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

OFFICIAL PRIZE AWARD

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The National Lottery Board
Home Office:L70 1NL Liverpool,
P. O. Box 1010, UNITED KINGDOM
Reference Number: UK/9420X2/68
Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369

This E mail is to inform you that you emerged a winner on our online
draws which was played on the 24th of November, 2007.and won you
the sum of £541,022 GBP.To file for claim,contact our Lottery  Agent
Sharon Cole (Mrs.) E-mail Address:- lottery_verificationsunits@yahoo.co.uk
with your name, address, occupation, sex, age, marital status, telephone numbers.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Carl A. Moore.
Online coordinator,
Sweepstakes International Program.


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