El Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery International Promotions Programmes

Oh yes I received one too today! A real hardcopy in an envelope!
All interesting-looking with phoney names and phone-numbers and a personal signature, stamp and hand-written date. Exactly same message, just a little different. NOrmally I discard this sort of stuff immediately but this one had a regular post stamp and was posted by mailbox in Malaga!
But I know nobody (from Spain) who would just send me this amount of money just for nothing. Never trust it!
BUt it’s the best spam I’ve seen.

Great, isn’t it Tina? Thanks for sharing.

Actually, these kinds of letters started out as hand written messages. And they probably get a much higher lead return that way even though sending out hardcopy enveloped letters is more expencive for the scammers.

ya I also got the same mail from Loteria Primitiva…and I rejected it directly coz I know that it’s not gonna happen that I won any lottery…coz I hate lottery and I never played nor join any of them…nt a single time in my whole life!
but then by my curiosity..I just double check it in the net hoping to find some police blutter or such kind…then I found this”Nikkes Index”. great job nickke.
I hate those scam people.

Hello! My name is Celeste and I am from Argentina. First of all, I’m sorry for my english but I think that it is important if I talk about my experience. My mother has received a letter from Spain which said that she had won a lot of money because off a Lottery Prize. I didn´t believe what that letter says because anyone gives you money for nothing (we didn´t send a letter or anything). We don´t know how they get our address.
There were a name and a telephone number in the letter so we called. We were confused because it was from Spain but the letter was in English and the man who answered our call talked in english too. When we asked him about the way how they had gotten our address, he answered me that he wasn’t autorized to give me that information…. I had to fill a form with different things including the number of a bank account.
Thanks for that page because if I hadn´t found it, i would sent the form

I received a letter from international lotto commission.
What mean ?It is a fake propaganda? But I received it 2 times(2005 and 2007)
agent: PABLO GARCIA (ESTRELLA SEGUROS S.A Company Tel:011 34 653 252 609
and fax: 011 34 911 010 569
Reference number : MXAT/0999/171ESP
BATCH No: 12115-04/EU

Tank you for your letter

Yes it’s fake. The letter is sent by thieves that want you to believe that you are suddenly rich, and then they want you to pay just a little of your new riches in advance.
The catch is, you will never see any money.

Oh dear,
I received the same letter which every one got, Then phone me next day and asking to pay 1980 pound immediately for banking transaction cost. They given me the detail to be paid.
Name of the person …….Mr. JONATHAN SHERIF
ADDRESS …………………GRANVIA 44
MADRIO SPAIN
BANK NAME ………………CAJACAMARIAS
A/C NO…………………….ES7820650221714100010265
S.CODE……………………CECAESMM 065.

Once I paid the money then only they can release my winning amount to my bank. I went through the google search and find out this site and i got enough informations about the silent cheat.
So this is what happened with me. Thanks for everybody’s comment to prevent me to jump their trap. I wish this all causing people go behind the bars the whole life.

If only i had searched the web yesterday!!!
Well fortunately i have not sent them my bank details.
I received the very same letter yesterday, at first i thought it was too good to be true. I thought yeah right this is a scam. But because the form attached also gave the option of a certified cheque, i thought it might be true.
So unfortunately this morning i faxed them the form a photo copy of my photo card drivers liceence. my only worry is can they use this for any other scams.
I don’t believe i fell for this!
Thank goodness for this site.

Nice…. the letter with the banks and personal details was sent…..
now what?
when they called this morning asking for 1.200£ i got suspicious and i searched the net and i found this. thank you very much for this page!

I got a letter on friday telling me i had won the lottery (1.5m Euro’s) but how do they get your details? im only 17 have no credit card dont register on any sites it is realy odd 90% of me knew it was a scam 10% of me whated to try it out and was hoping it was real thies things are just to good to be true you font get anything for free, lol.

I would just like to thank you for your web site as I also recieved this letter in the mail today. All the wording is similar to yours only the ref. and batch numbers differ. This is really upsetting as life already throws enough daily challenges your way, now for something like this to happen is just so darn wrong. They get you in this amazing spirit that makes you feel that finally something has gone your way only to discover it is just another evil persons out there to get from you what they can, like the goverment is not enough to be aware of! I would have probably gone along with this scam had I not had the internet. Wonder how many out there without this technology have walked into this sad and inhumane scam. Hope these idiots rot in hell. Thanking you again for your consideration in setting up this website.

I just received a ”la Primitiva Lotto commission” letter and I was at first really happy! the truth is that I often go to Spain as I am a Spanish Teacher, but I never played the Lotto. I was quite concerned however because it was too good to be true. I am actually in financial problems and that looks like ”somebody had listen to my prayers”. However, I decided to check in the Internet first because they ask for bank details or an ID. I am quite please (and desilusioned at the same time!) that I was wise this time. thank you for confirming my fears!
Annie

Thanks for you nice words Annie. I’m really glad that I could be of some assistance.

Never been a victim of a scam…But today I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM SPAIN. Yes the real one with official stamps, signed….DR. MARTIN GONZALEZ IS MY AGENT to contact if I want to get my seven hundred and fifty thousand euros. I BELIEVED tHAT I really won because everything seems genuine. I decided to do some research and I am so glad that I did. Despite the fact that I am still very disappointed I will still play the lottery and you know (fingers crossed) I might well be a WINNER…… And remember NEVER EVER give your bank details, ID….. if you are suspicious.THANKS FOR SETTING UP THIS SITE…….

I was still wondering either this is a real thing or juz a fack fool that would make people thought that it might make people rich or instad making u rich from stealing other people bank account. I don’t think that this is the end n im quite positive to report this to the police which i feel this is the best decision to make before it might get worse, because according to the Law it is the serious offence under the breach of trush and cheating under the Law. I am relieve coz i hv found tis nikke page to RELISE ME……………………

Received a letter on the 26th April 2007 from La Primitiva Lottery signed Jose Miguel Rodriguez Promotions Director and contact person was Mario Sanchez saying we had won €615,810,00 thought my luck was in my husband said from the start this sounds to good to be true, but we thought you never know that someone might be looking down on us, so to be on the safe side as they wanted personal details also on us receiving the money thay wanted a payment of 10%, well had a look on the internet ad of course it was a SCAM, thank you for so much for setting up this site. I just feel so sorry for people that might not have access to the internet and have sent there details.

Had one too, unfortunatley older or less wise people will respond
unless you personally buy a ticket you have not won a thing anywhere
in the world.

