CONGRATULATIONS!!! (PAYMENT APPROVAL OF YOUR WINNING PRIZE MONEY US$450,000:00 )

[zarbeita]

Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:47:20 -0500
From: oceanicagencias@netscape.net View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert

To: [mod edit - JF - Removed personal details]
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! (PAYMENT APPROVAL OF YOUR WINNING PRIZE MONEY US$450,000:00 )

REF: PAYMENT APPROVAL OF YOUR WINNING PRIZE MONEY US$450,000:00 (FOUR
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND UNTIED STATES DOLLARS ONLY)

Attn:Mr. [mod edit - JF - Removed personal details]

We wish to inform you that the Claim Department of this office has
finally confirmed and obtain approval from the Spanish Lottery Board for
the payment of your winning prize money of US$450,000:00 (Four Hundred
and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars Only)after due diligent
verification and is among those to be paid next batch,find an attached Euro
Millones
payment form c6.

We have been instructed by the Spanish Lottery Board to legalise all
your award winning documents covering your winning prize money and obtain
the Approved Legal Clearance Certificate from the Madrid Municipal
Court here in Spain which is in accordance with the Spanish Financial Act
2005 on payment of International Lottery Winners since after Madrid
Train Bomb 11, 2004 incident.

This is to legally present you as the prime winner in the lottery
program and to legally clear your funds from terrorist and drug funds. The
paying bank will not effect payment of your winning prize money if all
your award winning documents is not legalised in the Court here in
Madrid and also if we did not obtain the Approved Legal Clearance
Certificate (A.L.C.C) from the Madrid Municipal Court here in Spain .

We have already contacted the Madrid Municipal Court here in Spain in
Madrid-Spain to know what it required to legalise all your award winning
documents covering your winning prize money and also in obtaining the
Approved Legal Clearance Certificate.

We have been informed by the Madrid Municipal Court here in Spain that
before they can issue the Approved Legal Clearance Certificate, you
must pay the government official charges of â‚1,880:00 (One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Eighty Euros Only).

Be informed that we cannot deduct the above charges of â‚1,880:00 (One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Euros Only) from your winning prize
money due to the Insurance Bond that covers your winning prize money to
its full value as stated in the Certificate of Award.Due to this
reason, you the bonafide beneficiary will be responsible in paying the above
charges.

You are hereby required to contact Director Legal Department of this
office below on to remit the Govenmrnt official Charges â‚1,880:00 (One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Euros Only) to this office

Mr.Nelson Smith
Tel:+34 652 567 815
Email;oceanicagencias@netscape.net


As soon as all your award winning documents is legalise and the
Approved Legal Clearance Certificate is obtained from the Madrid Municipal
Court here in Spain,the paying bank will effect payment of your winning
prize money of US$450,000:00 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand United
States Dollars Only) within 72banking hours.

You are required to fill and return the attached Payment Scheme Form C6
to indicate your prefered mode of payment of your winning prize money
by email attachment or fax number +34 911 311 843

We look forward to your quick response and once again
congratulations!!!

Best regards
Mrs Adora Cruz.
(Claim.Dept.Sec

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Hello Zarbeita,

Welcome to Fraudwatchers.org, and thanks for posting this scam lottery letter.

And a definite fraud it is. Here are some of the ways you can tell it's a fraudulent attempt at scamming you out of your hard-earned money.

1. Note the email address it comes from: oceanicagencias@netscape.net

All netscape.net addresses are free email addresses. No legitimate business or lottery uses free email addresses to contact their winners. In fact, if you actually had won a lottery, the agency would most likely contact you in person, or by registered postal mail.

2. The letter informs you that you need to pay some "fees" of 1880 euros before you can collect your "winnings" and further informs you that you cannot have those fees deducted from your "winnings."

Any legitimate lottery would, in fact, automatically deduct any fees or taxes from your winnings before you received them. This is what is known as an "advance fee fraud." You are required to pay a fee for some large promised payoff downstream. If you did pay, you would find that the demands for payment of fees and other monies would continue until you got tired of paying. Since there is no "fund" or "winnings," the fraud just continues with the victim paying until he/she runs out of money or refuses to pay any more. Then the scammers disappear.

3. You probably don't recall entering this lottery by purchasing a ticket or paying an entry fee.

Remember, you can't win a contest you don't enter. There is no such thing as a random, big-prize drawing held on the internet.

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