.
 
Foreign Operation Department.Hamvan Securities S.L
Avda. Alberto Aguilera 54-65 28015 Madrid, Spain
Contact person Mr Barry Manfred.
Tel 00 34 647 258 556.
E-mail: hamvansecurities@aim.com                
Telephone lines are open between the hours of
8:00am-19:30pm.Monday -Saturday ...Ext..001
 
REMEMBER, ALL PRIZE MONEY MUST BE CLAIMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ALL FUNDS NOT CLAIMED ON OR BEFORE 24th OF DECEMBER WILL BE RETURNED AS UNCLAIMED AND DONATED TO CHARITY ORGANIZATION IN AFRICA .
 
NOTE: IN ORDER TO AVOID MISTAKES, PLEASE REMEMBER TO QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE AND BATCH NUMBERS AND YOUR SECURITY AND INSURANCE CODE OF MSW/FEB/XX06 IN ALL CORRESPONDENCES WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER.
 
AT ONCE YOU WILL BE ASKED TO PROVIDE SOME DETAILS TO ENABLE HAMVAN SECURITIES S.L PROCEED WITH YOUR WINNING CERTIFICATE AND FILE KEEPING.
 
CONGRATULATIONS, ONCE MORE FROM THE ENTIRE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF MICROSOFT COOPERATION TO ALL OUR LUCKY WINNERS THIS YEAR. THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF THIS PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM.
 
OUR SPECIAL THANKS AND GRATITUDE TO BILL GATE OF MICROSOFT AND ALL HIS ASSOCIATES FOR ALLEVIATING POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD .
 
SINCERELY,

                                
                                 
Mrs. Sabina Aberto                                    Mrs. Caro Smith
(Co-coordinator).                                    (Secretary)
                               
 
Past winners.
 
 


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