I bought a el grando lotto ticket in 2004, (didnt win) then last week I got a letter from El Gordo I’d won 15,155 euros yippee,Thinking it was something to do with ticket I had bought in 2004 , faxed the form and waited for the cheque, then today I got a phone call from Antonio Gonzalez (with indian accent) telling me to send £1465 for insurance and bank charges, told him that I am a pensioner and dont have 1465pence so he slammed the phone down , just another scam and another fool to believe it

I have reported this scam to watchdog consumers services, if they put it on their web site and maybe mention it on the tv show, more people will know that its a scam

Thanks for the website!!!!!
I thought I am the lucky winner as well…………..to good to be true!!!!!!!!

Can I upload the letter in this website?

Joyce, what a good move! That’s the thing to do. Spread the word more and more, and sooner or later at least one international police organisation will have to start dealing with this.

Chihon, please do. If it’s a new one, I will make a new page out of it. If it already exists on the site, it’s a good thing that we can show people that come searching, that a lot of people received identical, or almost identical emails.

WELL I GOT THE SAME BUT NOT IN MAIL BY E-MAIL AND I WAS SO HAPPY I THOUGHT IT WAS TRUE .I DECIDED TO LOOK ON THE ENTERNET FOR THIS LOTTERY AND I FOUND THIS WEBSITE THENK YOU CAUSE IT HELPED ALOT

It seems they operate now in Switzerland. I got a mail from this criminal organization yesterday. The adress from this criminal organization: Casa de la Primitiva C/Perez sin Numero, C/P 28019 Madrid-Espania and Seguridad agencias y Representantivo Calle Juan cruzeria sin numero 22009 Madrid Espana Tel: 0034 648-771-173 Fax:0034 652 610 860 Attention to Don Paulo Eduardo e-mail adress: estrelliasegu@madrid.com or estrelliaagent@k.ro

Hi Nikke and everybody

I got the same similar letter today. It is indeed very clever, the letter came from Spain (Malaga), it looks very official, I know there is an El Gordo lottery in Spain, it mentions the official spanish betting name, an official stamp and signature, a real insurance company (in my case Seguros Bilbao).

However, a few things just could not possibly make sense, first of all I did not buy a ticket for the lottery!! Nobody gives anything away for nothing.

Secondly how could they have got my address? I have now changed all my email accounts and other web services to exclude such details, and I would urge anyone to do the same.

Thirdly, it was in English, even though it was from Spain and I’m portuguese. And you know that if someone is asking for your bank details you are asking for trouble.

I went on the internet straight away, searched the spanish el gordo lottery, they have several lotteries, checked the winning lucky numbers for 2007 and none of them matched. I then matched the whole name, i.e. ”El Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery International Programme” and presto here appears this website and I had the confirmation of the scam.

What to do now really, is the question. As I said I have changed my details on the internet, and I might look to find the BBC’s watchdog website. I was thinking that maybe I would get in touch with the spanish ”loterias y apuestas del estado” byemail, namely the bilbao or malaga’s delegations, but after having read your site the perpetrators might not even be in Spain, it sounds like it is a very intricate web of deceipt.

I just hope that any further people affected have the fortune of searching the web and finiing this website.

Paulo

Hi guys… I received a letter too…. I knew that was fake… nothing is free and easy in this world as lotteria primitiva wants us to believe. I’m wondering…… is this a lucrative business for these people? how do they make money? ot it is just a joke? just people that hasn’t got anything to do and want to spend time somehow?

I will be great if someone has got some explanation about these letter…

best regards

thanks to Joyce now I know….. they ask you for money after a while… I see…. hope that none is going to believe these fake letters.

Recieved the lottery letter today along with an email offer of 150kg of gold dust for $12,000 that’s 2 scams in a day they obviously have a successful hit rate. These scams go back 20+ years. Threats of violence and in the case of Nigeria murders have been known to have been comitted. Give them an invitation and they will come knocking in some cases. Serious stuff>

dear sir
it is reauy apitty .i found no vent through i can ger my courier .
the banks here in algeria made no regulatoin.the told me thar
they culd not proceed in the way to wanted it until they recieve
the courier.so please send it and you will have every thing
right and delivered.
mail.goutti84@yahoo.fr
DERROUICHE MENOUER
street yakhlef kouider safsaf benbadis 223001
wilaya of sidi balabes
ALGERIE

badr bank
groupe regionale d exploitatoin
agence locale de banbadis.765
code benque 0003
code guichet 00765
swift badr dzal
765 053356 01201 0.33 derrouiche menouer

mail goutti84@yahoo.fr neme: derrouiche menouer.

Please sir,
I want to ask you about the easiest way to get my winning chek.
In my county ( Algerian banks) a servery slow to do this kind of tings.
I wonder if you may eb me by sending messages or e mails to the britic embassy in Algeria to allow me get a visa to te U.K indprder to fulfil my file there
So deare sir, Ibeg you to do the necessary witme and I’m very thankfut.
Your

THANK.j’ have wanted the cheqoue by courier. by the this been able bounque my demonde les.v.p.: to send it by courier:

DERROUICHE MENOUER
street yakhlef kouider safsaf benbadis 223001
wilaya of sidi balabes
ALGERIE

badr bank
groupe regionale d exploitatoin
agence locale de banbadis.765
code benque 0003
code guichet 00765
swift badr dzal
765 053356 01201 0.33 derrouiche menouer

yeah, i received the same form telling similar stuff, the difference were only money amounts and names of so called agents..
thanks for revealing bullshit

I recently had a postal letter telling me I’d won heapsa money (yeah right) on the release of the ‘LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME’ you don’t get something for nothing right?! And as I’ve never even been to Spain (sad but true) I knew straight off it was a scam….but I’d really like to know how they got hold of my home addy…I don’t really send off for stuff so it’s quite confusing…hmmm..

Hi Nikke.
Thank you for this site. It is the 10.5.07 and today I have received the same type of letter as all these people. I have heard of this type of letter before in this country and was very wary of it. I think the best thing people can do is to let the media know of this scam and therefore perhaps many more people wouldn’t be taken in by them.
Thank you all for your comments it does help.

Believe it or not they have hit Ireland now too. These Nigerian scams sure seem to get around! Our letter was identical in detail to Caren in the UK (April 26th) above. Deep down we knew it was too good to be true but wanted to check it out online anyway and were pleased to find your site with all this information. Pity though as it would have been nice to be able to afford that little ”Spanish” place in the sun! Mind you, we’ll be playing the numbers provided by these kind people in the REAL lotto this weekend – you never know, they may have just supplied us with the winning numbers!

Hi everyone.

09.05.07 – I received a letter very similar from the ‘La Primitiva’ and was very suspect on opening hence checking on tinternet straight away. Just as i thought, same old story and pretty obviously a scam really. For a start, who would send you confirmation of a lottery win (several hundred thousand Euros) on a game you have never played? Who would send it on shite paper which has been photocopied millions of times? A vile scum bag looking to play on innocent victims that’s who. Do not go any further with this letter, you’re bound to regret it!!!

