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

YOUR EMAIL HAS WON IT

01/11/07
Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was
released on the 1st of November 2007, from the
Australian International Lottery programme,which is
fully based on an electronic selection of winners
using their e-mail addresses from some sites. Your
email address was attached to ticket number; 47001725
07056490102 and serial number 7741134002. This batch
draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and
bonus number 17,which consequently won the lottery in
the second category.
You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of
US$500.000,00( FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAN DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/09 from the total cash
prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this
category. All participants were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred
thousand E-mail addresses from
Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle
East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotion program which is conducted annually.

ThisLottery was promoted and sponsored by
aconglomorate of some multinational companies as
partof their social responsibility to the citizens in
the commmunities where they have an operational base.

Furthermore, your details(e-mail address) falls within
our European representative office in
Amsterdam,Holland as indicated in your play coupon and
your prize of US$1.3,000.000. will be released to you
from this regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope
that with part of your prize, you will participate in
our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion
international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducial
agent,DR SANDI SANI . to file for your claim .Please
quote your reference, batch and winning number which
can be found on the top left corner of this
notification as well as your full name, address and
telephone number to help locate your file easily. For
security reasons, we advice all winners to keep
this information confidential from the public until
your claim is processed and your prize released to
you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid
oubleclaiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
programme by non-participants or unofficial personnel.
Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 30TH of
november; otherwise all funds will be returned
asUnclaimed and eventually donated to charity
organisations.
PLEASE CONTACT BARRISTER LEVI , so that he will tell
you of how you will receive your winning prize.

Name: BARRISTER KELVIN
Email:barrister1_kelvin@yahoo.com
Phone:+234-8063827714

ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS AUTOMATICALLY
DISQAULIFIED.
YOURS SINCERELY,
co-ordinator
Congratulations once again on your win!!!
Best Regards
(co-ordinator)
Dr Elvis: Australialoto10@hotmail.com

PEASE DO NOT REPLY THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT AT ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF
THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION
Thanks.

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