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 03, 2007

ATTENTION: Winner

ATTENTION: Winner

The Local Organising Committee of the European Champions League is glad to
announce to the world the giving away of the sum of ONE MILLION FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS to 100 lucky email addresses all over the world.
This promotion is in Appreciation of our International Support for the
past Soccer Events and the correspondent earnings at the stock market
which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings.Be informed that all
winners in this program have been selected randomly through a computer
ballot system drawn from over 1,500,000 companies and individual e-mail
addresses database. Your email address happened to be one of the lucky
winner of ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS among the One Hundred
email addressess chosen. In other to claim your prize, you will have to
fill the form below and send it back to us for verification and then you
will be informed on how your Cashier's Check for the sum which has already
been deposited with your ail contact.We use this opportunity to thank all
our Sponsors/Contributors of this program: AIR EMIRATES,
IDAS,NIKE,MCDONALDS,COCA-COLA,UNITED AIRLINES,BMW, PEPSI, VIRGIN ATLANTIC,
UMBRO-SPORTLINE, FUJIFILM, AIR-ASIA, BARCLAYS,VODAFONE, NOKIA N-SERIES,
LUCOZADE SPORT, AND A HOST OF EMAIL SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR ALLOWING THE USE
OF THEIR DATABASE FOR THE DRAWS AND ALSO FOR THE PROVISION OF SECURE (SSL)
EMAIL DELIVERY SYSTEMS.

NAME:.....................................................
AGE:......................................................
SEX:......................................................
ADDRESS:..................................................
EMAIL:....................................................
TEL.:.....................................................
OCCUPATION:...............................................
COUNTRY:..................................................

Note ;You have to choose ,
1,Bank option
2,Courier

Please you are advised to complete the form and send back to your
fudiciary agent:
Mr. Fred Longman
Email: agnt_claimuefa110@yahoo.com.hk
Tel: +4470457 58356

or prompt collection. You are automatically disqualified if you are below
16 years of age. This E-mail message (including attachments, if any)is
intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed
and may contain Information that isprivileged, proprietary,confidential
and exempted from disclosure.If you are not the intended recipient, you
are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this
communication is strictly prohibited.


Sincerely,
Susan Brown.

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