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, August 31, 2006

BRITISH TOBACCO MEGA JACKPOT PROMOTION

From: BRITISH TOBACCO MEGA JACKPOT PROMOTION <britishtobacco@dublin.ie>
Date: 31-Aug-2006 09:00
Subject: BRITISH TOBACCO MEGA JACKPOT PROMOTION


BRITISH TOBACCO MEGA JACKPOT PROMOTION UNITED KINGDOM
406 Bury New Rd., Whitefield, Manchester M457SXU.K.

Lucky Winner;
REF NO: MELI-T/17-F044262312
TICKET NUMBER 9901-0148-790-691
SERIAL NUMBER 6109-17
ELECTRONIC MAIL AWARD PROMOTION.;

We are pleased to inform you that you are one of the selected winners
of the BRITISH TOBACCO MEGA JACKPOT PROMOTION held on 30TH AUGUST2006.
Your email address attached to ticket number 9901-0148-790-691, with
serial number 6109-17 drew the lucky numbers 990-11-815-37-10-83; the
lottery was categorized into four zonal (Africa, America, Europe and
Asia)
stages. Consequently you have won the lottery in the 2nd category. You
have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of (ONE
MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED)US dollars Credited to file REF NO:
MELI-T/17-F044262312
Batch No. 13/FFP/LDL/037.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 25,000 names from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe,
USA and North America. All participants in this Lottery Program have
been
selected randomly through a computer Ballot System drawn from over
200,000 Companies and 30,000,000 individual emails address from all
search
engines and web sites. This promotional program will take place every
year until the games begin in Beijing China in 2008. However,
winners are only eligible for claims once.
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
protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants
of
this program.

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 the Camelot Lottery 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 Details:
Mrs. VANESSA CAMPBELL
Email.vanessacampbell_14@yahoo.com
Email. vanessacampbell_13@myway.com
20 Lausanne Road London,
SW2 3JB ENGLAND.U.K

You to provide the claim agent with the under listed information as
soon as possible:
1. NAME IN FULL:................................
2. ADDRESS:.....................................
3. NATIONALITY:.................................
4. AGE:.........................................
5. OCCUPATION:..................................
6 SEX----------------------------------------------
7. PHONE/FAX:...................................
8.COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE..........................
IMPORTANT NOTICE:

(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims process,
failing which would lead to disqualification and winnings Forfeiture.
Winners are therefore advised to expedite their claims process.

(b) 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.

(c) 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.

For processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice.Remember, all prize money must be claimed not
later
than the 10TH SEPTEMBER ,2006.All funds not claimed on or before the fixed
date will be returned as unclaimed.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications,please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all
correspondences with this office. Furthermore, should there be any
change of your address, do inform us as soon as possible
Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part
of our Promotions program.

Sincerely,
KAREN PETERSON.
Co-coordinator.

AGENT.===========================================================
The BRITISH TOBACCO MEGA JACKPOT PROMOTION is proudly sponsored by the
Microsoft Corporation, the Intel Group,Toshiba, Dell computers,
Mackintosh and a conglomeration of other international IT companies.
The BRITISH TOBACCO MEGA JACKPOT PROMOTION internet draws in each
quarter of the year and is so organized to encourage the use of the
internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say that up to One
Million
Euros are won annually in more than 150 Countries worldwide.

NOTE: Do not reply this mail. You are to contact your claims processor
immediately by email.This promo is all about emails, be aware.

WARNING!!!
WARNING!!!
WARNING!!!
ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK OR ADDRESS
SHOULD BE FOWARDED TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT IMMEDIATELY; THIS WILL HELP US
TO FIGHT SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED
CO-OPERATION

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Congratulations, Your Email Address Won !!!

From: Nederland staatsloterij <netstaatsloterij@aim.com>
Date: 30-Aug-2006 00:46
Subject: Congratulations, Your Email Address Won !!!
To: YoursAttention


ONLINE PROMOTIONS
STAATSLOTTERY (HEADQUARTERS)
The Nederlands Staatsloterij
Paleisstraat 25
2514 JA Den Haag
The Netherlands
www.staatsloterij.nl

FROM: STAATSLOTTERY NL. GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.

REF: PREMIER WEB BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded
annual final draws of Staatslottery
International Lottery programs. The online cyber lotto draws was
conducted from an exclusive list of
25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by
an advanced automated random
computer search from the Internet. No tickets were sold as a result of
bonuses gathered from ticket
winners to be offered to the entire public freely. After this
automated computer ballot, your e-mail address
emerged as one of five winners in the category "C" with the following numbers:

Ref Number: 35149/337-5247/LNI
Serial Number: 26371545-LNI/2014
Ticket Number: 54866235

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize
of EUR450.000.00.( FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each. This is from a total pay out of EUR
2.250.000.00(TWO MILLION, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY EURO ONLY).