Hopefully someone will catch up with these pricks soon.

For the record the current disguise is ‘Jose Miguel Rodriguez’ prize amount € 615,810.00 posted from Correos, Malaga..

Hello
My name is Rene , I’m Dutch but currently living in Germany.
We received a simular letter today (11th may-2007) from La Primitiva Lottery Award stating that we have won Euro 415.410=.
Since we play a lot of lottery we thought it could be true. We made the phone call to Spain to ask for some clarification. Like all the others we got the same direction fax the form and the money will be tranferred. This is all to good to be true. The stamp from spain and the contact number made us a believer of our luck. Thanks to the internet we are back on our feet again and will keep on working for our money.
Reading all your stories helps a lot thank you all and you Nikke

I have received the same letter as everybody here inthis web! I did all the procedures but did not send my bank accounts !!! Tomorrow thet are going to call me and I will let you all know about this rubbish group and what they are doing!!!!! I am going to continune the process to see what happens and they have to send me the biggggggggg moneyyyyyyy on a cheque (as they have mentioned on their approval letter!!!)

Will seeeeeeee !!!!! Ofcourse they will not call me again after tomorrowwwwwwww!!!

Thank you for everything coz I was thinking that whole my life has been changed!!!

Thanks a lot
Sara

i have got the same letter, i have to say i half belive it because i know that around christmas time i did enter a few lotteries and now i do not know if its a scam or not because of that!

Dear Sir or Madam:

I am in receipt of a letter dated April 26, stating I have won a lot of money. Can you tell me if I really won or if it is a scam of some sort?

Please let me know about this matter as soon as you are able.

Thank you for your attention to the above.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Vasquez

well how many people did recive this award, is it realy fake?????

nice try hope this dont happend to my mon, she will for sure try this.

thanks for the website really helpfull

diego

MY HUSBAND HAS JUST RECEIVED ONE OF THESE LETTERS.WE WERE SO UNIMPRESSED BY THE BIG WIN THAT HE WENT FOR A LITTLE SLEEP AND I COOKED THE DINNER.WHERE DID THEY GET OUR ADDRESS? WE HAVE TWO POSSIBLE ADDRESSES FOR OUR HOME AND THE ONE USED IS NOT THE ONE WE USE EVERYDAY.IN THE SIX YEARS WE HAVE LIVED HERE I HAVE NEVER EVER USED THIS ADDRESS. IS THERE ANY USE GIVING THIS LETTER TO OUR LOCAL GARDA OR TO THE SPANISH EMBASSY? IF NOT I’M GOING TO FRAME IT AND IMPRESS MY FRIENDS. YOUR SITE MAKES GREAT READING . THANK YOU FOR GIVING US A FORUM TO ALERT OTHERS TO THIS FRAUD. ANGELA (IN IRELAND) P.S. IM E 615,810.00 POORER NOW THAN I WAS A FEW HOURS AGO. SO SAD

Heads up! This is not isolated to e-mails! I just opened a very similar document claiming I have won nine hundred and eighty five thousand nine hundred and fifty Euros that arrived the old fashioned way, my mail man. I did notice the address was Madrid, Spain, I was wondering if anyone else may have stayed in Mexico at a hotel owned by the Spanish. I think this could be the connection, they are usually all inclusive resorts. Just a thought.

Dear All!
My grandmom have recieved the same letter today, and she seems to be the happiest person on earth. I too was happy to see her happy but before proceeding with the procedure I thought of checking the internet to confirm its authenticity, I am glad I found this website and did not forward my bank details to them. However, I just can’t decide how to let my grandmom know of this :(. This would be just so upsetting for her to know.

Now the most important part:

Many of you might be thinking as to how they get your address and name

In my case, I can say for sure that it is basically the ”Telephone directory” that’s working for them. They take out any name along with its addess and no. and send in the letter on the same. I am sure this is the only way they can have your address and name. So stop getting worried about it.

I WON

Yeah right, as above I received a letter and wondered why my insurance company had started doing lotteries. Imagine my horror when I found out that Estrella Seguros did not in fact have any knowledge of any lottery winnings. So they have contacted thier Spanish based office (the head office) and are going to claim my winnings for me. How nice of them. only the person claiming the prize isnt going to be me (shock horror). Apparently I have received a call from a family member as I am (gasp) in Spain on holiday and advised that I have won 815,810.00 euros. Apparently I have the 2500 euros on me to claim the prize and can give it to them.
Of course the Estrella Seguros Insurance company investigation branch are going to end up very busy. This letter even has their logo and they are P*@@%D

My niece recieved this letter yesterday. She is 4 years old!!! How the hell would this company manage to get her details?

Sadly my sister (her mum) thought it may be a genuine letter but luckily decided to check with me before sending on her details.

But i am thinking it might be funny to contact them with the details of a 4 year old just to see what sort of reply they give.

Hi all!
I’m the winner today!!! I called the office half an hour ago and they confirmed my prize. What a relief that I’ve found that web site before I tell my all family how lucky I am.

Ilona, could you tell us a bit more about the call.
What did they want from you now?

Hi

my wife revieced a letter from loteria primitiva yesterday, and we won 297.486,22 € we live in copenhagen, the adresse detail they have sent it to was in danish.
I call the agent Don Carlos valentino , and he asked for the reference number and sercurity number then he sayed congratulation you have won 397.486,22 € fax me your details and call me afterwords.

Hi Ib,

If you decide to fax them your details, make sure you don’t send anything that might be used to withdraw money from your bank account. Even though Danish bank security is good, you don’t want anybody to have details about you that can be used in a more deliberate scam than most of these lottery scams are.

Hey everyone, I got letter from La Primitiva lotery about my win, But I was exactly playing that lottery on the internet, and the lucky numbers witch are in the letter are exactly my…………and another think, I sent them my accout information and my fotocopy of my passport by fax, then I call to number (to spain) witch was in my letter and my agent said my that my win will by in my account in one week………..nobody asked my about paing anything to them……..so what do you think abou it ? because now, how I reed this page I realy dont now what I have to think about it……

Scooby,

I have some follow-up questions for you.

First of all. Where and how did you play it online?
It would be very easy for a scammer to set up a fake site where gullable players would leave their contact addresses and (surprise, surprise) win a lot of money.

Keep talking to them if you want, and then report back when they want the first commission/tax/fee in advance.

I have received a similar letter, after sending the requested detals, Mr Martin Perez Of Andalucia Seguros Int. S.A of Tel No + 34 655629 095 confirmed that i had won the lottery and he insisted on me forwading him Euros 1752 by bank transfer to an individual person account as per given details. He is still calling me to inquire if i have forwarded the funds.

I wonder why these people are still in the market after all these scam letters have been caught.

