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.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

YOUR EMAIL HAVE WON YOU MICROSFT ONLINE LOTTERY

FROM:DR  SMITH  REUBEN
MICROSOFT AWARD TEAM
20 CRAVEN PARK,
HARLESDEN,
TELEPHONE:+44-702 403 6589
LONDON,NW10,ENGLAND,
UNITED KINGDOM.

  CONGRATULATIONS!  CONGRATULATIONS!!  CONGRATULATIONS!!!

DEAR WINNER,

MICROSOFT COOPERATION MANAGEMENT WORLDWIDE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT
YOU ARE A WINNER OF OUR ANNUAL MS-WORD LOTTO LOTTERY CONDUCTED IN EUROPE
BEING THE HOST OF THE EVENT FOR THIS PRESENT YEAR MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO
WINNING PROGRAMS HELD ON 21ST OCTOBER 2007.

YOUR PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS OR COMPANY EMAIL WAS ATTACHED TO MSW LL. WITH
SERIAL NUMBER S/N-00168 DREW THE LUCKY NUMBERS 887-13-865-37-10-83, AND
CONSEQUENTLY WON IN THE FIRST LOTTERY CATEGORY. YOU HAVE THEREFORE BEEN
APPROVED FOR LUMP SUMS OF  £1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION BRITISH POUNDS)
PAYABLE IN CASH CREDITED TO FILE REF NO:MSW-L/200-26937 THIS IS FROM TOTAL
PRIZE MONEY OF  £ 400,000,000,SHARED AMONG THE LUCKY INTERNATIONAL WINNERS
IN FIRST AND SECOND CATEGORY.

ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED FROM WORLDWIDE WEBSITES ESPECIALLY YAHOO
MAIL THROUGH OUR MICROSOFT COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM DRAWN FROM 21,000 NAMES,
3,000 NAMES FROM EACH CONTINENT (CANADA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATE,
EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA AND OCEANIA, AS PART OF INTERNATIONAL "E-MAIL"
PROMOTIONS PROGRAM, WHICH IS CONDUCTED ANNUALLY FOR OUR PROMINENT MS -WORD
USERS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND TO ENCOURAGE THE USE OF INTERNET AND
COMPUTERS WORLDWIDE.

YOUR FUND (CERTIFIED CHEQUE) HAS BEEN INSURED WITH YOUR REF
NO:MSW-L/200-26937 AND WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY. IT WILL BE DELIVERED TO
YOU BY ONE OF OUR CLAIM AGENT IN CHARGE OF YOUR ZONE ( MR.BENSON JACK).
YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS SHOULD BE USED IN ALL CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOUR CLAIMS
OFFICER, PLEASE NOTE THAT, YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER VIA
EMAIL AND PHONE AS WE ARE PROMOTING THE USE OF E-MAIL.ALSO YOU HAVE THE
RIGHT TO CALL HIM TO CONFIRM YOUR WINNINGS AND GOVERNMENT TAX PAYMENT THAT
IS ALL, AS HE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NECESSARY DETAILS ON HOW TO CLAIM
YOUR PRIZE.

AS PART OF OUR SECURITY PROTOCOL YOU ARE TO QUOTE THIS SECURITY CODE
MSW/FEB/XX06 TO YOUR CLAIMING AGENT. THIS IS TO PREVENT SCAM.

PRIZE CLAIM AGENT DETAILS BELOW;

NAME: BENSON JACK.
Tel: +44 703 196 4025
EMAIL: bensonjackza@yahoo.co.uk

ALSO SEND TO HIM YOUR DETAILS BELOW;
1.TEL/FAX:
2.SEX:
3.AGE:
4.MARITAL STATUS:
5.NAME:
6.COUNTRY:
7.ADDRESS:
8.OCCUPATION:
9.REF NO:
10.SECURITY CODE NUMBERS:
11.LUCKY NUMBERS:
12.SERIAL NUMBER:

REMEMBER, ALL PRIZE MONEY MUST BE CLAIMED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. ALL FUNDS
NOT CLAIMED ON OR BEFORE THE FIXED DATE WILL BE RETURNED AS UNCLAIMED AND
DONATED TO CHARITY ORGANIZATION IN AFRICA.

NOTE: IN ORDER TO AVOID MISTAKES, PLEASE REMEMBER TO QUOTE YOUR REFERENCE
AND BATCH NUMBERS AND YOUR SECURITY CODE OF MSW/FEB/XX06 IN ALL
CORRESPONDENCES WITH YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER. DO NOT REPLY ANY OTHER MAILS
LIKE THIS ON NET, AS THEY ARE A LOT OF SCAM ARTIST OUT THERE PRETENDING TO
BE US. KINDLY CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS OFFICER  MR. BENSON JACK. AT ONCE YOU
WILL BE ASKED TO PROVIDE SOME DETAILS TO ENABLE THE OFFICE PROCEED WITH
YOUR WINNING CERTIFICATE AND FILE KEEPING.

CONGRATULATIONS, ONCE MORE FROM THE ENTIRE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF OF
MICROSOFT COOPERATION TO ALL OUR LUCKY WINNERS THIS YEAR. THANK YOU FOR
BEING PART OF THIS PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAM. OUR SPECIAL THANKS AND
GRATITUDE TO BILL GATE OF MICROSOFT AND ALL HIS ASSOCIATES FOR ALLEVIATING
POVERTY ROUND THE WORLD.

YOURS FAITHFULLY,
DR REUBEN  SMITH.
MICROSOFT PROMOTION TEAM
VICE PRESIDENT

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