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, June 12, 2006

Your urgent confirmation is required!

From: Mega & Euro Million Lottery Commission. <megaeurolotto@atlas.cz>
Date: 12-Jun-2006 21:47
Subject: Re: Your urgent confirmation is required!
To: ideceive@gmail.com

Mega & Euro Million Lottery Commission.
EUROPEAN LIASON OFFICE:
AVENIDA DE AMERICA, 108
MADRID ESPANA.Email: megaeurolotto@atlas.cz

ATTENTION! AWARD WINNING NOTIFFICATION.

Dear Winner,

We are pleased to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
Free Lotto draw held on Wednesday 7th June 2006. All 10 winning
addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 10.000.00
international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as
category 2 winners in this year's Annual Free Lotto Draw. There are 10
Tickets for the $18 Million Euro Millions Drawn on 7th of June 2006.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
€1,320,000 (one million three hundred and twenty thousand euros) only.

The following particulars are attached to your lotto payment order:

1. (I) Winning numbers: 37-13-43-85-67-90
(ii) Email ticket number: MGL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: MGLG09622ES
(IV) The file Ref number: MGL/04/736207152/ES

2. Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the
claims officer.
3. Winners must send their names, address, and telephone number and
means of identification (international passport or driver's license
numbers) to claim officer to process immediate payment of their prize.
4. Note that winners who are below 18 years are automatically disqualified.
Please contact the claims officer on the below name and address;-

CAJA SEGURIDAD ESPAÑA. Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release
Order Dept.Systems Information finance and Security Company. Contact
officer: MR. MORGAN HERMANN.
EMAIL: cajaseguridad@lycos.es <mailto:cajaseguridad@lycos.es>
TELEPHONE: #34-655 678 776.) For the immediate release of your winnings prize.
Winners are advised to keep this award confidential until prize are
claimed to avert incidence of impersonation by unscrupulous elements.
Once again on behalf of all our staff, congratulations.
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The Free Lotto. Awards is proudly sponsored by the Microsoft
Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell Computers, Mackintosh and
a conglomeration of other international IT companies. The free lotto.
Internet draw is held once in a year and is so organized to encourage
the use of the Internet and computers worldwide. We are proud to say
that over 200 Million Euros are won annually in more than 150
countries worldwide. -----------------------------
Click here to read the Free Lotto Rules:
<http://www.freelotto.com/Rules.asp?rules=PowerMegaEuro200050926> 10.
WINNER'S LIST: The names of winners, if any, in the 'Power Mega Euro
200 Pool' may be obtained 14 days after the drawing for a specific
contest by sending a request including your name, postal address and
e-mail address to megaeurolotto@atlas.cz
<mailto:megaeurolotto@atlas.cz> We also encourage you to visit our
website at the below site:
(<http://www.freelotto.com/Rules.asp?rules=PowerMegaEuro200050926>)
and take your chance to play and become part of our daily winners.
Millions are won on a daily basis on one of the world's most famous
free lotto service. CONGRATULATIONS!!
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Sincere Regards
Mrs.Stefanny W.Hoffmann
Promotión Manager
MEGA & EURO MILLION LOTTO COMMISSION.
*********************************************************************************************
WARNING!!! ANY EMAIL RECIEVED OF THIS SUCH WITH ANY OTHER TRADE MARK
OR ADDRESS SHOULD BE FOWARDED TO THE EURO MILLION LOTTO OFFICIAL
THROUGH THIS EMAIL ADDRESS (megaeurolotto@atlas.cz
<mailto:megaeurolotto@atlas.cz>) IMMEDIATELY, THIS WILL HELP US TO
FIGHT SCAM AND LOTTERY IMPOSTERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANTICIPATED
CO-OPERATION.

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