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.

Friday, November 02, 2007

CONGRATULATIONS :You Have Won ($2,400,000.00) On The Pick winners Promotions.

From: lotto board <l.b61d@hotmail.com> [verified by SPF]
 
Ref No: ZAR/J0021-671/SA2007
Batch No: 002472/B8992-60

Dear Email Owner,

       We happily announce to you today 2nd Nov  2007, the Draw # (4 2 11 23 8216 10) of the PICK WINNER ONLINE ORG. held recently. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 728-10185-03124-78 288 with Serial number n6712/05 drew the lucky numbers 01-05-13-267-32-05 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. Thunder ball Jackpot.

        You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,400,000.00(Two Million, Four Hundred Thousand, United States Dollars) in cash credited to file RPC/908011 8308/04.

       All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online.

      This promotion takes place monthly. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our International Booklet representative office here in South Africa as indicated in your winning numbers. Your fund is now available for claim. Due to the mix up of some numbers and email address, we request you to quote your Reference and Batch numbers when you contact our fiduciary agent. We also advice you to keep this award strictly from Public Notice until your claim has been processed. This is part of precautionary measures to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa.

FIDUCIARY AGENT CONTACT:
MR. ANTON BROOKS
Tel: +27-786106611

NOTE: YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FILL IN THE BELOW DETAILS FOR THE PROCESSING
OF YOUR CLAIM.

NAME:..................................
EMAIL ADDRESS:............................
ADDRESS:.......................................................
NATIONALITY:...........................
SEX:.........................................
AGE:.....................................
PHONE/MOBILE:..........................
FAX:...................................
OCCUPATION:....................................
COMPANY:..............................
BATCH/WINNING
NUMNBER:............................................


              PLEASE YOU MUST BE 18 YEARS AND ABOVE TO CLAIM A PRIZE.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote our reference/batch numbers to any correspondences with our designated agent or us. Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program, and thank you for being part of our promotional lottery
program.

Sincerely,
Mrs, Jessica Zuma
Zonal Coordinator.                    
 
****NB: Please keep this award strictly from Public Notice until yourclaim has been processed****

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