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

PRIZE NOTIFICATION!!

The National Lottery
P O Box 1010
Liverpool, L70 1NL
UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)

REF No:UKNL-L/200-26937
BATCH No:2007MJL-01
TICKET No:20511465463-7644
SERIAL No:S/N-00168
LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

FINAL NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the winners of the UK
NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME, held on 24th September
2007.The process was carried out through a random selection from a
database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn accross the world.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000
(One Million Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file
UKNL-L/200-26937.To file for your claim, please
contact our claims agent;

Dr. Steve Hughes
TEL:+447045711414
Email:info_uklottopromo2007@yahoo.co.uk

Provide him with the information below:
1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.
Sincerely,
Mrs.Rose Wood.

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