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.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

ACKNOWLEDG RECEIPT

EURO MILLIONS INTERNATIONAL
175 WOOD HILL ROAD, BULK YARD, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
THE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF: OYL /26510460037/02
BATCH: 24/00319/EHI
Ticket Number: 023-0148-790-459

Dear,

Congratulations, you have just won yourself £1.5million in the
satellite software email lottery conducted by EURO MILLIONS in which
e-mail addresses are picked randomly by software powered by the
Internet. Your email address was amongst those chosen this quarter and
you are to contact our Financial Controller for Clearance. Here are the
contact info:

DISPATCH OFFICER:

Mr Gray Armstrong.
Email:grayarmstrong01@gmail.com
Tell:+447045761207
Send Us this Information
1. Full Names: _______________________
2. Address: __________________________
3. Age: _____________________________
4. Sex: _____________________________
5. Occupation: ________________________
6. Phone numbers: ______________________
7. Country: ___________________________
8.Mode Of Payment (A)Courier Delivery (B)Bank Wire

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Julia Kclose.
Promotions Manager.
EURO MILLIONS INTERNATIONAL

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