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, July 04, 2006

congratulations!!!!You have won

From: ukwebnotice06@zipmail.com.br <ukwebnotice06@zipmail.com.br>
Date: 05-Jul-2006 08:36
Subject: congratulations!!!!You have won
To: undisclosed-recipients

FROM:NETLOTTERY CORPORATION
REF NUMBER: EAASL/9410Y1/02
BATCH NUMBER: 561701-PCD03
1 QUEENS PARK ROAD
K2M 4RT
LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the NetLottery Corporation
programs held on the 30th of June,2006. Your e-mail address attached
to ticket number 5388/02 with serial number 5388/02 drew lucky numbers

37-13-34-85-56-42 which consequently won in the 3RD category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £500,000.00(Five
hundred thousand pounds sterling only) in cash/check credited to file number

NTL/34123/003.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses and

names from all over the world,the program takes place every year.This
lottery was promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities such as Her

Royal Highness,the Queen of England.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon.In

view of this, your £500,000 (Five hundred thousand pounds sterling) would
be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.Our Agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds
as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please kindly provide the following
informations and send it to our Fiduciary Agent who shall clear you
as a winner.(1)FULL NAMES (2)DATE OF BIRTH
(3)SEX (4)MARITAL STATUS(5)CONTACT ADDRESS (6)PHONE NUMBERS
(7)OCCUPATION(8)COUNTRY

Mr.McGary Moore
Email:ukwebnotice2006@yahoo.com
Upon receipt of the duly requested datas,he shall send to you
the contact information of the paying Office so you can proceed
with effecting the release of your funds.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of Net Lottery International.

Yours faithfully,
Melissa Cole
ONLINE SUPERVISOR
NET LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.

YOUR EMAIL WON LOTTERY

From: AWARD NOTIFICATION <luckydaynl0003@walla.com>
Date: 04-Jul-2006 10:17
Subject: YOUR EMAIL WON LOTTERY
To: LUCKY WINNER <ideceive@gmail.com>

LUCKYDAY LOTTERY
1102 VAN DER TRAAT
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS
www.luckyday.nl

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
luckyday Lotto draw held on the 3rd of July 2006.All 10 winning
Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international Emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as
category A Winners in this year's Annual luckyday Lotto Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
(FOUR million Five hundred thousands dollars) only.
The following particulars Are attached to your
lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: PP 3502 /8707-01
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: 573881545-NL/2006
(iv) The file Ref number: PW 9590 ES 9414

Please contact the under listed claims officer via email and/or phone as
soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings and also
send him the information requested below:

QUAD CRUISE NL
Name: Paul Martel
Phone:+31 644 893 520
Email:paulmartel2@aim.com
Email:paulmartelnl@aim.com

1. NAME IN FULL:................................
2. ADDRESS:.....................................
3. NATIONALITY:.................................
4. AGE:.........................................
5. OCCUPATION:..................................
6. PHONE/FAX:...................................
7.COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE.........

N.B:

Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.

Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are claimed
to avert

incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements. Once again on behalf
of all our
staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Walter Jones
Promotions Manager
The Luckyday Lotto Company

The Luckyday Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel

Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers,Mackintosh and a Conglomeration of other
international IT
companies.

The Luckyday lotto Internet Draw is held once in a year and is so organized
to encourage the

use of The Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over
200
Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

We also encourage you to visit our website at www.luckyday.nl and Take your
chance to play

and become part of our annual winners. Millions are won on a yearly basis
on one of the

world's most famous lotto Service.

ACKNOWLEDGED

From: uk_sweepstakes@virgilio.it <uk_sweepstakes@virgilio.it>
Date: 04-Jul-2006 02:46
Subject: ACKNOWLEDGED

ACKNOWLEDGED

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM.
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS.
BRITISH GAMING/WINNING BOARD.
UNITED KINGDOM.
Ref:
NL/25888S/W4/68
Batch: 574/57/DW739

Dear winner,

RESULT OF CATEGORY "B"
We are
pleased to notify you of the release today as dated of the UK National
Sweepstakes/International Promotions programs held on the 1st day of
June 2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from 98,000 names from Europe, America, Asia, Australia, New
Zealand, Middle-East, Africa, and North & South America as part of our
international promotions program conducted annually to encourage
prospective overseas entries. We hope with part of your prize awards,
you will take part in our end of year £1.3 Billion International
Program. This promotional program was designed to introduce to the
United Kingdom visitors consumers a special benefit to save you
thousands of pounds on purchases ranging from everyday name brand
groceries to travel and entertainment.

