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, April 12, 2006

11/04/2006:LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL CYBERLOTTO RESULTS!!

From: PROMOTION COORDINATOR <christyivan_loteryuk@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 12-Apr-2006 07:34
Subject: 11/04/2006:LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL CYBERLOTTO RESULTS!!
To: ideceive@gmail.com

I have a new email address!
You can now email me at: christyivan_loteryuk@yahoo.co.uk

FROM:PROMOTION DEPARTMENT OF LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL.

LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,

LUKI BUILDING,

80 King William Street,

London EC4R 9AN,

United Kingdom.

Government Accredited Licensed Lottery Promoters

ATTN: WINNER,

We happily announce to you the draw of the LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,
Online Program held on 1-Jan-2006.

Your email address attached to reference Number:208,ZX,11,663/UK with
Ticket Number: 99/bnk/533. which subsequently won you one of the
Jackpot cash prizes.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£2,500,000.00(Two Million Five Hundred housand Great Britain Pounds)
in cash credited to file L/UK/010/71/2/33 All participants for the
online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through
a computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.

A random number generator using a proprietary random number generation
algorithm will select exactly 6 reference numbers from the range 1-24
with ticket winning number from the range 1-24 To file for your claim,
please FORWARD a copy of this email to our claims director via contact
information below;

MR. BILLY BRADFIELD,

CLAIMS DIRECTOR,

CLAIMS DEPARTMENT,

LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,

LUKI BUILDING,

80 King William Street,

London EC4R 9AN,

United Kingdom.

Tel: +44 7031872050

Fax: +44 8709124466

Email: bradfieldbilly_lotteryukinter@yahoo.co.uk

Congratulation once again from me, and entire members of staff of the
LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL and it is our hope that you participate in
any of our international programs in the nearest future.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,

CHRISTY IVAN,

PROMOTION DEPARTMENT,

LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL,

LUKI BUILDING,

80 King William Street,

London EC4R 9AN,

United Kingdom.

postmaster@thelotteryukinternational.8m.net

PLEASE NOTE:

YOU ARE TO KEEP ALL LOTTERY INFORMATIONS FROM PUBLIC AS WE WILL NOT
ENTERTAIN CASES OF MULTIPLE CLAIMS PROCESSING OR COMPROMISE THE
PRIVACY AND SECURITY OF ALL OUR WINNER.THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE DATA
PROTECTION ACT OF THE LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL.

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DISCLAIMER & CONFIDENTIALITY:

The information contained in this communication including any
attachments is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity
to whom it is addressed and others authorized to receive it. It may
contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not
the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure,
unauthorized use, copying, distribution or taking any action in
reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited
and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error,
please notify us immediately by responding to this email and then
delete it from your system.

LOTTERY UK INTERNATIONAL is neither liable for the proper and complete
transmission of the information contained in this communication nor
for any delay in its receipt.

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- PROMOTION COORDINATOR

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