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.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

WINNING NOTIFICATION

THE UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
P O BOX 1010
LIVERPOOL, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref No: UK/9420X2/68
Batch No: 074/05/ZY369
Date:23-11-2007

             WINNING NOTIFICATION

    We happily announce to you the draw
(#1198) of the UK
INTERNATIONALLOTTERY,online Sweepstakes
International
program held on Sat 17th November
2007.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number:56475600545
188 withSerial number 5368/06 drew the lucky
numbers:
08-17-33-41-43-45 (bonusno.37), which
subsequently won you
the lottery in the 2nd category i.e match5 plus
bonus. You
have therefore been approved to claim a total
sum of
£250,000 (Two hundred and fifty thousand
pounds
sterlings) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.
This is from a total cash prize of £250.000
pounds shared
amongst the (7)lucky winners in this category
i.e Match 5
plus bonus. All participantsfor the online version
were
selected randomly from World Wide Web sites
through computer draw system and extracted
from over
100,000unions,associations, and corporate
bodies that are
listed online. However, no
tickets were sold but all email addresses were
assigned to
differentticketnumbers for representation and
privacy and
the selection process wascarried out through
random
selection in our computerized email
selection machine (TOPAZ).
This promotion takes place weekly. Please note
that your
lucky winningnumber falls within our European
booklet
representative office in Europe as indicated in
your play
coupon. In view of this, your £250,000 (Two
hundred and
fifty thousand pounds sterlings)) would be
released to you
by any of ourpayment offices in Europe. For
security
reasons, you are advised to keepyour winning
information
confidential till your claims is processed and
your money
remitted to you in whatever manner you deem
fit to
claimyour prize.

To file for your claim, please contact our
Oversea claims
agent.Fudiciary Agent: Mr Terry Wilson
Official Email:claimsagent_terry80@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+447045751852

Endeavour to email your full names,winning
numbers,telephone and fax
numbers immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Brain Hunt
Online coordinator for THE UK
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program

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