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, June 07, 2006

CONTACT MR. JOSE BONO

From: SWEEPSTAKES OFFICE <laprimitivaspain@netscape.net>
Date: 08-Jun-2006 22:43
Subject: CONTACT MR. JOSE BONO
To: ideceive@gmail.com

SWEEPSTAKE PROMOTION.
CALLE/ ACALA EL-BUENO,
54420 1169 MADRID-SPAIN

FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF: LP/26510460037/02 BATCH: 24/00319/IPD

SUB: AWARD WINNING NOTIFICATION

WE ARE PLEASED TO INFORM YOU OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNERS OF
LOTTERIA PRIMITIVA SWEEPSTAKES/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS YOUR E-MAIL
ATTACHED TO TICKET NO: 00-1218-90 SERIAL NO:134734
LUCKY NO: 7-12-26-31-34-43 ( DE 6 ) WHICH CONSEQUENTLY WON THE LOTTERY IN
THE DE6 CATEGORY. THIS PROGRAM WAS HELD ON 29TH-05 - 2006.YOU HAVE
THEREFORE BEEN APPROVED FOR A LUMP SUM PAYOUT OF €568,786.33 CENT (FIVE
HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDREDAND
EIGHTY SIX EUROS THIRTY THREE CENTS ONLY ) CASH CREDITED TO FILE
REFERENCE NO:LP/183031333540.

THIS IS FROM THE TOTAL PRICE MONEY OF €11,511,500.00 EUROS SHARED AMONG
LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL WINNERS IN ALL CATEGORIES.

ALL PARTICIPANTS WERE SELECTED THROUGH COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTERM DRAWN
FROM 34,000 E-MAIL FROM ASIA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, EUROPE AND NORTH
AMERICA AS PART OF OUR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAM WHICH WE
CONDUCT ONCE EVERY YEAR.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

YOUR FUND IS NOW DEPOSITED WITH A BANK INSURED TO YOUR NAME. DUE TO
MIXED UP OF SOME NUMBERS AND NAMES, WE ASK THAT YOU KEEP THIS AWARD
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL FROM PUBLIC NOTICE UNTIL YOUR CLAIM HAS BEEN
PROCESSED AND YOUR MONEY REMITTED TO YOUR ACCOUNT. THIS IS PART OF OUR
SECURITY ADVICE TO AVOID DOUBLE CLAIMING OR UNSCRUPULOUS ACTS BY
PARTICIPANTS OF THIS PROGRAM.

TOCLAIM YOUR PRIZE CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT BEING OUR OPERATION
MANAGER WITH THIS INFORMATIONS BELOW:
CONTACT PERSON : MR. JOSE BONO LOTTERIA PRIMITIVA OPERATIONS MANAGER.

20 - 24 CALLE VANDARAS S.A MADRID SPAIN.
E.MAIL: agentjosebono@caramail.com OR laprimitiva2000@yahoo.es
TEL: + 34-687-062-006

FOR THE PROCESSING AND REMITTANCE OF YOUR PRIZE MONEY TO ANY
DESIGNATED ACCOUNT OF YOUR CHOICE. REMEMBER ALL PRIZE MONEY MUST BE
CLAIMED NOT LATER THAN 16 DAYS.

AFTER THIS DATE ALL FUNDS WILL BE RETURNED TO THE MINISTRY AS UNCLAIMED PRIZE.

NOTE: IN ORDER TO AVOID UNNECESSARY DELAYS AND COMPLICATIONS, PLEASE
REMEMBER TO QUOTE YOUR REFERANCE AND BATCH NUMBERS INCLUDING YOUR
(CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER) IN EVERY CORRESPONDENCE WITH YOUR AGENT.

FURTHER, SHOULD THERE BE ANY CHANGE OF ADDRESS DO INFORM YOUR CLAIMS
AGENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

THIS LOTTERY WAS PROMOTED AND SPONSORED BY ASSOCIATION OF SOFTWARE
PRODUCERS IN SPAIN.CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN FROM ALL MEMBERS OF OUR
STAFF AND THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF OUR PROMOTIONS PROGRAM.

BEST REGARDS,
MRS. SANDRA ANNA GOMEZ
(VICE PRESIDENT)
(LOTTERIA PRIMITIVA SWEEPSTAKES) .

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