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.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

YOUR EMAIL WON LOTTERY

From: AWARD NOTIFICATION <luckydaynl0003@walla.com>
Date: 04-Jul-2006 10:17
Subject: YOUR EMAIL WON LOTTERY
To: LUCKY WINNER <ideceive@gmail.com>

LUCKYDAY LOTTERY
1102 VAN DER TRAAT
AMSTERDAM THE NETHERLANDS
www.luckyday.nl

Dear Winner,

We are please to announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the
luckyday Lotto draw held on the 3rd of July 2006.All 10 winning
Addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000
international Emails. Your email address emerged alongside 9 others as
category A Winners in this year's Annual luckyday Lotto Draw.
Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay out of
(FOUR million Five hundred thousands dollars) only.
The following particulars Are attached to your
lotto payment order:

(i) Winning numbers: PP 3502 /8707-01
(ii) Email ticket number: FL754/22/76
(iii) Lotto code number: 573881545-NL/2006
(iv) The file Ref number: PW 9590 ES 9414

Please contact the under listed claims officer via email and/or phone as
soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings and also
send him the information requested below:

QUAD CRUISE NL
Name: Paul Martel
Phone:+31 644 893 520
Email:paulmartel2@aim.com
Email:paulmartelnl@aim.com

1. NAME IN FULL:................................
2. ADDRESS:.....................................
3. NATIONALITY:.................................
4. AGE:.........................................
5. OCCUPATION:..................................
6. PHONE/FAX:...................................
7.COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE.........

N.B:

Please quote your Reference number in all correspondence with the claims
officer.

Winners are advice 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!!!

Sincerely,
Walter Jones
Promotions Manager
The Luckyday Lotto Company

The Luckyday 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 Luckyday 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.

We also encourage you to visit our website at www.luckyday.nl and Take your
chance to play

and become part of our annual winners. Millions are won on a yearly basis
on one of the

world's most famous lotto Service.

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