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.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WON THE PRIZE!!

From: NOTIFICATION <questgames2006@aim.com>
Date: 06-Jul-2006 10:41
Subject: YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WON THE PRIZE!!
To: You Have Won <ideceive@gmail.com>

QUEST LOTTERY GAMES INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMS
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675 DEFLOCKLAAN STRAAT 1657 JK AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS.
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PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT DEAR SIR/MADAM, RESULTS FOR FIRST
CATEGORY DRAWS. After a successful completion of the first category
draws of QUEST-LOTTERY GAMES INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS. You have emerged
as one of the winners of the QUEST-LOTTERY GAME INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS, which is part of our promotional draws. Participants were
selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 email
addresses of individuals and companies from America, Africa, Asia,
Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our
International Promotions Program.
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You/Your Company, attached to: TICKET NUMBER:AS1-VC9-65LU SERIAL
NUMBER:TYP-LDD LUCKY NUMBER:DSE-MJK-29RGN REFERENCE NUMBER: QUI-UU4-5L
BATCH NUMBER:BXQ6-Y22UY-POQ
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As a category (A) winner, you have been selected by computer balloting
system where only email addresses are soughted,from a total numbers of
30,000 email addresses drawn from all over the globe. After an
automated computer ballot of our International Promotions Program
consequently won in the first Category. You have therefore been
awarded a lump sum pay out of 2,000,000.00EUROS. Which is the winning
payout for first categories winners. This is from the total prize
money of 12,000,000.00Euros shared among the six international winners
in the FIRST categories. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! You have to contact the
(File/Claim Officer) for immediate remittance your E-mail address won
the lucky number. To avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we
request that you keep this award strictly from public notice until the
entire process of transferring your claims has been completed, and
your funds remitted to your account. This is part of our security
protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants
of this program required by the (QUEST-LOTTERY GAMES INTERNATIONAL).
We also wish to bring to your notice our End of Year (2006) high
stakes where you stand a chance of winning up to 13 million Euros; We
hope that with a part of your prize you will participate. To begin
your claims process of your winning prize, please contact your claims
agent through e-mail or telephone,fax immedaitely you received this
notification for due processing and remittance of your prize money to
a designated account of your choice.
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File/Claim Officer MR.PIRES VAN MOORE. manager International
Remmittance/Credit unit Facility Management Region CITI Trust Finance
& Security 98 Kimpering Straat 1263 Qx Amsterdam Netherlandse Tel: +
31-644-759-074 Fax: + 31-847-535-141 EMAIL: citiclaimsagent@aim.com
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Remember, you must contact your claim agent not later than July 25th
2006 after this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed NOTE: To
avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote
your reference and batch numbers provided below in every one of your
correspondence with your claims agent. You are to provide the below
details,to enable the speedy evaluation and processing of your
winnings. we advice that you adhere strictly to their procedures to
avoid any disqualifications and subsequent cancellation. 1.Your full
names: 2. your full home / office address: 3. direct telephone/fax
numbers: the above detailed information will be absolutely necessary
to file in your claims. Congratulations once again from all staffs of
(QUEST-LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS) thank you for being part of our
promotions program. Sincerely, THE LOTTERY COORDINATOR, QUEST-LOTTERY
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS. Sincerely Your's, WIJH VAN HELDER. N.B. Any
breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to
disqualification. Please do not reply to this mail. Contact your
claims agent.

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