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 29, 2007

****IRISHLOTTERY...END..OF..YEAR...PROMOTIONS****

The Irish Lottery
P O Box 1010
11 G Lower Dorset Street,
Dublin 1, Ireland
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369

28/11/2007.

Dear winner,

This mail is to bring to your notice that your email emerged as one of our winning email address in our just concluded Irish Lottery Board sweepstakes programme that made you automatically a winner of the sum of £1,350,000 (One million, three hundred and fifty thousand, pounds sterling), held on 29 November 2007.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 17, 19, 23, 33, 40, 41, Bonus 13 which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus.processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.please contact our Claims Agent and fill the payment processing form and send it to our claims agent immediately.

Barr.spencer williams
Email:williams.spencer@hotmail.com
Tel:(+44)-7045752545

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM

1.FULL NAMES:________
2.ADDRESS:__________
3.SEX:_______________
4.AGE:________
5.MARITAL STATUS:_____
6.OCCUPATION:________
7.E-MAIL ADDRESS:______
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________
9.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___
10.AMOUNT WON:________
11. COUNTRY___________

Yours faithfully,
SIR. PHILIP JOHNSON
Phone :+447045754607
Fax :+4470757077.
Online coordinator for THE IRISH LOTTERY
Sweepstakes International Program.


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