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, August 14, 2006

Congratulations, Your Email Address Won !!!

From: Netherlands staatsloterij <netstaatsloterij@aim.com>
Date: 14-Aug-2006 18:00
Subject: Congratulations, Your Email Address Won !!!
To: YoursAttention

ONLINE PROMOTIONS
STAATSLOTTERY (HEADQUARTERS)
The Nederlands Staatsloterij
Paleisstraat 25
2514 JA Den Haag
The Netherlands
www.staatsloterij.nl

FROM: STAATSLOTTERY NL. GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.

REF: PREMIER WEB BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual final draws of Staatslottery
International Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was
conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by
an advanced automated random
computer search from the Internet. No tickets were sold as a result of
bonuses gathered from ticket
winners to be offered to the entire public freely. After this
automated computer ballot, your e-mail address
emerged as one of five winners in the category "C" with the following numbers:

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Serial Number: 26371545-LNI/2014
Ticket Number: 54866235

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize
of EUR450.000.00.( FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each. This is from a total pay out of EUR
2.250.000.00(TWO MILLION, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY EURO ONLY).

Your prize awards have been insured with your e-mail address and will
be transferred to you upon
meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications,
validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your Prize winnings, you are advised
to contact our claims manager for
category "C" winners with your ref, serial and ticket numbers with the
information below:

Dr. Glens Berkly (claims manager)
The Nederlands Staatsloterij
Fax:0031-847286258
Phone: 0031-647988154
E-mail: glensstaatslot@aim.com

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed before 30th of August 2006. After
this date all unclaimed funds
would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference
information in all
correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the
general public especially your
reference and ticket numbers. (This is important in order to avoid
double claims as The Nederlands
Staatsloterij will not be responsible for a second claim due to
misappropriation of claims procedures in any
form).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of The Nederlands
Staatsloterij and affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Should there
be any change of address do not
hesitate to notify our claims manager immediately.

Thank you and congratulations on behalf of the staffs and members of
this lottery promotion program!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Kim Garcial (vice president)
STAATSLOTTERY (HEADQUARTERS)

NB: Do not reply to this email, send all enquiries and your claims
procedures via email or Fax to our claims
manager with details below:

Dr. Glens Berkly (claims manager)
Fax:0031-847286258
Phone: 0031-647988154
E-mail:glensstaatslot@aim.com

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