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, November 16, 2006

CONGRATULATION !!! YOU HAVE WON...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lottery Director Wilfred Alberto <royalspanishmillones@yahoo.es >
Date: 16-Nov-2006 08:13
Subject: CONGRATULATION !!! YOU HAVE WON...
To:

INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
CALLE GRANVIA 32N 1C MADRID SPAIN
REF: RSSL/61-ILGI0509/45
BATCH:RSSL/15/096/WRCS
DATE:15/11/2006
Dear Winner,

                    AWARD NOTIFICATION FINAL NOTICE

This is to inform you of the release of the Royal Spainish Sweepstake
Lottery Email Promotional Program held on the 27st October 2006, this
result was initially delayed due to mix up of email addresses, the
results were finally released on the 11th November 2006, and your e-mail
attached to.

Ticket number: 2996005600546 772 with Serial number: 4888/02, which
drew the Lucky numbers: 41-6-76-13-45-8, which consequently won the lottery
in the Second category of the year 2006. You are therefore approved.

for a lump sum payout of 1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION EUROS ONLY) in cash
accredited to file reference number: KPC/9080333308/03 this is from a
total cash prize of 19,000,000.00 (NINTEEN MILLION EUROS ONLY) Shared
among the nineteen international winners in this category.

Your fund is now deposited in a security company with your prize money
insured in your e-mail.Due to mix up of some email addresses, we ask
that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been
processed and money remitted to your account as this is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted abuse of this
program by participants as it has happened in the past. Allparticipants

were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw
system and extracted from over 100,000 companies,this promotion takes
place

annually. We hope your lucky email address will draw a bigger cash prize
in the next high stake promotion agenda of 30,000,000.00 (THIRTY
MILLION EUROS)

To begin your lottery claim, please contact your claim agent, AGRO
CONSULTANCY AND SECURITIES S.L.
MADRID SPAIN DR.RICHARD ANTONIO (
Remittance/foreign operations manager) Tel:+34-619-693-930
Email:agroconsu@yahoo.es
*****************************
For due processing and remittance of your winning prize money to
designated account of your choice. Remember, all prize money must be
claimed.

(not later than 30st November 2006. After this date, this fund will be
returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed fund.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delay and complication, please
remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every
correspondence

with your agent or us. Furthermore, should there be any change of your
contact email address, do inform your claim agent as soon as possible.
Congratulation once again from all members of our staff and thank you
for being part of our International promotion program. We wish you

continued good fortunes.
Yours Sincerely,
Wilfred Alberto (Lottery Director)

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