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

AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

[source: 41.240.146.152 (South Africa)]

CODDAN LOTTERY ORGANISATION,
CODDAN:5 PERCY STREET LONDON W1T 1DG
Registered in England & Wales No 05370296.
Vat Registered number:864142527.
Ref: Number: ENG/UK6600/77z
Batch Number:UK994500/ENG
LOTTERY AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of the Coddan Lottery International  Lottery programs held in the England on 2nd of November 2007. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold. Your email address was attached to ticket number 990-443215000987, drew the lucky numbers 0-92-776-776-23-09, batch number UK0090/ENG and consequently won the lottery in category A. You have therefore been approved of a lump sum pay out of 2.000,000,00

Pounds (Two Million Pounds) in credited to file lottery Ref Number ENG/UK8899/8H. This is from total prize money of 20.000,000,00 Pounds shared among the international winners in categories A with Serial Number: ENG/55-664/07. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system  drawn form 25,000 company email addresses and 70,000,000  individual email addresses from Australia, Africa, New Zealand, Europe, South/North America and Asia as part of International Promotional Program, which is conducted annually.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund is now in the custody of a financial company insured in your File Reference number. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we advice that you keep this lottery winning strictly from public notice until your Claims has been process and your winning is remitted to you. This is part of our security policy to avoid double claims or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program. This lottery program was promoted by our group of philanthropist headed by the BRITISH LOTTERY BOARD. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our next stakes 8,000, 000.00 Pounds International Lottery.To file for your claim, please contact our financial claim

agent:Contact details below.
Mr.BARNES MIKE
Coddan lottery Org
Tel: +447-024-031-885
Fax: +447-006-032-132
Email:coddan0@yahoo.co.uk
Email:coddan0@gmail.com

Remember that all winning prize must be claimed not later than one week  After this date, all lottery winning funds that are not claimed will be returned as unclaimed.Note: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to always quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with your financial/claims agent. Furthermore, should there be any change of address, do inform your financial/claim agent as soon as possible.Congratulations once again from our team of staff and thank you for being part of our promotion.Anybody under the age of 16 is automatically disqualified.
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APPLICATION FOR PRIZE CLAIM (Receipt Official Notification Letter)
[WINNING NO 1013AP-4]
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[FULL NAME OF WINNER]
[FULL MAILING ADDRESS]
[COUNTRY/ REGION]
[STATE/ PROVINCE]
[DATE OF BIRTH]
[SEX]
[MARITAL STATUS]
[OCCUPATION]
[CURRENT E-MAIL]
[TEL HOME]
[CELLPHONE NUMBER]
[FAX]
WINNING INFORMATION:
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[REFERENCE NUMBER:]
[BATCH NUMBER]
[LOTTERY DATE]
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Submitted Form will be manually verified and processed by the assigned Claims Processing Officer (CPO) The Processing of your form will be completed within the next 24 hours of receiving your LOTTERY CLAIMS APPLICATION FORM-C. You will receive an update on the status of your Application once completely processed.
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© 2007 CODDAN LOTTERY. All rights reserved. Offer valid to winners who Are at least 18 years of age. Void where prohibited. No purchase necessary to claim winning prize. You will need to meet all of the steps to redeem as outlined in the Terms & Conditions before you can receive your promotional prizes.To receive this promotion, you must: 1) submit email and Mailing address information: 2) check your email inbox for "Redemption Notification" 3) Follow Redemption instructions.Once again, accept our congratulations on your prize winning.
Sincerely,
Yours sincerely,
Mrs.ANNY MARTINS.
(Lottery Co-ordinator)
Coddan Lottery Organisation
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