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, October 10, 2006

YOU ARE OUR WINNER.....CONGRATULATIONS!!!

From: SWISS LOTTO <swisslottoagent@swisslotto.ch>
Date: 10-Oct-2006 18:06
Subject: YOU ARE OUR WINNER.....CONGRATULATIONS!!!
To: ideceive@gmail.com


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SWISS LOTTO UK.

P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM

https://www.swisslotto.ch

CONGRATULATIONS!!!.....YOU HAVE WON &#8364;750,000 Euros

You have have been awarded &#8364;750,000 Euros in the SWISS-LOTTO
Satellite software email lottery in which e-mail addresses are picked
Randomly by software powered by the Internet through the worldwide
website.

Your email address was amongst those chosen this year for the SWISS
LOTTO Satellite lottery. And this promo is proudly sponsored by the
SWISS-LOTTO UK organization.

You can log on to our website for more information concerning our
entire lottery promo https://www.swisslotto.ch .

Your email address,attached to Ref number 5, 7, 14, 17,18, 43 with
Serial number 1979-12 drew the lucky Numbers 10, and consequently won
the lottery in the "A" Category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of &#8364;750,000 Euros

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
Booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon.

In View of this, your &#8364;750,000 Euros will be released to you by
our security firm in Europe. Our European agent will immediately
commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon
as you contact them.

All participants Were selected randomly from World Wide Web site
through computer draw System and extracted from over 300,000 companies
and individual email addresses.

This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims
is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you
deem fit to Claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary
measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program
by some unscrupulous elements.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:

Mr. Mark Wright

Email:swisslottoclaimsagent06@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: +44 704 010 1519

Provide him with the information below:

1.Name:

2.Address:

3.Marital Status:

4.Occupation:

5.Age:

6.Sex:

7.Nationality:

8.Country Of Residence:

9.Telephone Number:

10.Fax Number:

11.Draw Number above:

This information facilitate the due process of the release of winnings
avoid unnecessary delays and complications in the processing of your
winnings.

Always remember to quote your Reference / serial number in any
correspondences with us or our Designated agent.

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of This program
and Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Sincerely,

Mark Wright

Fiduciary Agent

SWISS LOTTO UK.

P O Box 1010

Liverpool, L70 1NL

UNITED KINGDOM

https://www.swisslotto.ch

N:B - PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CORRESPONDENT WILL BE TEMPORARILY BE VIA
EMAIL UNTIL 24 HOURS BEFORE PAY-OUT THEN YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED VIA
TELEPHONE

Sunday, October 08, 2006

OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION

From: DR. ROBERT SANCHEZ <spanisheumillion@aim.com>
Date: 08-Oct-2006 22:01
Subject: OFFICIAL WINNING NOTIFICATION


FROM: INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REFERENCE: 67/80/IPD
BATCH: EGGS-541-623-782:
RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL NOTICE
Sir/Madam
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Euro millions
Spanish Lottery Winners International E-mail programs held on the 29TH
OF SEPTEMBER,2006 and result where release on the 5TH OCTOBER,2006.
Your E-mail address attached to ticket number 653-908-321-675 with
serial main number 345-790-241-671 drew lucky star numbers
34-32-90-43-32 which consequently won in the 2ND category, you have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1.000.000.00
Euro.(One Million Euro).
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your
winning information confidential until your claims has been processed
and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol
to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some
participants. All participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from over 100,000 company and 50,000,000 individual email
addresses and names from all over the world.
This lottery was promoted and sponsored by Spanish European Lottery
board in order to enhance and promote the use of Internet Explorer
Users and Microsoft-wares around the globe. This promotional program
takes place every three year. We hope with part of your winning you
will take part in our end of year 50 million Euro International
lottery.
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
DR.ROBERT SANCHEZ
SANCHEZ SECURITY COMPANY ESPAرA
TEL: +34-696-071-389
Email: infosanchezsc@aim.com OR infosanchezsec@myway.com
Remember, all winning must be claimed not later than one month, After
this date all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake.
Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications
please remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in
all correspondence. Furthermore, should there be any change of address
do inform our agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified.
Sincerely yours,
MRS,COMFORT JOSE
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This message is confidential. It may also be privileged or otherwise
protected by work product immunity or other legal rules. If you have
received it please let us know by reply it from your system; you
should not copy it or disclose its contents to anyone. All messages
sent to and from Sanchez Security Company Espaٌa may be monitored to
ensure compliance with internal policies and to protect your winning
from the Euro Million Spanish Lottery Award Promotion. The contents of
any email addressed to our clients are subject to our usual terms of
business; anything which does not relate to the official business of
the firm is neither given nor endorsed by it.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

From: UK NATIONAL LOTTERIES <info_uklotteries@o2.pl>
Date: 08-Oct-2006 04:28
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


The Marina Offices,

St Peters Yacht Basin,

Newcastle upon Tyne,

NE6 1HX England

(Customer Services)


The draw of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY. online Sweepstakes International
Program held on 29th April 2006, won you the Lottery in the JACKPOT Bonus.
The amount you luckily won is yet to be claimed and you are getting the
FINAL notification as regards this Email.