Friends be careful!!!! Hope this comes to an end soon.

well thanx you helped seal our decision to ignore this letter which is frightfully alike the ones on this website. cheers to you all.

I also received one of these letters in the post. I immediately new it was a scam and my susipicions were correct. Interestingly the *real* Groupama Security have this notice on their website:
”We have been notified of a series of letters purporting to relate to ‘the Spanish Lottery’ and allegedly involving ‘Groupama Seguros’, the Spanish subsidiary of Groupama.
Please note that these are not genuine letters and anyone receiving such correspondence should not respond or provide the personal details requested.
We take these letters very seriously and are in course of a detailed investigation to identify the senders. If such a letter is received, please inform us immediately via customer.service@groupama.co.uk and send the original letter to:
Stephen Teeling
Technical Claims Controller
1 Port Way
Port Solent
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO6 4TY”
http://www.groupama.co.uk/latestnews/news/060421_spain.asp
Please don’t fall for this – it’s a scam.

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Thanks for that link Diplo, I’ll add it up in the main article.

We received one, as well, in Germany. I was surprised to see one come through the old fashioned post mail, but I suppose those who look at fraudulent scams will attempt the unusual. It claims we won ”785,810.00” Euros. I’m about to go and quit my job! Seriously, the letter looks far from professional, as the seals in the upper corners are bad copies and the bar code on the second page lacks realism. I will give the initiators of this one item of credit: their English is improving.

dear friends,
i also received letter from El Gordo lottery in Spain that ive benn selected as a random email selection and i’ll be paid lakhs of euros,and one attached form is there with official logo ,contact no etc,so i gave them my account no,name,and swift code,now i fear if can they withdraw money from my account and what to do?pl advice me.

i received a letter yesterday (in the post) from LA PRIMITVIA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME. at first i thought it was too good to be true, then i got a little curious and decided to investigate the logos on the letter head, ‘Loterias y Apuestas del Estado’. i typed them in a the website opened up, which was official, i checked the lottery numbers and they didnt match. i then decided to phone the number and a man answered the phone with an african accent (nigerian?) and he said i should phone them as soon as i fax my details over.
i searched the internet agin and typed in LA PRIMITVIA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME into the search engine and this site came up and other sites saying SCAM SCAM! which comfirmed my suspcious!

thanks this site saved me from sending my details

ps my contacts name was Dr Riko David

Well enough said, enough heard. I received the exact copy of this letter as everyone else this morning. They must have a lot of money to give away considering the amount of promises they’ve made in the past. I was just about to fill and return the form but decided to look up on the net for this so called “LA Primitiva Promotion Program”. To my amazement there isn’t anything like it; it’s all a set up. I’m absolutely gutted. The good news is, in my head I was living in riches for a couple of hours but switched back to my broke self again. Another thing I noticed about these letters is that they seem to have a new Vice President every single day since all the names are different. People be cautious, like everyone else IT IS A SCAM.

This is really disgusting. I got this same letter today 24th of May, 2007. First I wondered how they got my address then I remembered that I have my name and address in the BT catalogue. They may have gotten it there. What surprised me most was that I have bever played lottery in my whole life neither had I been to spain. The letter sent was looking so genuine, stamped, a picture of two men giving a woman a cheque at the top right hand corner, a form for me to fill etc… but then I was wondering why my name was not on the letter it self…only on the envelope. I just reasoned that they would have sent this to a thousand and one persons. My God. It will fool a whole lot of people. I was asked to contact Mr Pedro Diego, foreign operation Manager of Grupo Bilbao Security, Spain. They had their telephone number and fax numbers in the letter.
I just thought I should go do a search on the internet and then I stumbled to this website. I must really thank you for putting up this site. I actually thought I will give them a call but was not ready to pay a dime if it comes to them asking me to pay some monies into some accounts.
The person who came out with this idea must be really sick… really really Sick.

I have been reading the comments with interest as I received a letter this morning. It’s along the same lines as the rest but they seem to change the security company -mine is Bilbao seguras SL and the contact is Dr Paul David. I too wondered how they had targeted me until I read on a website that they seem to be targeting immigrants or people with ”foreign” sounding names not indigenous to the country they are living in. This would tie in with me as my name is Polish although I was born in Scotland. I also use my own name although I am married and my husband did not receive a letter-presumably because his name sounds ”normal”. I would still like to know how the scamsters get hold of the information in the first place but in the meantime like everyone else I urge everyone to ignore all such letters.

Hi guys, I’m 20 and a student and can you imagine how shocked i was reading that I’d ”supposedly” won Six Hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred and ten euros.WOW that meant i wouldnt have to work over summer to go on hols!!!! anyways ive just come online to google it and thankgod i found this website!!!!! how the hell do they have my address? SHame i didnt win but do i send it off to that address up top and it get sorted?

I too received the same letter thru an ordinary mail with perfect Spanish stamp on the envelope which encloses a lettter saying Attention: Winner and a form to fill all the personal detalils including bank details.

I never ever played lottery in my life and in fact if get money like this which is not part of my hard work earnings, I don’t know how to spend that. At the moment I received the letter I raised a lot questions in myself exactly the same as I find in this blog. So finally, I want to say one thing to the fuck-in idiots stop sending this sort of stupid mail/email and still even doesn’t feel the non-sense I advise them to go thru this blog.

I’ve received letter this morning too…… my contact person is Fred Marino, both contact numbers are mobiles and in addition all ticket, serial and winning numbers match the numbers from the mail from the top of this page (january 2005 :-)))))…………

Got the letter this morning , La primitiva promotions programme, won 615,810 euros.Contact person is Mario Sanchez, tel 0034 692 318 574, fax 0034 911 817 413, signed by Jose Miguel Rodriguez-promotions director. Agent is Grupo Bilbao Security Company (Securigos Bilbao). Asking for bank details, passport copies, next of kin’s details. says I have to pay 10% of my winnings to Bilbao Securigos as they bought this ticket in my name. I DIDN’T ask them to buy any tickets for me, never been to Spain, but WORRIED about my address being known to CROOKS! Put The letter in the bin or better send it to Watchdog, the one in Hampshire. Everyone, please keep sending your comments and we might bust this scam one day!

i too recieved the letter sayin i had one 615,810.00 euros (exactly the same cash prize as emily) i am a student as well so the thought of having that money was exciting. luckily i have been watching the (REAL HUSTLE). you never win anything you dont know youve entered, an obvious scam!! the actual text in the letter was beleivable however the shitty copy and paste job done to the logos gave it away. thankyou lindquist.com for clearing the air

i apologise for my spelling im just f***ed off

well just got one this morning and i tried to look it up on any web site scams and i have not found it. euro sweepstake lottery company sa. his name is Mario Ortiz. i called him up and he said why am i worried and not to worry just to send him the papers back. the papers do not say to pay him money but it says that i will have 10% off my winnings. attached,is a processing form,fill it out and return it to DAILY CARE SECURITY COMPANY S.A for processing and remittance of your winning fund. if someon]e got the same thing as i did write back!!

thanks again!

is there some real one’s

Stephano,

Just as in the off-line reality, there are lots of real lotteries, but they all share the one catch, that you need to purchase a lottery ticket in order to win.

