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, October 02, 2006

CONTACT THE PAYMENT AUTHORITY.

From: dorisphillips.nationalpostcod4@virgilio.it
<dorisphillips.nationalpostcod4@virgilio.it>
Date: 02-Oct-2006 20:48
Subject: CONTACT THE PAYMENT AUTHORITY.


CONTACT THE PAYMENT AUTHORITY.
WINX LOTTO INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/
PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
1785WF,GOIFEESTRAAT,AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS.

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 held on the 29th day of September
2006. Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 2,500,000 e-mails addresses ofindividuals 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 472-9768uk,
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.

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Contact person:
Mr.
Mike Anderson,
(International Remittance Department).
Email:
intctalliancefs@aim.com
Tel: +31-649-216-997
Fax: +31-205-248 770.

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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,
Mrs. Doris Phillips
(Lottery Coordinator).

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