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• hi yesterday i had an email from lottery that said i won 500000$ and they need some identify and my address to send me the money i sent my name and id and now today they sent me this email si what i really need to know is IS this really right?can it be true? u know i am a teenage and i dnt wanna get in any trouble sooo is it any possibility that this be true???help what should i do now?isnt it dangrous to sent them where thig they said???? Dear Shirin Kiyarash, Greetings to you. 19/05/2012 I Dr John Ibu, your regional claims agent, have acknowledge your information and your prize award identification details and wish to inform you that the entire Board of Australian International Lottery Corporation have approved me to direct you and also issued you this authorization winner’s we are going to fellow the legal way in order for us to avoid any scam activates, so you are required to contact the FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK . Having received your filled form in our office here,at the American Embassy Head Quarter,Abuja Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. You are thereby instructed to contact immediately Monument Bank Plc,Lagos State Branch Office. Note that you're the legitimate beneficiary winner of the FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS (US$ 500,000.00) Cash Prize won by our Lottery Programmer and your winner information is. NO:AD10226 REF:NO 475061725 SERIES:7741137002 BATCH NUMBER:7056490900/188 WINNERS NUMBER:GB8701/LPRC You’re to contact the FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK where your prize money is been deposited, it will be approved and transfer to your nominated bank account. We must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of the winners in this year's lucky dip certified by the Australian Ballot Awards Lottery Corporation for payment. You are among the winners that we are mandated to pay their prize money in this category. We also want to inform you that your fund will be release to you through our nominated bank in Nigeria (FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK ), and also note, we have forwarded your information and your winner’s certificate to the paying bank to enable them acknowledged your winning and approve you for payment as soon as possible. Below is the Contact of the paying bank details, make sure you contact the bank with the e-mail addresses below and also do contact them through a telephone conversation with there mobile numbers FIRST CITY MONUMENT BANK EMAIL: [email protected] PHONE:+2348102421855 CONTACT:MR TONY CHARLES (REMITTANCE DIRECTOR) Contact the bank with your details below; 1. Your full name: .............................. .. 2. Your full address: ............................. 3. Private Phone number: .......................... 4. Country: .............................. ......... 5. Nationality: .............................. ..... 6. Attach identification of any kind: ............. 7. Your company name:......................... ..... 8.Submit Scan copy of you’re international passport or driving license or any form of identification................ ........ Again: You are advice to keep this winning notification private and confidential until the bank transfer’s your fund to you to avoid unwarranted claiming and this might lead to cancellation or disqualification of your payment and approval of fund. Congratulations from the staff and thank you for being part of email account users program. Do not hesitate to contact me if you need any assistance. Thanks, Dr John Ibu ( +2348087477719 ) AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY CORPORATION AGENT. (2012

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  100% scam. There is no Australian, Yahoo, Facebook, Nokia, Shell, BBC, Google, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lotto Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.