Received a letter today in the post, however, knew it would be to good to be true so then I checked the internet, thanks for the information, oh well dreams will have to stay on hold ha!

I just recieved a letter my postal service stating almost the exact same things as you all have said. I am certainly confused how they got my info, because my name is not in any phone directory and they have my married name on the documents. I have traveled alot and played many lotteries. I LIVE inthe UNITED STATES so this is spreading even quicker than any of us realize. I almost belived it. FAT CHANCE they will hear from me. The letters were well written and very offical in text and print. Biggest problem I found is that most lotteries that people win those large amounts of money are not just done with minimal infoand banking transfer. There is alot more in the process of identifying the winner and the authinticity. So be very aware. Here is some of the names and info used in the letter I recieved. The contact numbers are 011 34 699 616 466, fax 011 034 911 412 736. The contact person was Fred Marino, Foreign Service Manager of LA ESTRELLA DE SEGUROS S. A. The email address given was laestrella@consultant.com The other type of address given on the document was Pasaje Serrano N21,28008 Madrid Spain
Italy office:Via Piantoni no.9,Brescia Italy

It was also signed and stamped by one Antonio Garcia, Vice President
THE LETTER HAD NO RETURN ADDRESS ON THE ENVELOPE!!

WORD TO THE WISE LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP!!! THESE PEOPLE WILL MOST LIKELY NEVER GET CAUGHT AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO ROB INOCENT PEOPLE AS LONG AS THERE ARE GULABLE PEOPLE LIVING IN THIS WORLD!! THEY ALSO WILL NOT REGRET THE HEARTACHE AND PAIN THEY BRING UPON OTHERS, FOR THAT MATTER THEY JUST DONT CARE!!!!

I just got a letter today as well, seems they’re now targetting people in Ireland, seeing as they’ve failed everywhere else!! Mine was also LOTERIAS Y APUESTAS DEL ESTADO & LA PRIMITIVA, signed by JOSE MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ and again to give 10% to them. Yeah right!! So tell me when was I in spain that I bought a ticket!!
I am sending to the Fraud Squad here in Ireland so they can follow up on it.
Great website, without it alot would be scammed

I feel aggrieved. i only won €615810 and I have to contact Mr Anonio Sanchez. How come you got more than me. This world is so unfair. Sounds like an attempt at identification theft. By the way my son has just pointed out that the watermark is a fake also. It is injet printed. Now I know I really got jipped.
Good website. Keep up the good work.

I only won same as you Francis, 615810 euros. Pretty hacked off it was not more. Jose Miguel is asking for my passport number or a copy of my driving license. It is an attempt at identity theft, and a very poor attempt at that.

Great Site. Some great Comments

David, Scotland

Francis and David. Thanks for you comments.
I think the setup is to attempt an ID theft if possible, but otherwise to just try to gain some level of authority before starting to ask for fees, taxes and commissions.

I have just received a letter from Spain (with a genuine Spanish stamp on it), telling me that I won 785,510.00 euros out of 8,640,610.00 euros in this so-called lottery, which I knew I didn’t enter at all (I don’t play any lottery). The wording seems to be convincing, it attached a copy of a Payment Processing Form asking for personal info and bank detail. The contact on my letter is Frank Rogers on tel: 0034 680 189 185, fax: 0034 685 561 143, and the Managing Director is Mariano Xavier. But from the quality of the paper, the shitty printed loco and watermark on it gave the whole game away! I knew this is a scam right away, but just out of curiosity, I check it out online and find this site with people who have encountered exactly the same thing as I have.

The people who are behind this are VERY VERY SICK IN THEIR MINDS, and I hope they will be caught and locked behind bar for life very soon!!!

I guess I knew it was a scam as soon as I opened the letter but there’s always a glimmer of hope? So I logged on and searched and this came up. Oh well. Next time, eh? Makes me laugh how all the ‘claims agents’ have the most comedy ridiculously cliche Spanish names. My guy was called Don Pedro Perez. Thanks Nikke…

well, i guess i can only add to what you guys already said.
i also received a letter from spain with a spanish stamp from loterial y apuestas del stado which claimed that i won eur 615.810.00 in the euromillions super loterie d’espana signed by a raul gomez. i was supposed to call a don jose pablo from mejor global seguros s.a. tel 0034 605 389 362 fax 0034 911 814 140.
i did even call and the guy told me that i did have won the $$$, so i faxed the thing, fortunately w/o my bank acct. information. too stupid i did not find this website earlier, and i am going to report the entire thing with the police tomorrow.
i also found a website which says that they have already been arrested.
https://www.european-lotteries.org/data/info_127/ELGORDO_fraud.pdf
i did not disclose any information about myself which is not anyway available on the internet, so i hope i am fine…

Hi to all

Yes, luckily just feeling happy for a little while. So the disappointment was not so intense. Thank you for this site. I received my letter from International promotions. I am from South Africa. Hope these hooligans get caught.

Like many others just recieved a letter saying that I have won 615,810 euros.

I go to Spain regularly and speak reasonable spanish. I phoned the number given and spoke in Spanish but was answered in English. Every time I spoke in Spanish i was anwerd in English. He appeaed not to speak Spanish. This one was called Don Pablo Chavez..

In spain you would not use the title Don in a letter it would be Senor. Very dodgy just as well I am suspicious. Thanks for this site lad I checked it out

I have received a letter which had a genuine spanish stamp on it. It’d said I’d won the lottery along with 15 other international winners. Yeah right…it certainly only took 20 seconds to realise it was nothing but a scam. The print was awful. They copied the logo off a genuine spanish logo by the looks of things. How can they possibly believe anyone is going to go along and quite happily give their details to them? Duh? Anyway, I’ve been informed FROM THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT yeah…how convincing, I’d won GBP 715,810.00 in cash! And obviously congratulating me…well, for their information I still went into work!

It also suggests that due to false practices (hahahaha) they ask that we keep the award to ourselves and strictly from public notice until the claim has been processed and money remitted as part of their security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted abuse of the program by unscrupulous individuals (hahaha).