The result of our computer
draw of this day reveals your names attached to Ticket Number 11476886
with serial number 178 drew the lucky number 32-35-39-42-44 which
consequently won the prize awards in the 2nd category.

Therefore, you
have been approved a lump sum prize awards winning of £3,810,000 (Three
Million, Eight Hundred and Ten Pounds Only) in cash prize credited to
file Ref. No: BL3/200345/07. This is from the total prize of £21,286,
320.00 (Twenty One Million, Two Hundred and Eighty Six Thousand, Three
Hundred and Twenty Pounds) shared among the Eighteen overseas lucky
winners in this category as part of our promotional program for this
year 2006.

Your prize award has been insured in your names and ready
for claim. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised on final
notice and as a matter of urgency, to contact our licensed and
accredited claim agent for overseas lucky Winners for the processing of
your prize awards winning and payment to your designated bank account.

Agent: Mark Johnson (Mr.)
Tel: +44 790 318 2180
Email:
royalallianceuk@netscape.net

On a final note, you are advised to begin
your claim immediately hence, all prizes awards must be claimed and
disbursed within 30 days of this notification as elapse of the
scheduled "End of Claim" date will authorized funds withholding for
redirection as abandoned/ unclaimed without notice.

Note: To enhance
the processing of your claim by our accredited claim agent, you are
advised to officially introduce yourself to the claim agent and also
provide them with your valid means of your personal identification with
a copy of this awards notification for references.

Yours faithfully,

Dr Noland Delnado
Promotions Director.

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Your Email Won the Category A + (Plus)..€1,500,000.00

From: Postmaster <postmaster@royalamster.info>
Date: 02-Jul-2006 03:12
Subject: Your Email Won the Category A + (Plus)..€1,500,000.00
Cc: list not shown <recipient>

Your Email Won the Category A + (Plus)..€1,500,000.00
Contact your claims officer Mr. R. Debota.!
ROYAL AMSTER INT.
PRIZE AWARD DEPT.

REF No: ANG/257-ILBI0531/07
BATCH No: DENP/15/096/1
TICKET No:20511465463- 7644
SERIAL No: 472-9768-98
LUCKY No: 8-66-97-22-65-99

WINNING EMAIL NOTIFICATION.

Dear Lucky Winner,

Compliments of the season, Congratulations to you as we bring to your
notice, the results of the Free Email ComputerBallot Jackpot 'Category A +
(Plus) of ROYAL AMSTER INT. We are pleased to inform you of the result of
the Lottery Winners Internationalprograms held today.

Your E-mail address attached to Ticket number 20511465463-7644 with Serial
number 472-9768-98 drew the lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-65-99,which
consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a
lump sum payout of Eur.1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Euros).

This is from a total cash prize of Eur.9,000,000.00 Million shared amongst
six International Lucky Winners in the Category A + (Plus).

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

This lottery is a promotional program by ROYAL
AMSTER INT. (Biggest lottery Organization in Belgium/The Netherlands)
to advertise to the world its existence.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot systemdrawn from
over 50,000 companies and 2,000,000individual email addresses from all over
the world, as part of our international promotions program, which we
intend to conduct several times ayear.

Be informed that your documents have to pass our authority
to obtain a clearance, which shall be attached to your document in readiness
of the subsequent onward transfer into your nominated mode of payment within
48 hours of completion of the authentication.

Due to the possibility of unscrupulous individuals filing a double claim, we
suggest that you keep this award strictly confidential until your claim has
been processed and notarized and your certificate of award obtained.

This is in conformity with the lottery claim regulations by our
Organization & the Netherlands Gaming Control Board.

This is part of our security protocol measures to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse ofthis program by someparticipants/non participants.

All winnings must be claimed not later than 15th july 2006. After this
date all unclaimed funds will beincluded in the next stake. Anybody
under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.

