From Sarah, with Love

I got a nice mail from Sarah and the promise of a check of 210.000 dollars. Wow...too bad i don't believe in mixing business with pleasure :)

Dear Winner,

your email was selected as the winner of the 2010 Email Lottery, You have won the
total sum of $210,000.00 (Two Hundred And Ten Thousand US dollars)
Your Check Will be delivered by DHL courier Please contact dhl24hrs@mynet.com
to make payment for the delivery charges Which is Ђ122 as soon as this is done
your Check will be delivered to you please contact xxxxxxx@mynet.com immediately With
Full Name:
Address:
Telephone:

Sarah Coleman
© Email Lottery 2010

I just won a BMW 5 Series and 750,000 pounds!

Great news, I just won a new BMW 5 Series and 750,000 pounds spending cash...I just hope the car is available in red! :) Anybody fancy a ride?

Here is the official mail I received :

"Dear Winner,

The BMW Automobile Company, wishes to congratulate you on your success as one of
our Ten(10) Star Prize Winner in this years International

Awareness Promotion (LAP) held in London. This makes you the proud owner of a
brand new BMW 5 Series, car and a cash prize of £750,000.00 GBP.

To begin processing of your prize:
Contact: Mr. Thomas Hooper
TEL: +44-xx-xx-xx-xx
+44-xx-xx-xxx-xxx
EMAIL: xxxxxxxx@gmail.com

Contact him, with your, Serial No: BMW/xxxxxxxxxx and Ref No:BMW:xxxxxxxx/xx.
What you have to do now is to contact Mr Thomas Hooper as soon as possible to
know when they will deliver your package to you because of the

expiring date. you have to contact Mr Thomas Hooper with the following
information's:
Names:
Address:
Age:
Occupation:
Phone no:
Country:

Regards,
Mr. LLYOD BRADFORD."

I am officially a millionaire!

I won a staggering 1,000,000.00 GBP !!!! I quit my job today :)

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are pleased to inform you that your e-mail address has won the British
Telecom Promo. Therefore you have been approve for a lump sum payout
(1,000,000.00 GBP) One Million Pounds in the British Telecom Promo held on
25th Of April 2009, and released 28th April, 2009. Your e-mail ID emerged
as one of the winners in the 1st category.

Please fill the form below and send it to our payment department with the
contact given below.

Name: Marcus Steve
Email: btpromo11@btinternet.com

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM

1.Full Name:
2.Full Address:
3.Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Phone Number:
6.Country:

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Caroline Phillips.

CONGRATULATIONS - Lottery SCAM

YES! I won a staggering 1 million pounds! Great...except it is a spam message :(

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of One Million
Great Britain Pound Sterling (£1,000.000.00) for the month of
MARCH 2009 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN
LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.You are to contact the events manager.
Identification numbers:Batch number .YM 09102XM:Reff number .YM 35447XM
Winning number .DTYFM0988
However you will have to fill and submit this form to the events
manager.
(1)Full name
(2)Home Address
(3)Age
(4).Telephone Number
(5)Sex
(6)Occupation
(7)State
(8)Country
(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Mr Robert Lake
E-mail:overseassclaims@hotmail.com

What is a Lottery Scam

A typical lottery scam begins with an unexpected email notification that "You have won!" a large sum of money in a lottery. The recipient of the message — the target of the scam — is usually told to keep the notice secret, "due to a mix-up in some of the names and numbers," and to contact a "claims agent." After contacting the agent, the target of the scam will be asked to pay "processing fees" or "transfer charges" so that the winnings can be distributed, but will never receive any lottery payment. Many email lottery scams use the names of legitimate lottery organizations, but this does not mean the legitimate organizations are in any way involved with the scams.

There are several ways to recognise a fake lottery email:
1. Unless you have bought a ticket, you cannot have won a prize. There are no such things as "email" draws or any other lottery where "no tickets were sold". This is simply another invention by the scammer to make you believe you've won.

2. The scammer will ask you to pay a fee before you can receive your prize. It is illegal for a real lottery to charge any sort of fee. It does not matter what they say this fee is for (courier charges, bank charges, various imaginary certificates — these are all made up by the scammer to get money out of you). All real lotteries subtract any fee and tax from the prize. They never ask you to pay it in advance.

3. Scam lottery emails will nearly always come from free email accounts such as Yahoo!, Hotmail, Live, MSN, Gmail etc, and no real business will use a free email account.


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