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.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

UN XMAS BONANZA!!!!!!!!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: UNLOTTERY XMASBONANZA <unlottos2006@bellsouth.net>
Date: 21-Nov-2006 02:27
Subject: UN XMAS BONANZA!!!!!!!!
To: unlotteryxmasbonanza@un.co.uk





CONTROLLER

The United Nations Games Promotion
Headquaters
270 John Downey Drive
New Britain
EC1Y 8SY
LONDON
UNITED KINGDOM

                                     (Customer Services)
Ref: UN/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369
                                                                                                               DATE: 20/11/2006
                                    NOTIFICATION OF CLAIMS:

Dear Sir/Madam

We happily announce to you the draw (#921) of the , online Sweepstakes International  program held on Saturday 18th of November, 2006.
Your e-mail address attached to TICKET NUMBER: 1322-4712-640 with SERIAL NUMBER:2177-16,LUCKY DREW NUMBERS:21-18-8-28-05  which subsequently won you the prize in the 2nd category .You have therefore been approved to claim total sum of $500,000us dollars(Five Hundred Thousand United states Dollars) credited to your file .This is from a total cash prize of  $5,000000,000us dollars shared amongst the one thousand lucky claimants 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 $500,000us dollars  will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.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.
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 claims  agent at the amsterdam branch:
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MR.DONALD TODD
#270 Diemen Indusrial Layout
3425DL Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
Tel:+31-626-798-892 Fax:+31-847-474-594
Official Email:unlotterydept@aol.co.uk
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Endeavour to contact him with the following informations:

1,Full Names................................................................................................................................
2,Contact Address.....................................................................................................................
3,Telephone Number................................................................................................................
4,Age............................................................................................................................................
5,Sex...........................................................................................................................................
6,Nationality..............................................................................................................................
7,Occupation............................................................................................................................
8, Claims information i,e ticket number, batch number, reference number, serial number   e.t.c
Congratulations from me and members of staff of  THE UNITED NATIONS Sweepstakes International Program.
Yours faithfully,
MAGRET  WOODS (MRS)
Online coordinator for THE UNITED NATIONS  Sweepstakes International Program
For and on behalf of the
Office of the Secretary General
OF THE UNITED NATIONS

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