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.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

SUCCESS ALERT: CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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From: lotterypromo32@aol.com <lotterypromo32@aol.com >
Date: 04-Nov-2006 22:23
Subject: SUCCESS ALERT: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
To: undisclosed-recipients

 
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The Irish National Online Lottery 
The Irish National Lottery
P O Box 1010 Dublin,
11 G Lower Dorset Street
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

 
:CONGRATULATIONS YOUR, WINNING NOTIFICATION:
 
 We happily announce to you that you are a winner of the draw (#1016) of the IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on Saturday 28th October 2006 . Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers:Ball number 1Ball number 5 Ball number 7Ball number 41Ball number 43Ball number 49(bonus noBonus Ball number 45 .), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match 5 plus bonus. 
 You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £750,000(Seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of  £3,519,864 shared amongst the (05) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5 plus bonus. 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. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in England as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your £750,000(Seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) 
Would be released to you by any of our affiliated security/courier companies in England. Our Fiduciary agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact her. 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. Please be warned. 
 To file for your claim, please contact our online fiduciary agent: Mrs; Jenet walter, with your informations below:
NAME:.............................
ADDRESS:..........................
SEX:..........................
MARITAL STATUS:........................
AGE:..................................
NATIONALITY:...........................
AMOUNT WON:............................
BATCH NO:..............................
WINNING NO:............................
TICKET NO:.............................
WINNING DRAW:..........................
PHONE NUMBER[LAND/MOBILE]:..............
 Goodluck from me and members of staff of the IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY. 
 
Yours faithfully,
 Kolyn Perkins.
Phone: +447024084710
Online coordinator for 
IRISH  NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program. 
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