The claims agent is Emmanelao Gomez who happens to be the foreign service manager of ESTRELLA SEGUROS S.A. On Tel: 00 34 692 511 442 or Fax: 00 34 911 311. If I don’t claim before the 25th June 2007 the winnings will be returned to the MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA as unclaimed fund. They would like to inform me 10% of the winnings belongs to ESTRELLA SEGUROS. as part of their commission for acting on my behalf! As if, I haven’t even played the lottery in Spain, let alone Madrid! There is a name with signature going straight through it, and the name printed is Jose Miguel Rodriguez, Promotion Director. There’s also a naff bar code. The address this letter came from is supposedly Apartadode Correos 129, 28085, Madrid, Spain.

I recieved a similar letter yesterday fro El Gordo Spanish Sweepstake. All the information was the same as the other subscribers to this site however my claims agent was a Pablo Garcia ph 0034 635-915-163. I contacted Mr ”Palo Garcia” and got a very dodgey response which I thought was odd since I was one of their ”big winners” in their lottery! Hell of a nice thought to be gifted loads of money, but reality is these scammers play the numbers game and rely on the minority falling victim to their prey.

I recieved the same letter as the others for my boss who was away at the time so I thought I would surprise him with these winnings and If I did all the work maybe we could split the winnings. So I had copy of his passport and faxed it with the information causiously asking for a cheque(thank God). I was so excited I started multiplying the euro into our dollar,taking out their 10% and dividing it in two for my boss and I, who by the way is a very generous man and i had no doubt he would have shared it sin ce he didn’t spend any money to win it, ha ha. Then something hit me —-go on the net and check it out – I felt like such a big fool when I got on your sight- how could I be so gulible. I am too ashamed to tell my boss. I hope they don’t use the copy of his passport for anything fraudulant. I would have wised up if they had asked for money though, I didn’t have it to give them. Take it from the winnings I would have said. Thanks for saving my ass though, your web sight is wonderful.

Hmmm…Yeah – how come some people got more than €615,810?!! I feel so left out of the big money now 🙂
So – if I had been offered €45,489,285 would I be more tempted?! 🙂
I mean really – There’s really no point in claiming if it’s that little! 🙂 It’s got to be at least a mill surely!! 🙂

Anyway – I got this lovely letter today in Dublin from Spain with the Spanish stamp posted from Malaga. The usual things are on it – premium numbers for both phone call and fax number – and I SO MUST CLAIM by June 15th!

One thing I’m wondering – can I actually post the letter to someone if it would be of any help?
(…..and sure remember folks, your health is your wealth!)

its going to bite them on their back-side soon enough, thanks to technology.Size DOES matter after-all,’cause the more they try to scam,the less their power becomes! ironic? no,it’s karma!!

yeap.. they are still at it! I got my exciting news this morning with a Malaga postal stamp on it… I had won Euros 617,310.00 from the Euro Milliones (Ah! logo sucks!) Any way this is a notification from Fererro Guti and Mapfe Marketing S.L

What’s the old saying ”you have to be in it to win it” Well thanks for entering me in it without my klnowledge !!!!!

Anyway surfers beware of the Estrellas Seguros S.A. Euromilliones Loteria notification…

Thanks for the site .. really useful !

hi!i have just recieved an almost exact letter from ‘Elgordo Spanish National Lottery’ i have been contacted by agents who say i should go to Madrid and stay in a hotel for four days prior to the winnings presentation! Financially unable to do this it looks like i will not have my £68500 after all!!bummer!!!Looks like my dreams of a nice holiday, car and house are all but a fantasy, oh well!incidentally i did write to the agents who call themselves ‘Avangarde consultations’ and said that i hoped they would understand that i am disabled and financially disadvantaged and not discriminate and send my prize to me!unfortunately their response went along the lines of ‘sorry, nothing we can do’.i’m about to reply and ask them to donate my winnings to charity………………………………………………….

Thx guys
I got the same letter today, spanish stamp, with different contact details and I’m glad I foud this site.
I’m not disclosing any more details because this guys have my address and name and apparently know more about me than I know about them.

Apparently they hand out different ammounts/contact details to different preys so they know who got which letter with each details… or are there people getting letters exacly (i mean exacly) the same?

This means that if I was to say here which details I had gotten in my letter they would know (if they came to this site) that I had spotted and blown the horn about their scam.

It’s scary… someone should take this to the police. (I might well do).

Watch-out!!!!!!
I just received one of these letters today June 6, 2007 with familiar details
I have emailed a ”Dr. Carlos Blanco”. I just want to hear what lies he has to tell me.
Thanks to your website.

Hello.
Yes, i too have been a victime. I received a letter today, with the exact same details. This time it was 850,000 euros!!! After calling up the numbers stated on the letters, i could tell the people i spoke to WERE NOT SPANISH. They didnt even have a Spanish accent, instead, and accent more along the lines of Nigerian… This was enough to arouse suspicion. Their telephone manor was also not professional. After this, i decided to look in the net, and hopefully came accross this site, that confirmed this stupidity! Well done guys!
Great site, keep it up!

Hi, I recieved a Loteria Primitiva Lottery award notice today sent from Malaga, spanish stamp, like many others I have been awarded 615,810-I wish-and asked to contact my agent Sanchez Rodriguez, which seems to be a combination of other names people have mentioned. As soon as I read it I was suspicous, but thought I would check it out on the internet just in case, your site confirmed that unfortunatly for me it’s an obvious identity scam.
Thanks for the help, I’m thinking of displaying my letter around my village to warn others, especially those without the internet.
Thanks again-Tracy

i had got some thing like this

ScarLet Courier LTD
ADDRESS OF HEAD OFFICE:Link Place, BRIGHTON,
Sussex, BN1 7DX,ENGLAND
Tel: +44-703-190-9145

Attn: AMEET KUMAR YADAV ,

You are welcome to ScarLet Courier LTD Dispatch UNIT an affiliate of the IRISH ONLINE NATIONAL LOTTERY We are pleased to be at your service. Scarlet Courier is Regulated and Stipulated by the Finacial Service Authority(FSA).,the finacial institutions that Govern all Finacial activities in the United Kingdom.

This office has been Notified by the IRISH ONLINE NATIONAL LOTTERY of the amount won by you with their National lottery .This means that you have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Department at the headquarters of the IRISH ONLINE NATIONAL LOTTERY.

The original copy of your winning certificate, together with a covering document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for Claims) from the British government stating that the money was obtained legally through the IRISH ONLINE NATIONAL LOTTERY
will be sent to you as soon as you meet with any of the option selected.

You can now begin the final step of the claims process, which is the transferring of your cash prize to you. With regards to this, there are three options open to you, you are required to select the most convenient of the three.

