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, July 05, 2006

CONTACT YOUR PAYING BANK.

From: info_winx002@virgilio.it <info_winx002@virgilio.it>
Date: 06-Jul-2006 00:43
Subject: CONTACT YOUR PAYING BANK.

CONTACT YOUR PAYING BANK.
WINX LOTTO INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/
PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.

RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "A" DRAWS

We are pleased to
congratulate you, and announce to you,
the results of the First
Category draw of THE WINX
LOTT PROMO INT. We are happy to inform you
that you
have emerged a winner under the First Category, which
is
part of our promotional draws. The draws are being
officially
announced today 13th of Match 2006. Participants
were selected through
a computer ballot system drawn from
2,500,000 e-mails addresses of
individuals and companies
from Africa, America, Asia, Australia,
Europe, Middle East,
and Oceania as part of our International
Promotions Program.
Your e-mail address, attached to ticket number
46998126739,
with prize number 76210/UK, which consequently won in
the
First Category. You have been awarded a lump sum pay-out of

€1,000,000 (One Million Euros), which is the winning payout
for
Category "A" winners.
This is from a total cash prize of €10,000,000.00
(Ten Million
Euros) shared amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in
this
category.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is currently now
deposited with the paying Bank.
In your best interest to avoid mix up
of numbers and names
of any kind, we request that you keep the entire
details of
your award strictly from public notice till the process of
transferring your claims has been completed, and your funds
remitted
to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming
or unscrupulous acts by participants/non-participants of this
program.
Please contact our paying bank (Inter Continental Alliance
Finance &
Securities) immediately for due processing and remittance
of your
prize money to a designated account of your choice:
NOTE: For easy
reference and identification, do remember to quote
these numbers in
your correspondence with your paying bank:
To claim your funds, please
contact the paying bank.
*************************************************
Contact person: Mr.
John Kane,
(International Remittance Department).
Email:
iconafs1@netscape.net
Tel: +31-654-743-302
Fax: +31-847-292-338
*************************************************
N.B: All claims are
nullified after 20 working days from today.
Congratulations once again
from all members of Winx
Lotto International. Thank you for being part
of our
promotional program.

Yours in service,
Dr. Bernard Van Dough.

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