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 18, 2006

Winner

From: Toto Lottery <winner@toto.nl>
Date: 18-Jul-2006 18:46
Subject: Winner
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Toto Lottery
Laan van Hoornwijck 356
2212 DG Rijswijk
Amsterdam.Netherlands
www.toto.nl

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
Toto Lotto draw held on the 30th of June 2006.All 10 winning
Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international Emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as
category 2 Winners in this year's Annual Toto Lotto Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
(one million EUROS) only. The following particulars Are attached to your
lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-11
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: FL23112
(iv) The file Ref number: FL/04/5237900/NL

Please contact the under listed claims officer via email and/or phone as
soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings and also
send him the information requested below:

Mr.Paul Bryan
Tel-0031 644751015
Email- paulbryan2006@aim.com

1. NAME IN FULL:................................
2. ADDRESS:.....................................
3. NATIONALITY:.................................
4. AGE:.........................................
5. OCCUPATION:..................................
6. PHONE/FAX:...................................
7.COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE.........

N.B:

Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.

Winners are advice to keep this award confidential until prize are claimed to
avert incidence of
impersonation by unscrupulous elements. Once again on behalf of all our
staff,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Diana Cury
Promotions Manager
The Toto Lotto Company

The Toto Lotto Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft Corporation, the
Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell
Computers,Mackintosh and a Conglomeration of other international IT
companies.

The Toto lotto Internet Draw is held once in a year and is so organized to
encourage the use of The
Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that over 200
Million Euros are won annually in more than 150 countries worldwide.

We also encourage you to visit our website at www.toto.nl and Take your chance
to play and become
part of our annual winners. Millions are won on a yearly basis on one of the
world's most famous lotto
Service.

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