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.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Attn: Sir/Madam.

Attn: Sir/Madam.
This is to inform you that your email address has won
EUR 925,000:00 (Nine Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand Euro Only) in the
NETHERLANDS STAATSLOTERIJ sponsored by consortium of software promotion
companies.

For further Clarification and procedure, please Contact
Miller Green (Dr.) on the details below for the for the release of your
winning funds,

.......................................................
Officer in Charge: Miller Green (Dr.)
Tel: +31-620-048924
Fax: +31-84-
738-6694
Email:documentationdep@luckymail.com
.........................................................

Winning
Details
Ref No: STLI/88-5/0007
E-Ticket No: 011-9085555(03-26)
Prize No.
(Match 3): 106000009
Lucky No: 96543/5876

Provide them with the
information below:
(1).Full Name:
(2).Contact Address
(3).Tel/Fax No:

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs.Joana Hans
Sweepstakes Coordinator
Visit our
official website at http://www.staatsloterij.nl
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