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, April 04, 2006

GOOD INFORMATION

From: globalwinsnld <globalwinsnld.com@consulcredit.it>
Date: 04-Apr-2006 12:02
Subject: GOOD INFORMATION
To: globalwinsnld@zensearch.com

GLOBAL LOTTERY PROMOS,
406 BURY NEW ROAD
WHITEFIELD,
MANCHESTER M45 7SX
U.K.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF NO: MELI-T/17-F044262312

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 6 lucky winners in the
GLOBAL LOTTERY PROMOTIONS held on 1 st. of January 2006. All 6 winning
addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 40,000 international
emails. Your email address emerged alongside 5 others as
a 3rd category winner in this month's draw.

Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
600,000 Pounds (Six Hundred Thousand pounds) only. The following
particulars are attached to your lottery payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 990-11-815-37-10-83
(ii) Email ticket number: 901-0148-790-691
(iii) Lotto Batch No. 13/FFP/LDL/037
(IV) File REF NO: MELI-T/17-F044262312

Please contact the under listed claims officer as soon as possible for
the immediate release of your winnings:

CONTACT AGENCY:
MR. JONES SMITH AND
ASSOCIATE LTD U.K,
20 Lausanne Road London,
SW2 3JB ENGLAND.U.K
Email: promosprivateinfor@london.com
Tel: +44-703-192-1443
Fax:+44-870-130-4270

You are to provide the claim agent with the under listed information as
soon as possible so that he can process your claims:

1. Full names:

2. Phone number:

3. Fax number:

4. Nationality:

5. Present Location:

6. Email address:

7. Date of birth:

Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Magdaline Kane.
LOTTERY COORDINATOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS.
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, UK.
406 BURY NEW ROAD WHITEFIELD,
MANCHESTER M45 7SX
U.K.

N.B:
1. All claims are nullified after 20 working days from today.
2. Your Ref number must be in all your mails with the claims officer.
3. Do inform the claims officer of any change of names or addresses.
4. Please do not reply to this email. Contact your claims agent.

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