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 07, 2007

Contact your claim agent ASAP.

WINNING NOTIFICATION | EURO LOTTERY | NPU-34

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Announcement!
This is a formal notification of the just concluded final draws of the euro millions weekly promotional program held on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:25:15 -0200.

Draw
The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 300,000 email addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web. No tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your email address emerged as one of the five winners in category "B" with the followings:

Ref Number: EUM DN 0508-9T6
Batch Number: EUM QY-3LJ4
Ticket Number: 3510-EM 47
Serial Number: NPU-34
Lucky Number: 05 13 27 33 42 (02-04)

Claim
Bear in mind that prizes will strictly be remitted to winners that officially file in for their claim within the given time frame. To begin your claim, you are advised to immediately contact our accredited claim agent with the details below. Please make sure to forward the above stated winning numbers to FINANS CONSULTS.

FINANS CONSULTS NL
Name: Mr. Roel Bastmeijer
T: +31 650 948 862
F:
+31 847 253 036
E:
finansconsults@aim. com

Your prize award has been insured with your email address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirement of the gaming board authority which includes your statutory obligations. All winnings must be claimed within 14 working days. Any unclaimed prize will be returned to the treasury of Euro Lottery Services. You are advised to keep your winning details strictly to yourself and not share it with any individual or firm.

NOTE: You are to file in for the claim of 2.500.000, 00 Euro (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro).

Thank you for being part of our program and on behalf of all our staff congratulations.


Yours Faithfully,

National Lottery.
(a subsidiary of Euro lottery Services)

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Mr. Graham Sopel
Director of Operations

N.B: Please do not reply to this email, for information please, contact your accredited claim agent.

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