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 14, 2006

YOU 'VE MADE IT!!! (YOUR PRIZE MONEY)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: 2006 AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION <nl_delotto15@virgilio.it>
Date: 14-Nov-2006 21:48
Subject: YOU 'VE MADE IT!!! (YOUR PRIZE MONEY)
To:

YOU 'VE MADE IT!!! (YOUR PRIZE MONEY)

FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
LUCKY DAY LOTTO NL
Ref No:
NLD/2300786008/06.
Batch No:10/044/SLN

Dear Winner,

We are
pleased to inform you the result of the computer random selection for
the LUCKY DAY LOTTO NL International program held on 3rd of October,
2006.Your personal or company email address, attached to ticket number
205-11465886-629, with serial number 3772-99 drew the lucky numbers 7-
14-17-23-31-44, and consequently won the lottery in the 2nd category.

The email lottery draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
900,000.000 e-mail addresses of individual, companies, and corporate
bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search ballot
system from the Internet. All participants email addresses were
extracted/selected through a computer balloting system drawn from 900,
000.000 email addresses from all over the world as part of our
International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually. It was a
promotional program from our software department in promoting the
benefit of the Internet usage.( NO TICKETS WERE SOLD)

You have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of (One Million Untied
Stated Dollars) $1.000.000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO:
NLD/2300786008/06 and Batch No 10/044/SLN, This is from total prize
money of Two million Dollars shared among two international lucky
winners in this category.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your funds have now
been deposited and insured with our affiliate security firm for
transfer into your nominated bank account either by means of wire
transfers through any of our correspondent banks or any other means
suitable to you.

We also advice that you keep your winning
information very confidential as our security policy demands to avoid
double claims/impersonation and unwarranted taking advantage of this
program by participants.

To begin your claims, you are urgently
requested to contact our claims agent (Global Financial Network Bv)
Amsterdam-Netherlands immediately with your telephone number and fax
numbers, and make sure you quote your, REF NO: NLD/2300786008/06,Batch
No: 10/044/SLN your name and contact details in all your correspondence
with the finance institute.

...........................................................
Company
Name: Global Financial Network Bv
Officer in Charge: Mr. Jeffery Bosch
Tel/Fax: +31-84-717-9957
E-mail: globalfnet@netscape.net
............................................................

Remember,
all winnings must be claim not later than 17th of December, 2006. After
this date all unclaimed funds will be return to the promotion company.

Indicate your full Name and Address, Country, Telephone and fax
number in your reply to your claim agent.

Yours sincerely,
Mrs.Noraly
Mattews
(Claims Coordinator)
LUCKY DAY LOTTO NL

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've had that sam,e email 6 times in the past 9 weeks