Unlike the usual lottery scam mail where they claimed to have picked your email address or your "fictitious lottery number" has won the prize, the scammer is offering you a lottery prize as a gift for something you have done right. Obviously, you don't know this guy and you don't know what you have done to earn a lottery prize from him. And you are scratching your head as to how "sincerity, courage and trust worthiness" has anything to do with lottery. But all you have to know is that this incredible story is a scam, and some poor bloke trying to scam you. There is no free lunch.
That several thousands of dollars saved from this scam is better spent on the national lotto ticket at the shop near home.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Mrs. Sandra Jones"
<compensationoffice@compensationcentre.info>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct
2007 12:19:49 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: MY LITTLE TOKEN WITH GOOD
FAITH.
My Dear Friend.
Due to your effort, sincerity,
courage and trust worthiness you showed at
the course of theUk Online Lotto
winning cheque shipment to your location,
I want to compensate you and show
my gratitude to you with the sum of
$500,000USD (Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) I have
authorized the finance house where I deposited the
money to issue you
international certified bank draft cashable at your
bank.
My dear winner,I will like you to contact the CEO in charge of
the
financehouse for the
collection of this international certified
bank draft.
The name of the Person with your Cheque is Mrs Anna
Joy
EMAIL:
annajoy238@yahoo.itAt the moment,
I am very busy in Sydney because of the investment projects
which myself and
my new partner Mr. Peter Hills of CTL Express Delivery
Company are having at
hand. Finally,remember that I have forwarded
instruction to Mrs. Anna Joy at
the financehouse on your behalf to send
the bank draft to you as soon as you
contact him without delay. Please I
will like you to accept this token with
good faith as this is from the
bottom of my heart. Thanks and God bless you
and your family. Hope to hear
from you soon.
My sincere advice to you
as a christian is that you should endeavour to
pay your tithe to a bible
believing church when you get the money because
I noticed it as a fudiciary
agent that you were skeptical about your
winnings when you were been ask by
the Uklotto Agency Inc to file out a
claim for your prize. And now the
current policy of the Lotto organiser is
that if an emerged winner fails to
claim up his/her winning cheque of
$600,000 it's now mandatory that this fund
can be remitted or forfeited to
the fudiciary agent in charge of this winners
file.
However, I want you to contact him immediately as soon as you
receive this
information because he is leaving for the US by the end of this
month and
this might cost a delayment for you to receive this
draft.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Sandra Jones