To file for your claim, please contact claims officer with contacts below:

CONTACT:

(CLAIMS OFFICER.)
Mr. R. Debota.
Tel:0031-613-839-644
Fax: 0031-847-273-024
Reply To Claims Office Email: royalamster_claimsofficer@iwon.com
Alternative Email: royalamster@winning.com

NOTE: All winnings must be notarized and a certificate of award must be
obtained from the Netherlands Gaming Control Board to complete to effect
transfer of your winning prize.
Winners are responsible for their legal/cost of transfer charges.

In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, provide the following whenreplying:

Name:
Nationality:
Country of
Residence:
Occupation:
Tel number:
Ref no:
Batch no:

Delays will compel us to disperseyour funds, in other
words, we shall divert your funds as stated above.

Kindly remember to quote your reference number number in all correspondence.

Finally, we call on you to make sure that you save a copy of this mail and
note every letter clearly as stated for we will not be held responsible
should there be any complications in this
transaction due to laxity on
your part.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and
thank you for being part of our promotional program.

Yours truly,
Yvonne Van Oort.
(Co-ordinator)

NOTICE: You have received this message from prize dept. at your winning
e-mail address because you have emerged a winner.If you are not the
intendedrecipient, you must not,directly or indirectly,use, disclose,
distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you
believe you have received this message in error,
please do not delete it and allcopies of it from your system and notify
the sender immediately by reply e-mail.

Update,Treat As Urgent

From: Mrs Tonia <computerballotlottery34@yahoo.es>
Date: 02-Jul-2006 01:00
Subject: Update,Treat As Urgent
To: ideceive <ideceive@gmail.com>

EURO MILLIONS LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.
FROM:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REF:EML/ES/IPP/1555002244/05
BATCH:ES34/044/ILP /SL
RE:WINNING NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE
DATE:30th June 2006
Attn:Winner

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Euro millions
Lottery Winners International E-mail programs held on the 23rd of June
2006.
Your E-mail address attached to ticket number 2203-006 with lucky main
number 09 21 30 43 44 drew lucky star numbers 01 09, which
consequently won in the 3rd category, you have therefore been approved
for a lump sum pay out of 600,000.00 Euro. (Six Hundred Thousand Euros
Only) CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Due to a mix up of some numbers and names/programme abuse, we ask that
you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has
been processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of
this program by some participants.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from over 100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email addresses
and names from all over the world.

We hope with part of your winning you will take part in our end of
year 50 millions Euro International lottery. To file for your claim,
please contact our fiducial/Claim agent:
EUROPE CREDIAL INSURANCE & FINANCE, S.A." Name:Mr.Douglas Wilson.
Director Prize Claim Department. TEL:0034-66-33-42.698 .Email:
europecredial@netscape.net or Europecredial@excite.com

Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than 30TH of 10 July
2006. After this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next
stake.All winner shall be Responsible for the Processing and
Legalisation of your winning price.IF. In any case youre Agent Demand
More Than 300 Euros for the Legalisation of your Email Address to your
Name,Please Do Inform us immedaitley.

Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications
please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in
all correspondence to your sole Agent. Furthermore, should there be
any change of address do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff, and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.

Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs.Tonia Alicia
Lottery Coordinator.
http://www.national-lottery.com/resultseuro.asp

SEND REQUIRED INFORMATION BELOW TO YOUR CLAIM AGENT .
EUROPE CREDIAL INSURANCE & FINANCE, S.A."
Tel.0034-66-33-42.698
Email:( europecredial@netscape.net) Or europecredial@excite.com

VERIFICATION FORM
1. FULL NAMES: _______________________________
2. ADDRESS: __________________________________
3. SEX: _______________
4. AGE: ________
5. MARITAL STATUS: ___________________
6. OCCUPATION: _______________________
7. E-MAIL ADDRESS: ___________________
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER: ________________
9. LUCKY MAIN NUMBER: _______________
11.LUCKY STAR NUMBER: _______________
12.TICKET NUMBER: ___________________
13.REF / BATCH NUMBER: ______________
14.AMOUNT WON: ______________________
15.IDENTIFICATION NUMBER EITHER INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT OR DRIVING
LICENCE / NATIONAL ID CARD.