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, July 11, 2006

CONTACT YOUR FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER,

From: v.donk@bankgiroloterij <v.donk@virgilio.it>
Date: 11-Jul-2006 12:34
Subject: CONTACT YOUR FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER,

CONTACT YOUR FOREIGN TRANSFER MANAGER,
MR.ROBIN TARLOY.
BANK GIRO
LOTERIJ INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTION & PRIZE AWARD DEPT
AMSTERDAM,THE
NETHERLANDS.
OUR REF: DLIYK/72283944/769

Dear Winner,

Following
official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online
Sweepstakes organized by the Bank giro loterij corporation, the
Slidecircuir award and the Heineken prizes in conjunction with the
foundation for the promotion of software products,(F.P.S.), held in The
Netherlands,wherein your electronics email address emerged as one of
the online winning email in the 1st category and therefore attracted a
cash award of 1,000,000 Euros (One million Euros only),

We write to
officially notify you of this award and to advise you to
contact the
processing office immediately upon receipt of this message
for more
information concerning the verification, processing and
eventual
payment of the above prize to you. It is important to note that
your
award information was released today with the following particulars
attached to it.

REFERENCE NUMBER:NGL/006194/760
BATCH NumBER:
BCC04/N456-32
SERIAL NUMBER: 00927928/06

Please contact the claim
agent to facilitate the release of your prize,
FOREIGN TRANSFER
MANAGER
MR. ROBIN TARLOY.
BANK GIRO LOTERIJ SECURITY DEPARTMENT.
TEL:
+31-623-422-118.
TEL:+31-204-000-498.
FAX:+31-84-724-2053.
EMAIL;
infbankgirolott@aim.com

You are expected to provide the following
details below to your claims
agent:
1) BATCH AND REFERENCE NUMBERS
2)
FULL NAMES
3) AGE
4) OCCUPATION
5) MAILING ADDRESS
6) PHONES AND FAX
NUMBERS
7) EMAIL ADDRESS
8) NATIONALITY

The Bank giro loterij Awards
is sponsored by a consortium of software
promotion companies. The
Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers,
Microsoft and other international
companies.
The Bank giro loterij Internet draw is held periodically
and
is so organized to encourage the use of the Internet and promote
computer literacy worldwide.We are proud to say that over 20 Million
Euro are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.
Remember,
all winning must be claimed not later than 20th of July, 2006.
Please
note,in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,
remember
to quote your reference number and batch number in all
correspondence.

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

yours
Sincerely,

MRS VONA VAN DONK.
(International Co-ordinator)

The
information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to
whom or which it is addressed.Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying
is
strictly prohibited. The sender accepts no liability for the
improper
transmission of this communication nor for any delay in its
receipt

*************************Bank
giroloterij***********************

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