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.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION

MICROSOFT/AOL AWARD TEAM
20 Craven Park,
Harlesden London NW10,
United Kingdom.
Ref: BTD/968/07
Batch: 409978E.

Dear Lucky Winner,
OFFICIAL PRIZE AWARDED BY MICROSOFT/AOL COMPANY UK.

The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the end of year anniversary we rolled out over 100, 000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) for our new year Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage. The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers.

Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky numbers 11 48 26 34 44 26 34 which subsequently won you £500,000.00(Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds)as one of the jackpot winners.

in this draw. You have therefore won the entire winning sum of £500,000.00(Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds). The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom on this
Month Of November, 2007. These Draws are commemorative and as such special.

To make claims to your won amount, you are to contact your claims officer using the details below and fill in the CLAIMS REQUIREMENTS FORM which will be used for the processing of you winnings.

Mr.Jean Buckley
Microsoft Promotion Award Team
Head Winning Claims Dept.

Email:  claims_processingdept007@hotmail.com
Tel+44 7045700935.

VERIFICATION AND CLEARANCE FORM

1. FULL NAMES:
2.RESIDENT ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.MARITAL STATUS :
5.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
6.MOBILE:
8.AGE:
10. OCCUPATION:
11.AMOUNT WON:
12. NATIONALITY:
13. TICKET NUMBER AND SERIAL NUMBERS.
INDICATE PREFERRED MODE OF PRIZE COLLECTION:

(A) CHEQUE..........

(B) TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER(ONLINE
TRANSFER)................

DATE....................................

You are advised to contact your claims officer with the email address
to avoid unnecessary delays and complications: claims_processingdept007@hotmail.com

Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gates and his associates. We wish you the best of luck.Thank you for being part of our promotional award program and commemorative Anniversary Draws.

Sincerely,

Dr.Olivia Holland
Head Customercare Service
Microsoft Promotion Team.
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