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.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

YOU WON

YOU WON
WINNING INFORMATIONS:

REF Number: TKP/231-PLGI0541/07
BATCH No: IEU/15/096/QYNL
TICKET No:20511456462-7655
SERIAL No:472-9758-77
LUCKY No:8-66-97-22-65-7

Amount Won: 1,000,000.00 Dollars

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advance dautomated random computer search from the internet. No
tickets were sold.

To file in for the processing of your prize winnings, you are advise to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category "A"winners with the  information below:
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Name: Mr. Peter Van Coppens
Tel: +31-649-304-315
Fax: +31 847 254 686
Email:bvlotto@aim.com
Email:prizeawardbv2007@yahoo.de
http//www.lotto.nl
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You are advice to pro vide him with the following information and a copy of your international passport or driver's license via email attachment or by fax for vetting process which is a standard practice just to ensure that we are dealing with the right individual.

1. FULL NAMES:
2. ADDRESS:
3. NATIONALITY:
4. TEL/FAX NUMBERS:
5. AGE:

Sincerely yours,
Mrs Susan Jones
Lottery Coordinator


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