Royal Euro Casino Lottery Scam

What better way to start your day than by reading your email and finding out you won a Lottery, particularly one worth $1 Million. Don't call you boss and quit your job just yet. Unfortunately you did not really win the Royal-Euro Casino Lottery, rather you are the target of a scam often refered to as a Lottery or Nigerian scam. Scams like this often lead to financial and identity theft. Learn more about Nigerian Scams here and learn more about identity theft here.

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Following is the text of the scam email:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Royal-Euro Casino [mailto:fotoclub.lapieve@virgilio.it]
Sent: 02/20/2008 10:28 PM
Subject: Contact the payment bank.

Contact the payment bank.

This is to inform you that your email ID has
won US$1,000,000.00 in the second category of our computer ballot email
lottery with the said winning numbers giving below:

Ticket number:
5489815/06/DSP
Lucky Draw Number:16 17 30 31 38 40 5
Reference Number:
UDA/H52362/475850/REF
LOTTERY DATE: 20/02/2008

Royal-Euro Casino is a
member of European Casino Association (ECA). The ECA aims to serve as a
network for information; information that shall be used to communicate
and work with the EU institutions on anything related to casino
operations. Please contact the Clearance and
Verification department of
the payment Bank for your claim:
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Dr. Johan
Gallagher. (Director of operations).
International Remittance
Department (Direktbank N.V)
Phone:+31-610-698-903, Fax: +31-847-301-110
Email: direktbinfo1@aim.com, direktbinfo@oued.info
Web-Site: www.
direktbank.nl

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Your security file number is DNL105/WIN777/2008 (keep personal).
Failure to claim your winning prize before the dead-line stipulation of
one month will obviously mean that your winning prize will be re-staked
in our next Lottery draws, so ensure that the needful is done now and
quickly as possible.

Congratulations on your winning.

Yours
Sincerely,
Mrs. paoloe Brook (Co-Ordinator Royal-Euro Casino)
TEL/FAX:
+31-847-301-128.
Official Site: www.dptcasino.com



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Any contact with the sender of this email could result in financial and identity loses. If you received an email like this, just delete it. If you have made contact with this person you may be at risk. You should immediately contact your local law enforcement agency and or financial institution for assistance if you provided ANY personal or financial information.

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