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.

Friday, November 30, 2007

WINNING NOTICE FOR SILVER STAKE WINNER- Ref. No.- SLI/051/652659967/NL

FROM: PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT OF STAATS LOTERIJ INTERNATIONAL,WINNING NOTICE FOR SILVER STAKE WINNER- Ref. No.- SLI/051/652659967/NL

Attention:


Staats Loterij International has just concluded its final draws of it's periodical promotional program.An exclusive list of email addresses of thousands of individual and corporate bodies were picked by automated random computer search from the internet.No tickets were sold.Your email address emerged as one of five(5) winners in the silver stakes category as email addresses were soughted, from a total number of 75,000 addresses drawn from all over the globe.

After an automated computer ballot of our International Promotions Program, only FIVE winners emerged in this category and therefore each are to receive payouts of €1,800,000.00 from the total of €9,000,000.00 (NINE MILLION EUROS).However,every email address selected was accompanied by a reference and ticket number, after the cyber lotto selection, the below ticket and reference numbers emerged as one of the lucky winners in the above category.CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Reference number for your prize is:Ref. No.-SLI/051/652659967/NL
Ticket No.-SLI87867NL

For your prize claim processing, we have employed the service of an lnternational Trust firm. They are to handle the transfer of your cash prize of €1,800, 000.00 in line with our procedures and upon your directions. Your prize has been insured to its full value with your email address and will be transferred to you under their professional service.To immediately initiate the processing of your prize claim, please contact our financial handlers Corporate Finance & Securities,below are the contact information of their FINANCIAL DIRECTOR;

Mr.Mark Darren
Financial Director
Corporate Finance & Securities Company,
United Kingdom.
Email:m-daren@hotmail.com
Tel:+44-704-570-5330
Tel:+44-702-408-2474
Fax:+44-870-135-5854

In your best interest(s), you must initiate contact within two weeks of receipt of this correspondence.Corporate Finance & Securities Company are to handle all matters with regards to claiming of your prize money. You are also advised to send a copy of this email,to your claims agent Mr.Mark Darren, when contacting him.You may be required to provide any of the above information during the process of collecting your prize. We congratulate you once again and it is our hope that you participate in any of our international programs in the nearest future.

Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Sincerely,
Julia Anderson,
Promotions Manager,
Staats Loterij International,
Netherlands.
Website:www.staatsloterij.nl

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