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

Ref: UK/9420X2/68

The Uk National Online Lottery
P O Box 1010 Dublin, 11 G
Lower Dorset Street
(Customer Services)
Ref: UK/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY36
Email: newsinfomation01@yahoo.de

We are pleased to inform you that your e-mail address has won the Uk National Lottery. Therefore you have been approved for a lump sum Payout £1,000,000.00(GBP) One Million Pounds in the Uk National Lottery programThe online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 21,000 email addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet, no tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail ID emerged as one of the winners in the 3rd category. You are therefore been approve to lump sum of £1,000, 000.00(GBP). To file and claim your winning, please contact our Fiduciary Agent for the Processing of your winning particulars, with the following information™s below.

To file for your claim, please contact our

United Kingdom Lottery Fiduciary
Dr. Pinkett Griffin
Email: newsinfomation01@yahoo.de
Phone Nos.: +44 70457 51327
+44 70457 51333

Provide him with the information below:
1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:3.Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Country :
8.Tel.Number:
9 Valid ID card

Congratulations once more from all members and staff of this program.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Rose Wood


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