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

TICKET NUMBER: 46939894427

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: leedcb@aim.com <john_watts1@virgilio.it >
Reply-To: leedcb@aim.com
Date: 30-Nov-2006 22:36
Subject: TICKET NUMBER: 46939894427
To:

TICKET NUMBER: 46939894427
LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS
Sir/Madam,
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the
Second Category draws of THE LOTT NL.PROMO INT. We are happy to inform
you that you have emerged as a winner under the First Category, which
is part of our promotional draws. The results of the draws hve been
officially announced .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 46939,with serial number 472-
9768 and lucky number W-91237-H?67/B4 consequently won in the First
Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sumpay out of
1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout for
Category
A winners.This is from a total cash prize of 10,000,000.00
(Ten Million
Euros) shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in
this
category.

In your best interest to avoid 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 our paying bank immediately for due processing and
remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice:

NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find below your
Reference and Batch  numbers. Remember to quote these numbers in your
correspondence with your paying bank.Also give them the following
informations
Name
Telephone numbers and fax
Age
Address
Occupation
REF
Number:  NM/BC921245/KY14
BATCH No: NM/207161/WOP.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank. To begin your claims,
kindly contact the paying bank with the below information:
***********************************************
Contact person:Mr
Patrick Rowley
International Remittance Officer
E-mail:leedcb@aim.com
Tel:0031 633 701 450
Fax: 00 31 847 570 900
***********************************************
NOTE: All claims are
nullified after 10 working days from today if unclaimed
Congratulations
once again from all our staffs, and  thank you for
being part of our
promotions program.

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Susan
Smith
online co-
ordinator

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