The options, together with their associated conditions are presented below:

Courier of your winning cheque to you via any of this channel listed below:

DHL

Mailing: �150.00
Insurance: �250.00
Vat: �150.00
TOTAL: �550.00(24hrs)=$1,077.33 USD
UPS

Mailing: �100.00
Insurance: �250.00
Vat: �150.00
TOTAL: �500.00(2days)=$979.00 USD

FEDEX

Mailing: �150.00
Insurance: �200.00
Vat: �100.00
TOTAL: �450.00(3days)=$881.00 USD

Note:The charges cannot be Deducted from your winnings, and also the charges are to be handled by you.This is in accordance with section 13(1)(n) of the National Gambling Act as adopted in 1993 and amended on 3RD July 1996 by the constitutional assembly.This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds and win Situaitions.

Please respond to this email by making a selection from the three options above. Also attach a scanned copy of either your driver’s licence, international passport (photo page) or any other legally identifying document.

Send your response to indicate your option within the next 24hrs,because you only have 14 working days to claim this cheque and after this period, your cash prize will be deemed to have been forfeited by you and will be reused in the drawings of the next edition of the lottery.

Once again, Congratulations

Your urgent reply will be most welcome

Treat with dispatch,
Mr. Sweet Smith
Tel:+44-703-190-9145
Registered in England No 929027.
Registered Office: Link Place, BRIGHTON,
Sussex, BN1 7DX,ENGLAND,
Regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
� 2007 ScarLet Courier LTD.

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I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT IM SO HAPPY I WON THE LOTTERY.
BUT WHAT I DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS A BIG FAKE. HOW CAN PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH THIS. AT LEAST I DIDNT SEND IT IN WITH ALL MY INFO WHO KNOWS THEY MIGHT OF TOOK ALL MY MONEY FROM MY BANK. THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING SOMEBODY CAN DO TO STOP THIS PERSON FROM SENDING OUT THESE PHONEY LOTTERY PAPERS. ALL I KNOW IOS I HOPE NOBODY SENDS IT IN.
BEWARE ALL???

Dear all,

I regrettably only won 815,960 Euros!!! I was advised that I won the 3rd caterory lottery, but hope to do better next year!

I am obviously sarcastic here, but curious enough to google the various stated companies and names listed on this. I noticed that the format of the hasn’t changed in the past few years. Referring to the letter received yesterday, I understand that underlined text only seems to change to offer ”winners” a variance of their scam…

My agent is ”Dr Paul Mario”. I found it a bit odd that a doctor handles lottery claims rather than spending time in a hospital saving lives and helping people get better!

On the good side, I find this site that actually informs people of such scams, provide advise and refersto other sites for information purposes. This obviously takes time and money (ironic isn’t it!), but it is great to find that there are still people that do care for others.

There are ways to make the scammers lives a bit more difficult as suggested on othe rsimilar sites; if you have received such communication via e-mail, take a digital picture of false information and send it back to the originator. Large size files will quickly fill their sites and it will most definately slow them down, if not crash their system. For this, you should first set-up a disposable mailing address. The amount of responses will likely be overwhelming and you should avoid using your personal e-mail address.

Thank you for your efforts Nikke! I will be broadcasting such ”419 scam” with friends and family, after I tell them all I am now a millionnaire! (or getting closer).

Cheers

Stephane

I think the best thing to do with these letters is to send them onto the Spanish Lottery Legal Advice Service, i have checked there website and they request any of these scam letters to be sent onto them at:

If you receive fraudulent El Gordo material you can help the investigations of Loterías y Apuestas de Estado by sending a copy to the following address:

Loterías y Apuestas del Estado
Legal Advice Service
C/ Guzmán el Bueno nº 137
28003 Madrid
Spain

Damn them all….you know its a scam but if like me you are financially embarassed…all the time!!…you have that little glimmer of hope in the back of your head. I knew in my heart of hearts that it was a scam but still, at a glance it looks professional, closer inspection does however show as others have pointed out that it is not official paper, it is not embossed and has just been printed off a computer as opposed to a professional printing press. Please people do not send off your personal details or copies of your passports as identity theft is becoming a big thing, who knows, you could be arrested the next time you are at the airport for gun running or drug dealing.

I hav got this letter just 1 day ago and almost believ this stuppid scam.
I very greatfull for this site and call guys who knows website design to create
the same colored and ambisioused page in internet wich going to be crush this
f…. abusing joke !!!!

I to received an award notification from International Lottery Commission Loteria Primitiva telling me I had been approved a lump sum payments of 615,810 euros. I had to contact Don. Pedro Perez the foreign service manager of Estrella Seguros S.A. for the processing and remittance of my winning money and I owed 10% of my winnings as part of their commission for acting on my behalf. The letter is signed Mrs Antonio Garce Peral, needless to say the quality of a letter that had been copied numerous times and asking for bank details made me a bit uneasy so I checked it out and I’m glad I did. What about the people out there with no access to a computer and are hard up for cash and think to spend a little to receive a lot is not a bad gamble! Its a scam don’t do it return it to the address listed above and hopefully someone will put a stop to this before these dishonest people make more money out of hard working people like ourselves.

I’ve just came from the phone where I spoke to Dr Carlos Malolo, he told me I had won 615,810.00 euro. People have to know i’ts a scam when they open the letter. I kept the very helpful Dr C on the line for 30 minutes so at least he wasen’t able to scam anyone for that time. How about we all ring him and keep him on the line as long as possible. I will ring him again over the next few days using differant names and reference numbers. It was the best fun today scaming Dr C. I gave wrong name, reference and batch numbers so he doesen’t know who he’s dealing with. Have fun with this a–hole and waste his time.

Excellent idea Gerry. I think that is what the Spamalot project (not the musical) does.
http://www.lindqvist.com/en/robot-taking-on-spammers
They keep the scammers busy by sending automated mails to them asking about this and that. How they must hate it.

hola mi nombre es corisandra yo vivo en los estados unidos y resibi la misma carta de la que ablan
diciendo que abia ganado un premio de $766 3.52 million of dollars que me comunicara con MRalonzo carlos manager perpetual security & financial compania al tel 01134-680-902-058 fax 01134-911-877-119
se le pide alas autoridades que coresponda inbestigar este fraude

I represent a political prisoner in the USA, and he received a letter with notification, but he has no passport, bank, or ID other than state prison.
he wanted me to check into this; I don’t have a bank account and don’t want one.
Holla back anyone

HI This morning I received a letter from El Gordo la Primitiva bla bla bla!!!!! I thought it was real as i had been to spain and participated in a lottery but that was more than 5 years ago. Whilst looking at the letter and form i got suspicious as the stamp on it left no mark on the back of the letter (as real ones do!!!!!) Apart from that the logos, etc on the letter looked as if they were copied from somewhere and pasted on it but i phoned them just the same as 615,810 Euros seemed so good to me at the moment!!! The guy on the phone said i should send them the form with my bank account details a.s.a.p.

