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, August 01, 2006

FROM: MR. KENETH COLLINS,

From: drawinfo7@virgilio.it <drawinfo7@virgilio.it>
Date: 25-Jul-2006 20:34
Subject: FROM: MR. KENETH COLLINS,

FROM: MR. KENETH COLLINS,

E.U LOTTERY ONLINE.
LOTTERY AND GAMING
CORPORATION,

MONTH OF JULY LOTTERY,

WINNING NUMBER: FLO-06315369

OUR
DEAR WINNER,

YOU WON THE SUM OF (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND USD) FROM
E.U
LOTTERY AND GAMING CORPORATION. THE WINNING TICKET
WAS SELECTED FROM A
DATA BASE OF INTERNET E-MAIL
USERS, FROM WHICH YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS CAME
OUT AS THE
WINNING COUPON.

WE THEREBY CONTACT YOU TO CLAIM YOUR
WINNING AMOUNT
QUICKLY AS THIS IS A MONTHLY LOTTERY. FAILURE TO CLAIM
YOUR WIN WILL RESULT INTO THE REVERSION OF THE WINNING
SUM TO OUR
FOLLOWING MONTH LOTTERY. (EXPIRING DATE,
31ST OF JULY, 2006). PLEASE
CONTACT OUR APPROVED AGENT FOR YOUR REGION WITH YOUR WINNING NUMBER.

E.
U LOTTERY ONLINE AGENCY.
MR. PIETER VAN DIJK.
DIRECTOR OF WINNING
CLAIMS DEPARTMENT.
TEL: +31-633-826-008
E-MAIL: Olympiatrust@aim.com

REGARDS,

MR. KENETH COLLINS.
DIRECTOR OF E.U LOTTERY ONLINE.

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