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, November 27, 2007

CONGRATULATIONS!!!YOU HAVE WON THE LOTTERY

EURO-MILLIONES

International Award Promotion

Suite 199 / 207 Santiago Benabeu

Madrid Spain

Email: europrimo@aim.com

www.loterias.com

26/11/2007

Dear Winner,

Subject: Final Award Notification

Euro Million International, a non religious and non racist organizations have jointly organized a Free Email Lottery Program to unite the human race in their religion/belief, as we believe that God is One and human beings are equally one not withstanding your religion, race, education or political background.

As the beneficiary/user of this email address, you have been selected as one of our lucky winners in this our Inaugural Lottery Award, which was organized in the Good Spirit of Ramadan and the forth coming Christmas since on the 12th of October 2007.

Note that all email addresses used in this promotion were presented by our International Marketing Department and draw was conducted via Computer Programmed Selection System in which your email address won in the 2nd Category with the

following information:

Ticket No: JIL/002-9-07, with Serial No: 3 & 4, and Lucky No: 21, 32, 36, 46, 47, thereby winning the sum of Euro708,593.33 (Seven hundred and eight thousand, five hundred and ninety three Euros, thirty-three cents only).

Be informed that payments begins since on the 15th of November 2007 and will end on the 28th of December 2007; Therefore, we advise you to submit your application to our Registered Claim Agent, who will assist you to process and facilitate your

winnings on your behalf with the below details:

Assurance Security Firm Madrid-Spain.

Contact Name: Mr. Desmod Diaz Sanchez

Tel: 0034-691-914-332

Fax: 0034-691-914-332

Email: assurance@aim.com

assurance_security@myway.com

We wish to congratulate you over your winning as we also pray that you will contribute in making the world a peaceful place for human race.

Yours truly,

Don Sergio Raul Gonzalez

(Programme Director)

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