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, April 03, 2006

CONRACT MR. RICHARD SMITH.

From: PRIME LOTTERY <primelotto2006@aim.com>
Date: 04-Apr-2006 07:28
Subject: CONRACT MR. RICHARD SMITH.
To: UndisclosedRecipients

FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.
NETHERLANDS PRIME LOTTERY.

ATTN: Lucky Winner,

CONGRATULATION!!!

AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual Final draws of Prime lottery
International Netherlands programs.

The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of
40,000 E-mail addresses of
individuals and corporate bodies from Africa, America, Asia,
Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and
New Zealand and 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 the Lucky
winners in the category "A" with the following:

Serial No: 5368/06
Batch No: 074/05/ZY345
Ref No: Netherland/9420X2/70
Winning Ticket Number:56475612545

You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize
of €2,000.000.00(Two Million Euros)
this is from the total prize money of €80,000,000.00 shared between 40
international winners in the First
category. Your prize awards have 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 Fiduciary
Agent for Category "A" winners with the information below:

Mr.Richard Smith,
Netherlands Prime Lottery International,
Email:primelottoclaim@AIM.COM
Tel: +31-611-405-888
Fax: +31-847-376-880

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 10 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 serial and ticket
numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of the affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to
participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Robert Hans,
Games/Lottery Coordinator.

N.B: ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION.PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS.CONTACT YOUR
FIDUCIARY AGENT.(TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY)BE INFORMED THAT YOU MUST MAKE
ALL CORRESPONDECE WITH YOUR WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS, NO OTHER E-MAIL ADDRESS
WILL BE ENTERTAINED.

Copyright 1994-2006 The Prime Lottery Inc.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service – Guideline
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