E-Mail Scams, Part V: You Have Won A Lottery Or Prize

Sometimes the simplest scam is the best. Forget all that smuggling millions of out Iraq stuff -- just tell folks they have won something!

Your email address has won you $4.6M from the UK Lottery online draws held in Dubai on the 6TH of July 2007 Lucky Number:UJT:87829283.Contact Mr Ben Jyair with your official names,country,address, tel,date of draw on... for delivery of your winning cheque.

It gives us great joy to acknowledge you as the recipient of our yearly draw, held on the 16th day of July, 2007. You have therefore emerged as a recipient in the first category with an award of Two Million United States Dollar (US$2,000,000.00USD) United States dollars in this annual middle of year promo...

Dear Beneficiary, The Fondazione Di Vittorio, would like to notify you that you have been chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, educational, and business development.

The Russian Foundation for basic research would like to notify you that you have been chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, educational, and business development.

And I especially like these last two because they claim to be making reparations to victims of e-mail scams!

This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the UNITED NATIONS in Central Bank to pay 150  victims of scam $100,000 USD (One Hundred Thounsand Dollars) each. You are listed and approved for this payment as one of the scammed victims to be paid this amount, get back to this office as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $100,000 USD compensations funds.

The Coalition to Protect Contractors is a Non-Government Organization (NGO) formed in March 2006 by a group of activists, patriots and like-minds to protect the rights of Foreign Contractors in Africa. We have also extended our scope to include pursuit of payments for money inherited from the deceased. We are operating from United Kingdom at the moment for tactical reasons and have resolved to ensure justice is done for the money being owed you for long because of the unscrupulous activities, misdeeds, irregularities, exploitation, extortion, mess and disappointments by many questionable and unscrupulous characters in these African countries.