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.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON THE LOTTERY AWARD/PRIZE!!!

From: EURO MILLIONS SPANISH LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL!!!
<euromilliones@casinomail.com>
Date: 07-Jun-2006 20:52
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE WON THE LOTTERY AWARD/PRIZE!!!
To: ideceive <ideceive@gmail.com>

EURO MILLIONES SPANISH LOTTERY ESPAÑAL
C / CORDOBA Nº 14 PLANTA 2-A
28089 MADRID, ESPANA

FROM:THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF:67/80/IPD
BATCH:EGGS-541-623-782
DATE...7th June ,2006

RE/AWARD NOTIFICATION;FINAL NOTICE

We pleased to inform you of the announcement today,7th June 2006,
winners of the EURO MILLIONES LOTTERY COMPANY S.A PROGRAMES held on
the 24th May 2006.Your email address is attached to ticket
number:023-0148-790-459,with serial number 5073-11 that drew the lucky
numbers 43-11-44-37-10-43,and consequently won the lottey in the 2nd
category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of EURO
1000.000.000 ( ONE MILLION EURO in cash credited to file REF NO.
67/80/IPD.This is from total prize money of €20,000,000.00 shared
among the twenty international winners in this category.All
participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from
25,000 names from Australia,New Zealand,America,Europe,North America
and Asia as part of International Promotions Program, which is
conducted at every three years.

CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with a security company(SANTA LUCIA
SECURITY COMPANY ESPAÑA) insured 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 protocol to
avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this
program. We hope with a part of your prize,you will participate in our
beginning of year high stakes US$1.3 billion international lottery.

To begin your claims,please contact your agent;DR W.C.Pratt ( KT,SSS,ACIB )
FOREIGN OPERATION DIRECTOR,
Email,fudicialagent@netscape.net or santaclaim@mixmail.com
TEL.+34-676-744-904.
For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated
account of your choice. Remember, all prize money must be claimed not
later than two weeksr 2006.After this date, all funds will be returned
as unclaimed to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA AS
UNCLAIMED.NOTE:In order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications,please remember to quote your reference and batch
numbers in every one of your correspondences with your claim agent.

Furthermore.if there is any change of your address,do inform your
claims agent as soon as possible.Congratulations again from all our
staffs and thank you for being part of our promotions program.

Sincerely,
Ms COMFORT JOSE
EURO MILLIONES SPANISH LOTTERY S.A
CO-ORDINATOR

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