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.

Saturday, May 20, 2006

KINDLY ACKNOWLEDGE!!!

From: itaca03@virgilio.it <itaca03@virgilio.it>
Date: 20-May-2006 19:57
Subject: KINDLY ACKNOWLEDGE!!!

20th MAY 2006

Dear Winner,
We are pleased to
announce you as third category winner of this years
annual Itaca
Award.
All winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of
50,000,000
international emails. Consequently,you have therefore been
approved for
a total pay out of 250,000.00euros(Twohundred and fifty
thousand
euros)only.
The following particulars were attached to your
payment order
(i)Lucky numbers:
8-67-44-23-69-33
(ii) Ticket
number:
22413965456-7344
(iii) Batch Number:
ECVC/15/768/TVHS
(iv)
Lottery Ref Number:
OSS/232-ILGI0412/05
and
(v) Serial Number: ES-
498-5780-18
Your security file number is ES9980490465SD. Please
contact the underlisted claims officer as soon as possible for the
immediate release of your winnings.
Name:Mr.Anthonio Rubio Correa
BRILA
FM INSURANCE COMPANY
Email:brilafm@netscape.net
TEL: +34- 653-037-
716.
After the acknowlegement of the receipt of this winning
notification
you would be sent a claims/Appraisal form to fill and
submit to
our lawyer who will carry out the legalisation of the
transfer of your
winning.Do not forget to quote your reference number
in all
correspondence.
Once again on behalf of all our staffs we are
wishing you a big
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yours sincerely,
Rita Bennett
For Claims Officer

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