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

End of Year Lucky Winner

Online Ref NO: 0035/10/2007
Dear Winner,
                                               WINNER NOTICE

We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of your email coupon
number which was selected among the 6 lucky consolation prize winners. Your
email ID identified with coupon No. CAN:9728939934. withentries from the
25,000,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game.Your email ID was
included among the 25,000,000 different email addresses submitted by our
partner international email provider companies. No tickets were sold.You
havewon a prize money of Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterlings
for the Month of November, 2007, Amount in United States Dollar is $985, 995.89
USD.


You are to contact the claims agent with the following details for the release
of your winnings.

  Claims Requirements:

1.Name in full:................................
2.Home Address:..........................
3.Age:.............................................
4.Mail:.............................................
5.Occupation:................................
6.Amount Won:.............................
7.Phone Number:.........................
8.Present Country:.......................
9.Sex:............................................
10.Marital Status:........................


NOTE:Please choose one of the most preferrable options of receiving winning
claims below:

  MODE OF CLAIMS
1 Bank to bank transfer
2 Bank Draft


Contact: Mr. Edward Rapeal
E-mail:  customer-supportunit-csu@hotmail.com

Regards,
Mrs. Sandra Crouch
(Group Coordinator)

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