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 16, 2007

NOTIFICATION

[I didn't cut and paste this three times. This is how it arrived.]

BRITISH  LOTTERY 6/49
P O Box 1010,
3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
Date:15th November, 2007
                 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 13th November, 2007 in
London Uk.The selection process was carried out throughrandom selectionin our
computerized email selection system(ess) from adatabase of over 250,000
email addresses drawn from which you wereselected.
The BRITISH. NATIONAL LOTTERY is approved by the British Gaming
Board.To begin the claim process of your prize you are to contact the delivery
department manager of scarlet COURIER to redeem your winning cheque of
£1,000,000.00 pounds that had been deposited in your favor with Scarlet
Courier Delivery Company,please contact Mr: Franklyn White with the
details below:
Mr: Franklyn White
Telephone: +44 70457 54280
Fax: +447075023137
Contact Email:services@scarletdelivery-uk.net
contact him by email and provide him with the following codes below:
Secret pin code x7pwyz2005
Serial number 5368/02
REF No: UK/9420X2/68
TICKET No: 56475600545188
(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 the delivery department manager within 3
workingdays of this Notification, your winnings would be revoked. Winners areadvised
to keep their winning details/information from the public to avoid Fraudulent
claim (IMPORTANT) pending the prize claim by Winner.*Winner under the age of 18
are automatically disqualified. *Staff of the British Lottery are not to partake in this Lottery.
Congratulation!!
Sincerely,
Mrs Stella Robert











BRITISH  LOTTERY 6/49
P O Box 1010,
3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
Date:15th November, 2007
                 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 13th November, 2007 in
London Uk.The selection process was carried out throughrandom selectionin our
computerized email selection system(ess) from adatabase of over 250,000
email addresses drawn from which you wereselected.
The BRITISH. NATIONAL LOTTERY is approved by the British Gaming
Board.To begin the claim process of your prize you are to contact the delivery
department manager of scarlet COURIER to redeem your winning cheque of
£1,000,000.00 pounds that had been deposited in your favor with Scarlet
Courier Delivery Company,please contact Mr: Franklyn White with the
details below:
Mr: Franklyn White
Telephone: +44 70457 54280
Fax: +447075023137
Contact Email:services@scarletdelivery-uk.net
contact him by email and provide him with the following codes below:
Secret pin code x7pwyz2005
Serial number 5368/02
REF No: UK/9420X2/68
TICKET No: 56475600545188
(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 the delivery department manager within 3
workingdays of this Notification, your winnings would be revoked. Winners areadvised
to keep their winning details/information from the public to avoid Fraudulent
claim (IMPORTANT) pending the prize claim by Winner.*Winner under the age of 18
are automatically disqualified. *Staff of the British Lottery are not to partake in this Lottery.
Congratulation!!
Sincerely,
Mrs Stella Robert












BRITISH  LOTTERY 6/49
P O Box 1010,
3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
Date:15th November, 2007

                 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 13th November,
2007 in
London Uk.The selection process was carried out throughrandom
selectionin our
computerized email selection system(ess) from adatabase of over 250,000
email addresses drawn from which you wereselected.
The BRITISH. NATIONAL LOTTERY is approved by the British Gaming
Board.To begin the claim process of your prize you are to contact the
delivery
department manager of scarlet COURIER to redeem your winning cheque of
£1,000,000.00 pounds that had been deposited in your favor
with
Scarlet
Courier Delivery Company,please contact Mr: Franklyn White with the
details below:
Mr: Franklyn White
Telephone: +44 70457 54280
Fax: +447075023137
Contact Email:services@scarletdelivery-uk.net
...............................................................
contact him by email and provide him with the following codes below:
Secret pin code x7pwyz2005
Serial number 5368/02
REF No: UK/9420X2/68
TICKET No: 56475600545188
................................................................
(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 the delivery department manager within 3
workingdays of this Notification, your winnings would be revoked.
Winners areadvised
to keep their winning details/information from the public to avoid
Fraudulent
claim (IMPORTANT) pending the prize claim by Winner.*Winner under the
age of 18
are automatically disqualified. *Staff of the British Lottery are not
to partake in this Lottery.
Congratulation!!
Sincerely,
Mrs Stella Robert


BRITISH  LOTTERY 6/49
P O Box 1010,
3b Olympic Way,
Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
Date:15th November, 2007



































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