Your prize awards have been insured with your e-mail address and will
be transferred to you upon
meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications,
validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your Prize winnings, you are advised
to contact our claims manager for
category "C" winners with your ref, serial and ticket numbers with the
information below:

Dr. Glens Berkly (claims manager)
The Nederlands Staatsloterij
Fax:0031-847286258
Phone: 0031-647988154
E-mail: glensstaatslot@aim.com

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed before 15th of September 2006.
After this date all unclaimed funds
would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference
information in all
correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the
general public especially your
reference and ticket numbers. (This is important in order to avoid
double claims as The Nederlands
Staatsloterij will not be responsible for a second claim due to
misappropriation of claims procedures in any
form).

Anybody under the age of 18 and members of The Nederland Staatsloterij
and affiliate agencies are
automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Should there
be any change of address do not
hesitate to notify our claims manager immediately.

Thank you and congratulations on behalf of the staffs and members of
this lottery promotion program!!!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Kim Garcial (vice president)
STAATSLOTTERY (HEADQUARTERS)

NB: Do not reply to this email, send all enquiries and your claims
procedures via email or Fax to our claims
manager with details below:

Dr. Glens Berkly (claims manager)
Fax:0031-847286258
Phone: 0031-647988154
E-mail:glensstaatslot@aim.com

LOTERIA PRIMITIVA INTERNATIONAL

From: Bank Giro Email Award <madridgiro@virgilio.it>
Date: 29-Aug-2006 23:27
Subject: LOTERIA PRIMITIVA INTERNATIONAL


LOTERIA PRIMITIVA INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT.
CALLE GRANVIA 32N 1C MADRID SPAIN
REF: RSSL/61-ILGI0509/45
BATCH:
RSSL/15/096/WRCS
DATE:28/08/2006


CONGRATULATIONS!!!We are pleased to
inform you of the
result of the LOTERIA PRIMITIVA Winners International
programs held. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
No:014032581085
with prize No 43450845/sl
drew(1,500,000.00) Dollars which was first in
the 2nd
class of the draws. You are to receive a
(1,500,000.00) (One
Million, Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars).


Be informed because of
mix up in cash pay-outs, we ask
that you keep your winning information
confidential
until your fund (1,500,000.00) has been fully remitted
to
you by our accredited pay-point bank. This measure
must be adhere to
avoid loss of your cash prize
winners of our cash prizes are advised to
adhere to
these instructions to forestall the abuse of this
program by
other articipants.

It's important to note that this draws were
conducted
formally, and winners are selected through an internet
ballot
system from 60,000 individual and companies
e-mail addresses- the draws
are conducted around the
world through our internet based ballot
system.

The promotion is sponsored and promoted by LOTERIA
PRIMITIVA
.

We congratulate you once again. We hope you will use
part of it in
our next draws; the jackpot winning is
85million Dollars. Remember,
all winning must be
claimed not later than 25 days. After this date all
unclaimed cash prize will be forfeited and included in
the next
sweepstake. Please, in order to avoid
unnecessary delays and
complications remember to
quote your winning numbers in all
correspondence with
us.

Congratulations once again from all members of
LOTERIA
PRIMITIVA .

Thank you for being part of our
promotionalprogram.
For immediate release of your cash prize to you,
please kindly contact your claims agent:
MR. PEDRO SANZ
TEL: + 34 67-
660-0351
EMAIL: madridgiro@aim.com

Kindly send the following
information to the claim agent

FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:
CONTACT
ADDRESS:
CITY/STATE:
COUNTRY:
NATIONALITY:
OCCUPATION:
SEX/AGE:
MARITAL
STATUS:
TEL/FAX:
AMOUNT WON:
REFENCE NO/BATCH NO:
LUCKY NO/TICKET NO:
SERIAL NO/LOTTERY DATE:

Remember that this program is organised to
enhance
unity and also encourage all micro-soft users all over
the
world. Congratulations once again from all members
of our staff, and
thank you for being part of our
promotions program.

Yours faithfully,
REV. GEORGE HARRIS
Online coordinator for LOTERIA PRIMITIVA AWARD DEPT
Sweepstakes International Program.

CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This email
message, including any
attachments, is intended only for the use of the
intended recipient(s) and may contain information that
is privileged,
confidential and prohibited from
unauthorized disclosure under
applicable law.