NOTE: We had to wait for all Winners who purchased the Lottery Ticket(s)
to claim their prizes before notifying you who won *Online* even without
your knowledge. This is the reason we have not notified you of your
winnings before now.


Your e-mail address was attached to the following winning numbers: 4, 10,
23, 36, 37,49, By our computer draw system, which subsequently won you the
lottery in the Email Lottery (e-Lottery).

Because your email was attached to our winning numbers, you are QUALIFIED
as one of the draw winners. You have therefore been approved to claim: a
total sum of 1,550,000.00 (ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
POUNDS STERLING) in CASH credited to file number ; KTU/9023118308/03. and
Draw Number: 1080.01.

The total cash prize was shared amongst (5) lucky winners in this category
i.e Email Lottery (e-Lottery)

All participants for the Email Lottery (e-LotteryŽ) were selected
randomly from World Wide Web sites (w.w.w.) through our Email Lottery
Draw System (E.L.D.S) and extracted from over 100,000 unions,
associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online.


This Lottery programme is part of the Country's Programme to fund for the
Olympic Games in 2012 (The 1.5bn Olympic lottery puzzle).
Other sums to be raised from the National Lottery would be from Ticket
sales, Marketing, Sponsorship and the sale of Television rights.


Note: You did not purchase any Ticket(s) for this winning, your email was
selected by our E.L.D.S.(e-Lottery) randomly.


Your 1,550,000.00 will be released to you by Fuciary agent(The west Africa
Agency)Mr Nicholas Poley

Our Africa agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact them.


For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information
confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to
you in your country.

This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.


To file for your claim, kindly contact our fiduciary agent with the
information below:

Name: Nicholas Poley
Email: n_poley@outgun.com,n_poley@o2.pl, nicho_poley@k.ro, nicho_poley@k.ro

YOUR FULL NAMES:
YOUR WINNING NUMBERS:
YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS:
YOUR AGE:
YOUR COUNTRY:
LANGUAGE:
YOUR OCCUPATION:
COMPLETE BANKING INFORMATIONS:

Please endeavor to contact Mr. Nicholas Poley with the required information
as soon as possible.You can go to our online result site to confirm the
value of your winnings :- http://www.national
lottery.co.uk/player/information.do?info=unclaimedprizes
ONCE YOU VISIT THE ABOVE SITE, CHECK FOR YOUR WINNING DATE AND NUMBER.

Congratulations from me and members of staff of THE NATIONAL LOTTERY.
Yours faithfully,

Darryn Clarke(Mrs)
Online coordinator
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

Sweepstakes International Program As Copyright 2006
Do not reply this E-mail, contact our fiduciary agent with the above
email------

Friday, October 06, 2006

NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

From: Margaret Ferguson <powerballottery7@mac.com>
Date: 06-Oct-2006 14:36
Subject: NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!


NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
West London,
43 North End Road,
West Kensington, London W14 8SZ
Lucky Winner, NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
POWERBALL EURO E-MAIL INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
BATCH NO: PTP/31211214257/190888/2202
REF. NO: PTP/21449267220/255100//2202

WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL
NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY BALLOT
INTERNATIONAL/WORLD GAMING BOARD.Your name attached to ticket number
219028657434 with Serial number 918735625 drew the lucky numbers of
21-70-81-82-99,which consequently won the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payment of
1,000,000.00euros only, which is deposited with the UnitedKingdom
Clearing house in your favor as beneficiary and covered with HIGH
INSURANCE POLICY. It is important that you keep your winning
confidential to avoid people garneringyour information and
subsequently making claim with your winning paraphernalia
information's, POWERBALL EURO E-MAILINTERNATIONAL will decline payment
if such irregularity occurs.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and
3,000,000.00 individual email addresses and names from all over the
world. To begin your lottery claim, please contact our agent below
that have been appointed forthe processing of your claim with your
contact telephoneand fax number to begin the processing of your
payment.

ELIGIBILITY:
This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet and is
open to all persons from age 18 years and above with a valid email
address and who live in any of the aforementioned countries.This
promotion is void in all other countries and is also void where
prohibited.Principals and employees of POWERBALL EURO E-MAIL
INTERNATIONAL Promos and its respective Parents, subsidiaries and
their immediate families are not eligible.

CLAIMS PROCEDURES:
It is our standard practice to allocate accredited agents for the
processing of claims application. It is even more imperative for
overseas winners. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised as a
matter of urgency, to contact the under listed licensed and accredited
claims agent for the processing of your prize awards winning. Please
contact the clearing house (through your claims agent only) the body
assigned with the verification of all emergent winner. Therefore all
protocols laid down by them must be followed to facilitate your
claims;

CONTACT NAME: ANDREW GORDON
CITY/ COUNTRY: LONDON, ENGLAND.
TELEPHONE: +4470 1112 1986
FAX: 44-87-1715-2472
EMAIL: powerballofficer324@yahoo.com.hk

(1) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and
unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions
of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your
prize awards winning.
(2) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning
details very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a
breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will be
covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of
secrecy taken on employment.

Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part
of our Promotions program.
Sincerely,
Margaret Ferguson
Co-coordinator.
NB: PLEASE SEE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR REF AND BATCH NUMBERS IN YOUR
Correspondence TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Your Ref: NL-OSA/04VS/0604/UK

From: OSA - UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <camelotfinancia@excite.com>
Date: 5 Oct 2006 21:37:49 -0000
Subject: Re:Your Ref: NL-OSA/04VS/0604/UK
To: ideceive@gmail.com


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OSA - UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

(OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENTS)

FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT

Batch Number: 06/0022/N01

Winning Numbers: 20-27-41- 42-29

Grand Prize Winning: GBP 1, 022,000.00

Our Ref: NL-OSA/6208/041.VOL.2/UK

Your Ref: NL-OSA/04VS/0604/UK

RE: WINNING NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, of winners of
the OSA UK NATIONAL LOTTERY, UK INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS held on October
2nd, 2006. Please be inform that all participants in this Lottery
Program have been selected randomly through a computer Ballot System
drawn from over 2,000,000 Companies and 30,000,000 individual email
addresses worldwide from search engines and web sites as part of our
international promotions program conducted annually to encourage
prospective overseas entries. Your email address attached to ticket
number 27 511 465 238, with serial number 088-6589 drew the lucky
numbers 20-27-41-42-29, and consequently won the lottery in the 2nd
category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
GBP1, 022,000.00(One Million, and Twenty-two Thousand pounds only) in
cash.

CONGRATULATIONS!

This promotional program takes place every year. Your fund is now
deposited with a Private Investment Bank in Europe bonded and insured
under a comprehensive insurance policy in your name. Due to the mix up
of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly
from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money
remitted to your account. This is part of our security arrangement to
avoid diversion of claims, double claims or unscrupulous acts by
participants of this program. We hope with a part of you prize, you
will participate in our end of year high stakes GPB12million
International Lottery.

Remember that you must contact your claim agent not later than October
30th, 2006. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed.
To begin your claims, you are advised on final notice and as a matter
of urgency, to contact our licensed and accredited claim agent for
Overseas Lucky Winners for the processing of your prize awards winning
and payment to your designated bank account after all statutory
obligations have been concluded satisfactorily.

Therefore all processes laid down by them must be followed t o
facilitate your claims.

Please contact:

Mr. Timothy J. Willis,

Email: camelotfinancia@excite.com

Camelot Financial-4all Reconciliation Inc.,

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

(a) Being an overseas lucky winner, you constitute entrant's full and
unconditional agreement to and acceptance to comply with the terms and
conditions of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment
of your grand prize awards winning.

(b) Our staffs are sworn to secrecy, so you will be the only one to
know what you have won hence, this notification via this medium
(EMAIL) is to avoid interception of official letters.

(c) By this grand prize awards winning, you acknowledge your
understanding and acceptance to be added to our lottery master player
database.

(d)By this grand prize awards winning, you agree to receive our
periodic mailings which will include, but are not limited to:
Newsletters, Invitations to Play, Announcements for other Lottery
Games and Offers we feel would be of interest to our master player.

(e) By this grand prize awards winning, you understand that you have
the right to unsubscribe from any such mailing list which
automatically disqualifies you from subsequent lottery entries.
Removal instructions are on every mailing.

(f) Finally, we hereby do solemnly guarantee to maintain the privacy
of our master players/lucky winners database and shall not make
available for sale, rent, lease or misuse any information about our
players/lucky winners.

Hence, our staffs are sworn to secrecy thereby ensuring adequate
security of personal information provided by our players/lucky
winners. In conclusion therefore, you are to take cognisance of the
limited time frame for claims processing and payment of your grand
prize award winning hence, this promotional programme prize awards is
for a stipulated period of ! time and therefore, be advised on final
notice to begin your claims immediately hence, all prizes awards must
be claimed and disbursed within the stipulated period tagged "End of
Claim" date as elapse of this date will authorised funds withholding
for redirection to Organisation Account as abandoned/unclaimed without
notice. Find all other relevant winning lottery Information below:

Your Ref: NL-OSA/04VS/0604/UK,

Batch Number: 06/0022/N01,

Winning Numbers: 20-27-41-42-29

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice. In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications, please quote your reference and batch numbers in every
one of your correspondences with your claim agent. Furthermore, should
there be any change of your address, do inform your claims agent as
soon as possible.

Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part
of our Promotions program. On this note therefore, we congratulate you
for your grand prize awards winning and welcome you in our subsequent
lottery entries. As always, we remain at your complete disposal.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Mary-Ann Rhodes

Promotion Coordinator,

International Promotions Department,

OSA - UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

(OVERSEAS SUBSCRIBERS AGENTS)