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, June 05, 2006

ATTENTION LUCKY WINNER !!!

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <final_lists14@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: 05-Jun-2006 03:53
Subject: ATTENTION LUCKY WINNER !!!

 
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
The National Lottery
10 Camelot Close,
Thamesmead,
London, L70 1NL,
United Kingdom.
P.O. Box 1010.
(Customer Services).
 
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE ONLINE COORDINATOR
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKES INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
 
AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION 
 
Ref  Number: UK/9420X2/68
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369 
 
 We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded final draws (#1068) of the United Kingdom National Lottery International Online Sweepstakes program held on saturday 13th may,2006 which is now available for claims.
 
 Your participation for this online lottery was selected from your Email Domain and your Email address luckily won a raffle ticket that entered you for the this raffle draw whose results has just been released.
 This online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet.
NOTE: NO TICKETS WERE SOLD.
 
 After the automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the Match 5 plus bonus category with the following winning informations:
 
WINNING INFORMATION
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369
Reference Number: UK/9420X2/68
 Ticket number: 56475600545188
File Number: KTU/9023118308/03
Serial Number: 5368/02
 
 You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £750,000 (Seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £16,500,000 shared amongst the (22) lucky winners in your winning category "Match 5 plus".
  Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be remitted  to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
 
 This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). Principals and employees of the UK National Lottery and its respective Parents, subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible.
 
CLAIMS PROCEDURES:
 It is our standard practice to allocate accredited agents for the processing of claims application. In other to claim your £750,000 (Seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling) prize winning, you are required to fill out the (VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM) below and send it to our under listed licensed and accredited Fiduciary agent via fax or email for proper legal verifications.
 
Accredited Fiduciary Agent: Mr Larry White.
Tel: (+44)702-401-3144
Fax: (+44) 870-479-6344
Email:  winningfiduciaryoffice02@yahoo.co.uk
 
VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM
(Personal Informations) :
Full Names:
Address:
Country.:
Telephone No:
Occupation.:
Company.:
Annual Income:
Amount Won:
Age.:
Email Address:
Gender.:
Nationality.:
 
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims process, therefore you have limited time to claim your winnings.  Failure to claim your winning within the stipulated time frame will lead to the forfeiture of your winnings  after which your winning funds will be added to next winning draws. You are therefore advice to complete the VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM and send it  immediately to our accredited Fiduciary agent through email or fax for prompt collection of your winning funds.
 
(b) Due to our security measures to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking advantage of the situation by other participants or impersonators, you are advised to keep your winning details of this award personal/confidential from any third party till your claims have been processed and your funds remitted to you, as any discrepancies resulting from a breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will be covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of secrecy taken on employment. 
 
 Accept my hearty congratulations once again on behalf of the staffs and members of the UK national Lottery Online Sweepstakes International program !!!
 
Yours faithfully,
Mr Richard K. Lloyd
Online coordinator for The UK National Lottery
Sweepstakes International Program.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Confidentiality Notice:
   Please note that this email, and any files that may be attached to it,is/are confidential and is/are intended for the sole use of the individual(s) or entity(ies) to which it/they is/are addressed. Any use,distribution,copying or disclosure by any other person or entity is strictly prohibited under applicable law( s).
  Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to official business of NATIONAL LOTTERY and insurance shall be understood to be neither given nor endorsed by NATIONAL LOTTERY finance and insurance when addressed to concern finance and insurance clients; and any information contained in this email is subject to the terms and conditions of the governing client's contract(s).
 
THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
COPYRIGHT © 1994-2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED





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