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.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

FROM: MRS. KARLIJN JOHNSON,

FROM: MRS. KARLIJN JOHNSON,

EURO-PW LOTTERY ONLINE.
LOTTERY AND GAMING CORPORATION,

MONTH OF OCTOBER EURO-PW LOTTERY ONLINE,

WINNING NUMBER: FLO-99/002/100

OUR DEAR WINNER,

YOU WON THE SUM OF (ONE MILLION EURO) FROM EURO-PW LOTTERY ONLINE AND GAMING CORPORATION. ALL THE WINNING TICKETS WAS SELECTED FROM A DATA BASE OF INTERNET E-MAIL USERS, FROM WHICH YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS CAME OUT AS THE WINNING COUPON.

WE THEREBY CONTACT YOU TO CLAIM YOUR WINNING AMOUNT QUICKLY AS THIS IS A MONTHLY LOTTERY. FAILURE TO CLAIM YOUR WIN WILL RESULT INTO THE REVERSION OF THE WINNING PRIZE TO OUR FOLLOWING MONTH LOTTERY. (EXPIRING DATE, 9TH OF NOVEMBER). PLEASE CONTACT OUR APPROVED AGENT FOR YOUR REGION WITH YOUR WINNING NUMBER.

EURO-PW LOTTERY ONLINE AGENCY.
MISS. DESKA ROWLAND.
DIRECTOR OF WINNING CLAIMS DEPARTMENT.
TEL: 31-623-180-592
E-MAIL: mrclapp01@netscape.net
E-MAIL: europwz20@myway.com

TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIM, YOU ARE TO KEEP YOUR WINNING TO YOURSELF, UNTIL YOUR CLAIMS HAVE PROCESSED.

REGARDS,

FROM: MRS. KARLIJN JOHNSON.
DIRECTOR OF EURO-PW LOTTERY ONLINE.

LOTTOPW WARANDESTRAAT
564 2330 GK TURNHOUT HOLLAND.
WEBSITE: www.europw.com



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