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Did you receive an email from Gabriel Pepe Louis telling you to contact Miguel Edward at Royal Trust BV? Well, we trust you understand that it is a scam! The Spanish Ministry of the Treasury has advised us that legitimate lottery tickets can only be purchased from authorized ticket sellers in Spain. Let us repeat that: The El Gordo and other legal Spanish lotteries are only open to Spanish residents - you CANNOT win if you are not resident IN Spain.
Here is a typical scam lottery winning notification.
Also see this page for a sample in the UK.
Below is yet another example of a fake lottery . Again, note the poor format and poor grammar. They also expect a payment in order to receive your winnings. If paying a fee to receive unsolicited winnings from a lottery makes sense to you; then you are too gullible to be allowed to have a bank account....
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:32:17 -0700(PDT)
Subject: LUCKY DIP !!
From: "EURO." <euro-spa-in@hotmail.es>
Euromillion Loteria Español Pol.Lasao, Area Anardi 611, 28090 Madrid.
Spain Branch
Ref. Nº: SG:538/101/901 Batch. Nº: Eurs/5490/9100/08.
Important Information, YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HAS WON YOU A LOTTERY.
Please your urgent response is needed.
It is our pleasure to inform you through this medium that Your email address has won a prize of Euros 950,000.00 (Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand euros Only) in category'A'micronet Lottoshop Ref. Nº: SG:538/101/901.Batch. Nº: Eurs/5490/9100/08. Winning ticket number :6-11-14-20-32-38-51.
To file your winning prize, contact your claims Company ;with your Full Name,Home and Office Tel & Fax Number,Mobile Tel Number and your Winning ticket number, Reference numbers,Batch. Nº: and amount won information for processing of your winning fund to our registered claim agent in address below:
ROYAL TRUST BV Miguel Edward Contact Email: royaltrustbv@aim.com Tel.00 34 648 660 648.
Be informed that the appointed agent will be required to swear affidavits of lotto claim also remember,all winning must be claimed not later than 30th April,
Yours Sincerely, Gabriel Pepe Louis. Co-ordinator.
NOTE CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT ONLY.
Subject: Re.Legalization fees.
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:04:31 -0400
From: royaltrustbv@aim.com Add Mobile Alert
ROYAL TRUST AGENCY BV
CALLE JUAN DE AUSTRIA 6
28804 MADRID SPAIN.
TEL/FAX:+34 648 660 648.
Attn. ,
This is to inform you that we have received your filled legalization form.Below is the information that you will need to make the payment for the affidavits of oath.
Name.Mark Kelly.
Address.Same as our office address.
You are therefore required to go to any Moneygram office(Rennies bank) close to you to send the legalization fees.
We await to hear from you to enable us complete the processing as soon as possible.
Note once you have it sent email the details to us.
Yours sincerely,
Edward Miguel.
See this page for the warning in Spanish and many other languages
"Loterías y Apuestas de Estado (LAE) would like to inform the general public that a number of groups of criminals of various nationalities are using the prestige and the commercial names of the Spanish Lottery by fraudulent means in several countries. They move easily around the whole world and use mobile telephones, PO boxes, provisional or false addresses (including real addresses of official Spanish organisations), as well as names that bring to mind prestigious institutions ("el Gordo", la Primitiva", "European Lottery Commission", etc.) They also forge the printed sheets and signatures of various banks or insurance firms.
In order to carry out the fraud, the procedure that is generally followed consists of informing the potential victim that they have been the lucky winner of a substantial prize (even if they have not participated in any draw), although they cannot collect this prize until they have paid an amount going towards the taxes, bank costs, delivery costs or insurance processing, etc. Usually, the fraudster warns their potential victim that the deadline to pay these charges is very soon and that their right to collect the prize is about to expire.
Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, that is, the Spanish Lottery, wants to inform very clearly the following:
To win a prize of the Spanish lottery is essential to have purchased previously lottery or bets of our range of products.
Spanish lottery prizes are always free of taxes and burdens.
When you are offered "prizes" that seem to be linked to the Spanish Lottery, DO NOT PAY ANY AMOUNT. We are, in all probability, before a criminal fact that must be reported to the authorities. The Spanish Police has already arrested and subjected to legal procedures some of the members of groups who were operating from Spain.
If you have any question, please contact:
sugerencias@loteriasyapuestas.es "
Click here for the huge list of the names of the currently identified lottery scams companies
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