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.

Sunday, February 26, 2006

RECONFIRMED AWARDS ! ! !

From: maria_djplnl@virgilio.it <maria_djplnl@virgilio.it>
Date: 26-Feb-2006 14:34
Subject: RECONFIRMED AWARDS ! ! !

RECONFIRMED AWARDS ! ! !

PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD
DEPARTMENT
DEAR SIR/MADAM,

We are pleased to notify you of the
release today as dated of the De Jackpot Straat/International
Promotions programs held on the 19th day of Febuary 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 Mega jackpot Straat of 1.3 Billion International.

You/Your Company, attached to:
TICKET No: 715 – 4 – 7206-NL,
SERIAL
No: 39- 02 – DNL drew the
LUCKY No: 04, 07, 29, 30, 42, 44, 39 and
REFERENCE No: ASL- WF97 – 5G3
BATCH No: OX9T – 7T5T – D3N

As a category B winner, you have been
selected by computer balloting system where only email addresses are
oughted, from a total numbers of 30,000 email addresses drawn from all
over the globe. After an automated computer ballot of our International
Promotions Program consequently won in the second Category. You have
therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 1,850,000.00 Euros in
cash, which is the winning payout for second categories winners. This
is from the total prize money of 16,000,000.00 Euros shared among the
eight international winners in the SECOND category.
CONGRATULATIONS
! ! !

You are to contact the (VERIFICATION
DEPARTMENT) for immediate remittance; Your E-mail address won the lucky
number. To avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we request
that you keep this award strictly from public notice until the entire
process of transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds
remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this
program.
We also wish to bring to your notice our End of Year (2006)
high stakes where you stand a chance of winning up to 13 million Euros,
we hope that with a part of your prize you will participate and to
begin your claims process please contact your claims agent. Customer
Service Unit,

DE JACKPOT STRAAT NETHERLANDS.
TEL: +31-61-973-4742,
FAX: +31-84-744-3245.
Email: jackpotclaims@netscape.net
CONTACT
PERSON: MARCO VAN DAMN (MR)
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.

Very Truly Yours,
MARIA LUXEMBORG (Dr),
DE JACKPOT STRAAT N.V.
VAN EEGHENSTRAAT 70,
AMSTERDAM, THE
NETHERLANDS.

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