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, October 11, 2005

WINNING NOTIFICATION

Netherlands Lottery International Nl Company


107 Vanderloop 1902AB ,Amsterdam,


The Netherlands


WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY \"A\" WINNER


Dear Winner,


RE: LOTTO INTERNATIONAL NL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of Lotto International Netherlands programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold.After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category \"A\" with the following:


Ref Number: PC 390 ES 214


Batch Number: 26371545-LNI/2004


Ticket Number: PCP 002 871


You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of EUR1,500,000.00. (ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each from the total payout.


Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations,verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category \"A\" winners with the information below:


Mr. Donald Van Oliver


Department Director,


Netherlands Lottery International Nl Company


107 Vanderloop 1902AB ,Amsterdam,


The Netherlands


E-mail: yourclaims@walla.com


phone:+31-620-244-951


NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Thank you and congratulations!!!


Yours faithfully,


Mrs. Agatha DeBoer,


Games/Lottery Coordinator.


Lotto International Netherlands


http://www.lotto.nl


Lotto International Netherlands This email may contain information which is confidential and/or privileged. The information is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient,be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents is prohibited.If you have received this electronic transmission in error,please notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the material from your computer.

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