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.

Saturday, August 05, 2006

WINNING...NOTIFICATION!!!!

From: notifications101 <notifications101@terra.com.mx>
Date: 05-Aug-2006 13:22
Subject: WINNING...NOTIFICATION!!!!
To: undisclosed-recipients

WINNING...NOTIFICATION!!!!

West London,
43 North End Road,
West Kensington,
London W14 8SZ

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
LUCKYDAY E-MAIL LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT

BATCH NO: PTP/31211214257/190888/2202
REF. NO: PTP/21449267220/255100//2202
WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL

NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY
BALLOT INTERNATIONAL/ WORLD GAMING BOARD. Your name
attached to ticket number 219028657434 with Serial number
918735625 drew the lucky numbers of 21-70-81-82-99, which consequently
won the lottery in the 1st category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payment of
1,000,000.00euros only, which is deposited with the United Kingdom
Clearing house in your favor as beneficiary and covered with HIGH
INSURANCE POLICY. It is important that keep your winning confidential
to avoid people garnering your information and subsequently making
claim with your winning paraphernalia information's, lucky day lottery
international will decline payment if such irregularity occurs.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and
3,000,000.00 individual email addresses and names from all over the
world.
To begin your lottery claim,please contact our agent below that have
been appointed for the processing of your claim with your contact
telephone and fax number to begin the processing of your payment.

ELIGIBILITY:

This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet and is
open to all persons from age 18 years and above with a valid email
address and who live in any of the aforementioned countries.
This promotion is void in all other countries and is also void where prohibited.
Principals and employees of Lucky day Lottery Promos and its
respective Parents, subsidiaries and their immediate families are not
eligible.

CLAIMS PROCEDURES:

It is our standard practice to allocate accredited agents for the
processing of claims application. It is even more imperative for
overseas winners. To begin your claims therefore, you are advised as a
matter of urgency, to contact the under listed licensed and accredited
claims agent for the processing of your prize awardswinning.
Please contact the clearing house (through your claims agent only) the
body assigned with the verification of all emergent winner.
Therefore all protocols laid down by them must be followed to
facilitate your claims;

CONTACT NAME: CLARK DUNCAN

CITY/ COUNTRY: LONDON, ENGLAND.

TELEPHONE: +4470 4011 6937

FAX: 0044 870 135 5097

EMAIL: claimagent407@yahoo.com.hk

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

(a) Note that there exists a periodic condition on all claims
process,failing which would lead to disqualification and winnings
Forfeiture.Winners are therefore advised to expedite their claims
process.

(b) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's full and
unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms and conditions
of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause of payment of your
prize awards winning.

(c) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning
details very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a
breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will be
covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the oath of
secrecy taken on employment.

Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part
of our Promotions program.

Sincerely,

Peter Walker

Co-coordinator.

NB: PLEASE SEE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR REF AND BATCH NUMBERS IN YOUR
Correspondence TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT.
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The Lucky Day Lottery Promos Awards is proudly sponsored by the Group
of Corporation, the Intel Group, Toshiba, Dell computers, and a
conglomeration of other international IT companies.
The lucky DAY LOTTERY internet draws in each quarter of the year and
is so organized to encourage the use of the internet and
computersworldwide.
We are proud to say that up to 100 Million Euros are won annually in
more than 150 Countries
worldwide.

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