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 01, 2007

THIS WEEK DRQW WINNER,

The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL, United Kingdom.
Ref:  L/200-26937
Batch: 2007MJL-01

                 WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw (#1071) winner of the UK NATIONAL
LOTTERY cash prize of

£1,000,000 (one Million Pounds Sterling) held on wednesday 30th of October
2007 in London Uk.The

selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerized email selection

system(ess) from a database of over 10,000,000 email addresses drawn from
which you were

selected.
The BRITISH UK. Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board. To begin
the processing of your

prize you are to contact our fiduaciary claims department for more
infomation as regards

procedures to claim your prize.
Note: You are to keep your winnings strictly confidential so as to avoid
double claims and

complications:
Agents Name: Mr Thomas Hooper
Email:uknationallotteryboard005@yahoo.co.uk

TEL:+447045703610
TEL:+447045718030
Fax:+447-7075055524

VERIFICATION FORM:
1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Nationality:
4.Age:
5.Sex:
6.Occupation:
7.Phone/Fax:
8.COUNTRY:

Congratulations once more,and have a great day.
Rose Wood
Online Co-ordinator
U.K NATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.

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