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 06, 2007

***Congratulation Your Email Has Won***

UK ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
P O Box 1010 Liverpool,
L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)


FINAL NOTIFICATION

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of
 £1,000, 000.00 (British Pounds) held on the  of November 6th 2007 in
LondonUk.Theselection process was carried out through random selection
in our omputerizedemail selection system(ess) from a database of over
250,000 email addressesdrawn from which you were selected.

The UK ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL is approved by the British Gaming
Board.Tobegin the processing of your prize you are to contact our
fiduaciary claimsdepartment for more infomation as regards procedures
to claim your prize.


REF No: UKNL-L/200-26937
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644

You are to contact the Claims Consultant:
Mr. John Morgan
Tel: +(44)-703 190 7883
Tel:+(44)- 703 1972 938
Email:claimsagent_officedept@yahoo.co.uk

(1) FULL NAME
(2) FULL ADDRESS
(3) NATIONALITY
(4) AGE
(5) OCCUPATION
(6 )TELEPHONE NUMBER
(7) SEX
(8) TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(9) COUNTRY

If you do not contact your claims agent within 3 working days of this
Notification, your winnings would be revoked. Winners are advised to
keep theirwinning details/information from the public to avoid
Fraudulent claim
(IMPORTANT) pending the prize claim by inner.

*Winner under the age of 17 are automatically disqualified. *Staff of
the UK ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL are not to partake in this Lottery.



Congratulation!!

Sincerely,
Mrs. Rose Wood

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