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.

Monday, March 20, 2006

FROM THE ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR.

From: nationalboard@virgilio.it <nationalboard@virgilio.it>
Date: 21-Mar-2006 06:32
Subject: FROM THE ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR.

FROM THE ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR.

Attn: Lottery Winner,

FINAL NOTICE NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to
inform you of the result of the dayzers.nl lottery programs held on
15th ofMarch 2006 with your e-mail address attached to one of the
winning ticket numbers. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum
pay out of USD1,000,000.00 (One Million Dollars Only)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system from our sponsors databases, includingover 50,000
companies and 150,000 individual E-mail addresses and names submitted
by our agents drawn from Asia, Africa, Europe, North And South America
and around the world.

To begin your claim, do file for the release of
your winning by contacting our accredited agent:

Foreign Transfer
Manager,
MR. GILL MARTINS
TELEPHONE :0031 647 416 459.
Email:
dayzernlclaim@netscape.net

YOUR WINNING DETAILS
Ref No:
GML/2551256003/11
Batch No: 14/0017/IPD
serial No: GMLA2-003
Ticket
No: 12099
Lucky No: 425448/7785.

NOTE: All winnings must be notarized
to complete the claim process; winners will be referred to a Foreign
Transfer Manager, to have their winnings notarized, all winners are to
cover the legal charges of the notarization of their winning in the
international court of justice.

Please note that you will be required
to pay for the issuance of your winning certificate and all winnings
must be claimed not later than 2nd of April 2006, after this date all
unclaimed winnings will be null
and void.

In Order to avoid
unnecessary delays and complications remember to quote your reference
number and batch
numbers in all correspondence. Furthermore, should
there be any change of address do inform our agents as
soon as
possible.

Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of
our promotional program.note: Anybody under the age
of 18 is
automatically disqualified.

YOUR FAITHFULLY,
THE ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR.
AUGUSTINA WHITE MANUEL.

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