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, November 14, 2007

CALL TO CONFIRM YOUR WINNING

Dear Internet User,

This Email is to inform you that you emerged a
winner of the sum of $2,500,000.00USD with the following numbers
attached Ref Number: PW 9590 ES 9414,Batch Number: 573881545-
NL/2007 and Ticket  Number: PP 3502 /8707-01 on our online draws which
was
played on the 2nd November,2007.

For further Information about your Winnings,contact our Lottery
Fiduciary Agent with the following contact Address Below.

CLAIMS AGENT.
Name: Mr. Eric Ward
Phone: +31616941341
Email: eric_ward2007@yahoo.de

You will provide him with the following information:

First name:
Last Name:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:

Congratulations! Thank you for being a user of the World Wide Web.

Yours Faithfully,
Mary Van Pepple.
Lottery Coordinator.



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