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, August 16, 2005

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON !!!

FROM: THE PROMOTION DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL,
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT OF EUROPE LOTTERY,
REF NO: LDL/2311786008/01
BATCH: 12/011/IPD


AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the EUROPE LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROGRAMS held on 27th JULY 2005, in which you are
a winner. Your email address attached to ticket number 205-11465886-629
with serial number 3772-99 drew the lucky numbers 7-14-17-23-31-44, and has
consequently won the lotto in the "A" category.

The sum of US$1,000,000.00 in cash has been credited to file REF NR:
LDL/2311786008/01. This is from total prize money of US$14,000,000.00
shared among four categories.

All participants emails and mailing addresses were selected through
chambers of commerce, internet program and country population census
records as a ballot drawn program from countries in Middle East, Asia,
Africa, and North America as part of our International Promotions
Program,which was conducted to aid and influence individuals and companies
as a source of motivation to aid UNICEF and charity program over Tsunami
ASIA AID support. Although, Enormous amount has been formally donated for
Tsunami by various organizations involve in ballot program and these
are electronics dealers, construction, agencies, services and supplies
project sponsoring this ballot program. Therefore funds are not originally
given away by us.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your fund will be ready for payment soon after processing is completed
by our claim processing unit. Please note that 10% of your prize is
compulsory for a charity donation of your choice in Asia.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:

Simply contact our fiduciary agent, Mr.BrianAlmond
Email:europewining@netscape.net
Phone Number:0031612423328


File for your claim. Please quote your reference, batch and winning
number which can be found on the top left corner of this notification as
well as your full name, address and telephone number to help locate your
file easily.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by
winners or unofficial personnel.DO CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT VIA
Mr.BrianAlmond ON THIS EMAIL: europewining@netscape.net

ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION

Note: all winnings MUST be claimed on or before the 30th of AUGUST
2005,otherwise funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donate to
charity.Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to Disqualification and under age of 18 is disqualified for this
star prize.

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional programmed.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Laura Van Der Berg
(Promotion Director)

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