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.

Monday, May 29, 2006

YABOO MILLIONARE

From: yaboomillionare12@yahoo.com <yaboomillionare12@yahoo.com>
Date: May 27, 2006 10:52 PM
Subject: YABOO MILLIONARE
To: yaboomillionare12@yahoo.com

YABOO MILLIONARE SOUTH AFRICA.
64, ST STEPHENS STREET PORT ELIZABETH.
SOUTH AFRICA.
TEL: +27-730883374
FAX: +27-800600666
EMAIL: schkhan@tsamail.co.za

PRIZE AWARD NOTIFICATION

Dear Winner,

CONGRATULATIONS

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement made on 22nd May 2006
as the winners of the
YABOO MILLIONARE PROGRAM. As part of our promotional draw.
Participants were selected through
a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of
individuals and companies from
all part of the world as part of our electronic business Promotions Program.
Note that your email address qualified for this draw.. Your email
address, attached to ticket
number 100-309-7482, with serial number 513-10 drew the lucky numbers
3, 4, 15, 26, 27, 41 and
Bonus number 11 and consequently YOU HAVE won in the Second Category.
Your winning Ticket is Number. 343-221-8756
Your Serial Number. 454-17
your lucky draw Numbers are. 3, 4, 15, 26, 27, 41 Bonus Number 11
Your INSURANCE Number: FLS433/453L/GMSA
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$2,000.000 in cash, which is the
winning payout for Second category winners. This is from the total
prize money of US$26,650,000.00
shared among the seven international winners in the Second category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Please be informed that your CHEQUE of the sum of US2, 000.000 is now
YEBOO MILLIONARE SOUTH AFRICA,
has being insured with your email address which won you this prize,
therefore you should contact
(YEBOO MILLIONARE LTD) your agent and give them your full names so
that they will re-insure your
CHEQUE under your full names.

Please note that YEBOO MILLIONARE LTD is your paying agent,
will invite you to their office in South Africa for your immediate
payment, you have to hurry up
and contact them immediately.
To begin your claim, please call your claim agent immediately and also
to send an urgent message to him.

MR. SCHOBE KHAN
CLAIM AGENT
YEBOO MILLIONARE
TEL: +27-730883374
FAX: +27-800600666
EMAIL: schkhan@tsamail.co.za

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please
remember to quote your
reference and batch numbers and other information provided above and
below in every one of your
correspondences with your claims agent.
REFERENCE NUMBER: FLS-ZR39-825P-4
BATCH NUMBER: 74-263-BBN.
INSURANCE Number: FLS433/453L/GMSA
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN FROM ALL OUR STAFF

YOURS SINCERELY,
MISS. NOMTHA NKHOSI
THE PROMOTION MANAGER.
YEBOO MILLIONARE SOUTH AFRICA.
YABOO MILLIONARE SOUTH AFRICA.
64, ST STEPHENS STREET PORT ELIZABETH.
SOUTH AFRICA
YEBOO MILLIONARE GOES INTERNATIONAL AS THE 2010 WORLD CUP WILL BE
HOSTED BY SOUTH AFRICA.
THIS PROGRAM IS SPONSURED BY: SOUTH AFRICAN LOTTO
AUTHORITY.

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