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.

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Payment form

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: MRS ROSE CARL. <[redacted]>
Date: 19-Nov-2006 02:52
Subject: Payment form
To: freepromotion2006@mac.hush.com


FROM:UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
2 LANSDOWNE ROW,BERKELEY SQUARE,
LONDON,W1J 6H,
UNITED KINGDOM.

SUBJECT:WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the Draw (#942) of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online UK National Lottery program held on 18/11/2006. Your e-mail
address attached to Ticket Number: 8603775966738 with Serial number 5368/02
drew the Winning Numbers: 01-05-06-16-18-20(bonus no.25),which
subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match
25 plus bonus.

You have been approved to claim total sum of £2,500,000 (Two Million
FIVE Hundred Thousand Pounds Stering) in cash credited to file.This is
from a total cash prize of £16,102,556 ,shared amongst the Winners with
different amount won in this category.All participants for the online
version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer
draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions associations,and
corporate bodies that are listed online. This
promotion takes place weekly.

Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this,
your £2,500,000 will be released to you by our affilated bank here in
UK.

Our Finance Department will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact our Finance
Department.For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted
to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

To file for your claim,Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for
Processing of your winning with the following informations.

WINNERS ARE REQUESTED TO SEND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATIONS TO THE CLAIMS OFFICER:
Payment Processing  Form
(Details Of Beneficiary)


FULL NAMES:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY:
AGE: ........
DATE OF BIRTH: ............
OCCUPATION:
NUMBER/FAXNUMBER: Phone1:...........Phone2:...............Fax:.................
SEX:
MARITAL STATUS:
State of Origin: ...............
Country: ..................
Winning Email:
Amount Won:____________





SERIAL NUMBER:
TICKET NUMBER:
Batch Number:
Ref Number:



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Fiduciary Agent: BARR. BROWN FRANKLIN
CONTACT BOTH EMAIL ADDRESSES.
Email:   unitedkingdom_freepromotion2006@mac.hush.com

OFFICE EMAIL:custormer_service01@yahoo.com


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You can go to our online result site to confirm the Value of your
winnings and also get a prize

breakdown:http://www.national-lottery.com/results.asp

Please do remember,all winning must be claimed not later than two weeks
of this notification to enable us register you to our website as a
winner.After this time all unclaimed funds will be included in the next
stake.

NOTE
Do not reply to this mail. You are to contact your claims processor
immediately by email.
WARNING!!!
ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK OR ADDRESS
SHOULD BE
FOWARDED TO YOUR CLAIMS PROCESSOR IMMEDIATELY, THIS WILL HELP US TO
FIGHT SCAM
AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION.



Yours faithfully,
ROSE CALY(Mrs)
Online Coordinator for THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
www.national-lottery.com/results.asp

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