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, October 29, 2007

CONTACT MR.FRED MARTEN FOR YOUR AWARD

RE: YOUR UNCLAIMED PRIZE FROM U.K LOTTO AWARD

UNITED KINGDOM LOTTO
20 Craven Park,
E3 10NW,
Harlesden London,
United Kingdom.

REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L
BATCH: 4583JL/WIN

We the U.K LOTTO  wish to Inform you that your Lottery winning of
£1.000.000 (One Million Pounds Sterling) which you won on the U.K LOTTO
August 2007 Award has been returned to us by our Lotto claims agent as
unclaimed prize after their initial letter to your email address for your
award claim was not successful.

Note that all participants in this program were selected randomly through
our Computer Ballot System, drawn from 85.000.000 internet users from all
search engines. Your e-mail address was picked by the automated Computer
Ballot System, which was programmed for this random selection.

Your E-mail address attached to WINNER NUMBER 4, with serial Number:
7741137002 and drew the lucky numbers: 23-76-06-54-42-100, Ref
No.UKL/56B-672GH/L and Batch No: 4583JL/WIN which consequently won in the
3rd lottery category. You have therefore been approved for lump sum pay of
£1.000.000(One Million Pounds Sterling) credited to file REF NO:
UKL/56B-672GH/L. This is from the total prize money of £8,800,000.00 which
is to be shared among the international lucky winners in this category.

These Draws are commemorative and as such special to encourage the use of
Computers and Internet worldwide.

No Ticket was sold for these Lottery award.

Having returned your unclaimed award funds back to our treasury by our
Lotto claims agent, we write to officially give you the last chance to claim
your award. We advise you to contact our Claims Agent immediately upon
receipt of this message by means of email or phone for more information
concerning the verification, processing and payment of the above prize to
you.
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MR. FRED MARTEN
EURO GOLDS BUREAU
Email: eurogolds@netscape.net
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You are hereby advise to keep your winning information confidential from
the public, until you have received your cash prize. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming and the act of hacking people off
their prizes. Be advised to furnish him with the followings upon your
contact with him.
1. Reference No:
2. Batch No:
3. Your Name:
4. Age:
5. Address:
6. Telephone/Number(s)
7. Occupation
8. Sex.
9. Nationality.
Thanks.

Yours Faithfully,

Mr.John Hestley
Coordinator(Prize Award Dept.)

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