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.

Sunday, March 12, 2006

CONGRATULATION!!! YOU HAVE WON

From: EURO MILLION LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL <writeeuromillion@netscape.net>
Date: 10-Mar-2006 04:44
Subject: CONGRATULATION!!! YOU HAVE WON
To: ideceive <ideceive@gmail.com>

EURO MILLION LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
CALLE MOSTOLES 23C PISO 6G 28923 MADRID ESPANA.
DATE: MARCH 9TH, 2006.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD...

BATCH: EGGS-652-067-222
REFERENCE: 77/13/KTT
AWARD NOTIFICATION.

This is to inform you on the release of the EURO MILLION
INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY held on the 3RD of MARCH 2006. The results was
released on the 6TH of MARCH 2006. Your email address was attached to
ticket number 331-554-075-495 with serial number 321-570-160-006 that
drew the lucky numbers of 00-87-85-69-89, which consequently won the
lottery in the 1st category. You have therefore been awarded a lump of
550,000.00(FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND EURO ONLY) cash credited to
file with REF: NÂș EGS/774/161/888
This is from €5,500,000 (FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO) in
cash among the 20 participants finalist playing 100 full tickets in
which 10 winners was selected.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Your fund is now deposited with Santa Lucia Security Company and
insured in your email address. Due to mix up of some numbers and
names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your
claims have been processed and the money remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid problems from
participants as it has happened in the past. All participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 25,000 names from
Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North and South America, Middle
East and Africa .This programme is sponsored by EUROPEAN UNION/BILL
GATES and WORLD INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY ORGANISATION TO PROMOTE and
ENHANCE the use of SOFT WARE IN THE GOBAL WORLD. We hope your lucky
name will draw a bigger cash prize in the subsequent programs. To
begin your lottery claims, please contact your claims agent.

DR JUAN LUCAS
mailsantalucia@netscape.net
Telephone number: 0034-620-692-135.

you are required to present your information of identity to prove you
are the user of this email address, either your country passport or
any other valid identity is required.Remember, all winnings must be
processed not later than two weeks from the day you receive this
notification. Any requirement not met before this date,funds will be
returned to the EUROPEAN UNION MINISTRY OF FINANCE HEADQUATERS. Also
be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to the security
company because they are the company assigned by the European Union to
process your winnings to you.From your winnings, 10% will be
collected after you have received your winning prize because the money
is insured in your e-mail address and can not be removed.Remember to
quote your reference and batch numbers ( BATCH: EGGS-652-067-222
REFERENCE: 77/13/KTT) in every of your response to your claim agent.
Further more, should there be any change of address, inform your
claim agent as soon as possible.A copy of your lucky winning ticket
and your deposit certificate will be sent to you by your claim agent,
DR JUAN LUCAS.
Once again from all members of our staff CONGRATULATIONS for being a
part of our International promotions program.
NOTE:winners below eighteen years ( -18yrs ) are disqualified from
this programme.
We wish you good fortunes.
Sincerely,
MRS,JANET CROLL

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