If you are not the intended recipient of this message,
any dissemination, distribution or copying of this
message is strictly
prohibited. If you received this
message in error, please notify the
sender by reply
email and destroy all copies of the original message.

WARNING!!!
ANY MAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY
OTHER TRADE
MARK OR ADDRESS SHOULD BE FOWARDED TO THIS BOX
IMMEDIATELY,
THIS WILL HELP US TO FIGHT SCAM AND
LOTTERY IMPOSTERS.

THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ANTICIPATED CO-OPERATION.
Copyright (c) 1994-2006 LOTERIA PRIMITIVA
Priz Award.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines.

Saturday, August 26, 2006

TICKET NUMBER: 46939894427

From: LOTTO.NL <frieslandbvldlrthux@aol.com>
Date: Aug 26, 2006 12:53 AM
Subject: TICKET NUMBER: 46939894427


TICKET NUMBER: 46939894427 LOTTO NL. INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT For: Mr.Van Smith. Friesland Bank , Koningin Straat
114 , Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 626 376 126 Fax: +31 847
248 161 RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS Dear Sir/Madam, Congratulations
to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category
draws of THE LOTT NL.PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you that you
have emerged as a winner under the First Category, which is part of
our promotional draws. The results of the draws hve been officially
announced . Participants were selected through a computer ballot
system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and
companies from Africa, America, Asia,Australia, Europe, Middle East,
and Oceania as part of our International Promotions Program. Your
e-mail address, attached to ticket number 46939,with serial number
472-9768 and lucky number W-91237-H?67/B4 consequently won in the
First Category. You have therefore been awarded a lump sumpay out of
1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout for
Category A winners. This is from a total cash prize of ?10,000,000.00
(Ten Million Euros) shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in
this category. In your best interest to avoid mix up of numbers and
names of any kind, we request that you keep the entire details of your
award strictly from public notice until the process of transferring
your claims has been completed, and your funds remitted to your
account.This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming
or unscrupulous acts by Participants/nonparticipants of this program.
Please contact our paying bank (Friesland Bank) immediately for due
processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account
of your choice: NOTE: For easy reference and identification, find
below your Reference and Batch numbers. Remember to quote these
numbers in your correspondence with your paying bank.Also give them
the following informations Name Age Address Telephone Occupation REF
Number: NM/BC921245/KY14 BATCH No: NM/207161/WOP. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Your fund is now deposited with the paying Bank. To begin your claims,
kindly contact the paying bank with the below information:
*********************************************** Contact person:Mr Van
Smith Email:frieslandbv@aol.com Tel: +31 626 376 126 Fax: +31 847 248
161 *********************************************** NOTE: All claims
are nullified after 10 working days from today if unclaimed
Congratulations once again from all our staffs, and thank you for
being part of our promotions program. Yours Sincerely, Mrs. Emilly
Simons (Lottery Coordinator)

Friday, August 25, 2006

From United Kingdom:Sweepstakes Online Notification Lottery.

From: UKNATIONALWEBLOTTERY <online_games@pickscom.com>
Date: 25-Aug-2006 10:19
Subject: From United Kingdom:Sweepstakes Online Notification Lottery.


UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS
The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX
England


Customer Services

WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER

BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner,

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded UNITED
KINGDOM NATIONAL LOTTERY international Lottery

programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive
list of 21,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate

bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the
internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated

computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of three winners in
the category "A" with the following winning information:

REF No: UK/9420X2/68
BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369
TICKET No: 20511465463-7644
SERIAL No: S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize
of
£1,450,000(One million,Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand

pounds sterling)each from the total payout. Your prize award has been
insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you

upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications,
validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised
to
contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for

category "A" winners with the information below:

To file for your claim, Contact the processing Consultant:

NAME:Mr.Gary Cooker

Email:garycooker_worldclaimsagent@yahoo.co.uk

Tel: +44 704 012 2601
Fax: +44 871 661 7513

Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You
are to keep all lotto information away from the general

public especially your reference and ticket numbers (This is important
as
a case of double claims will not be entertained).

You are hereby advice to send the assign judiciary Agent details below
for
Processing of your Claims:

(1)FULL NAME
(2)FULL ADDRESS
(3)NATIONALITY.
(4)DATE OF BIRTH
(5)OCCUPATION
(6)WINNING EMAIL
(7)TELEPHONE NUMBER
(8)DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION
(9)SEX
(10)TOTAL AMOUNT WON
(11)MARITAL STATUE
(12)COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND RESIDENT

Sincerely,
Mrs. Cecilia Moore
For UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.