I’m so thankful for this website! When i read the letter on the website it was almost identical to mine. only the dates, names and money amounts were different. The winning numbers on my letter were exactly the same as the winning numbers on your letter !!! -14-26-27-40-42-48!!!!!! and that was dated 2004. (And i noticed that they recycle the same names over and over again. My agent was Luis Miguel and it was signed by Antonio Fernandez. whilst reading other people’s postings on this site i saw the same names but with different surnames or vice versa) Now i’m going to the spanish embassy here in Malta and see what can be done about this as it’s not fair to get people’s hopes up, rob them of their hard earned money and leave them with crushed dreams and no money!!!

Thanks again for the web site.:)

Agradezco al creador de esta pagina, ya que aunque sea podemos desahogarnos de aquellos que se aprovechan de los otros para enganhar y mas…Soy supuestamente otro ganador, en mi caso no fueron euros sino dolares, y empiezan los suenhos a surgir y que va, afortunadamente en mi pais algo que tenemos es malicia indigena y pues se han aprovechado tanto de nosotros que creo uno aprende. Espero que algun dia, un tal senhor Alex Johnson y un tal David Frank si esos son sus nombres sean aprendidos por todo este fraude, lastima que ya sea el 149, y me imagino que habran mas victimas de estos ”senhores”. Consejo, asi como nos enganharon busquemos la o las maneras de saber, de conocer si lo que nos esta llegando por el correo es cierto? o no.

Hello and thank you.
I have just recieved a letter addressed to my son, who is working in Greece, SAo I rang him and he told me to open it on his behalf It was telling him he had won 615,810.00 euro’s. with the next paragraph saying that I ahould be informed that 10% of his winnings belong to Bilbao Seguros S.L as they brought the ticket in his name?? Who are Bilbao Seguros, and why would they enter my son into a lottery in Spain without him knowing??? More to the point, where did they get his name and address from in the Uk?? thats what I find creepy.

Like some of you, I telephoned Alex Gomez, who is the Foreign Operations Manger for La Prmitiva on 00 34 695 403 999, and told them that my son had just finnished education and was a broke student on his first job and would be over the moon, to learn that he had won so much money. I said he had huge debts but would be thrilled to pay them back, and I would make sure he did as instructed. You know what, as he is working abroad and obviously has no money, they told me to phone them back in 10 minutes…. meanwhile, I have found this site, and I think I am going to e-mail watchdog, and scan the letter in, and let them know about thisto warn all those other people that have obviously been taken in… my son and I nearly were… Its dangerous, its obviously illegal and why is it still running?? Lets see if we can get them exsposed for what they are and put behind bars!!

i believe in this and i need a money (god came my dream told to take a lottrey)

tell me in simple way i win a lottery or not. please

Hey guys.Thanks for all the info.I too recieved the info and the letter stating ive won money in euros. Thanks to all to serve to inform us of the corruption out there.Long live justice.Ronz South Africa

i received two identical letters ,one to a previous residence and one to my current
address, if it was,nt so serious it would be laughable! luckily i saw through it straight away, but sadly there are people out there who will be taken in hook line and sinker,if only there was a way of informing more people about this because not everybody is computer literate and they don,t have any ways of checking the scam out!
merv

i got a smiliar letter from someone called PABLO NACH from spain, telling me i have won 615,810 euros. Ive faved the details back but now they want 695 euros for courier costs by western union money transfers. what shall i do? i really need the money and really need advise

THANKS GUYS…… NEARLY SCAMMED ME TO. GLAD YOU ARE ON THE WEB TO STOP THESE P…….KS FROM SCAMMING DECENT HARD WORKING PEOPLE……

just received a letter via the post sayn i had won over 700000 euro…gr8 i thought where s the bin…

its a scam..the person who signed it at the end evn claimed to be A NUN FOR CHRISTS SAKE!!!!
bin the crap and get to work!

This is the kinda letter I got! Thank goodness for this website. Thank you guys!
Watch out!

LOTERIA NACIONAL AWARD 2007
Paseo De La castellana 28, 3A
28809 Madrid Spain.

Reference Numbers: ES/007/05/12/MAD.
Batch Numbers: SP-9059-2007.
YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WON THE LOTERIA.
We are pleased to inform you of the result on Friday 8th June, 2007 of the Loteria Nacional promotions program.
Drew lucky numbers 4-21-23-26-43-44 which consequently won in the 2nd category, You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of One Million euro Only (€1,000,000.00).

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims has been processed and your money remitted to your account.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 50,000.00 companies and 20,000,000.00 individuals email addresses and names from all over the world.
We hope with part of your winning, you will take part in our next year Thirty Million Euros lnternational lottery.

To file for your claim, Please contact Loteria claims Department Madrid.
Contact Person: Sanchez Eduardo.
C/SAN Fernando 41, Planta 4c
28807 Madrid, Spain.
PHONE: +34 652 677 942
FACSIMILE: +34 917 615 191
E-MAIL:agent_sanchezeduardo03@yahoo.es
For due processing and remittance of your prize money to designated account of your choice.
Remember to quote your winning numbers and your direct telephone and fax numbers when responding to these email.

Yours Sincerely,
Wilfred Enrique
Lottery Director.

Nikke,

Not many people take the time to do good things for others. All of us listed on this page (and I am sure there are MANY others who have not commented) owe you gratitude for taking your precious time to keep tabs on what is going on with this scam. You are a great example to us. You are making a difference. God Bless you immeasurably.

im wondering when did i enter this lotto

i mean im only 13

im not a gambler!

Thank you very much for this site! I also recieved a letter very similar to the one described and am very thankful that I found your site.
Shani, Australia.

Firstly, thanks all for sharing your comments & thanks for this site. I have had numerous bogus lottery winning notifications over the years, but hats off to these boys, this one almost had me.
I’d already spent over £300,000 just on the way from the kitchen to the pc to check out La Primitiva……oh well, never mind.

I have received several winnings in same scam if they are only true I am a multi millionaire by now doing nothing just having a simple email address which they acquired from limbo. the 1st one though I knew it was a hoax or scam yet for curiuosity I communicated with them. 1st they say my fund is ready for deposited in a bank in Greece, then I said I change my mind I rather have it in check, then there was an immediate response that my check is ready for delivery asked my name and my address. Until the time that they were asking me to deposit €847 via Western Union for delivery and insurance.
As always I do believed ”if it is too good to be true it is surely a scam”. Just watch for their email add from yahoo, hotmail etc. they couldn’t even have a decent website because they are afraid to be traced. when we are talking money the usual is to scrutinize. Although I symphatized with the feelings of those who are devastated of these scams please I tell you evils are wondering the world for the ruins of souls. So the best thing is to believe in HIM and pray always. Their usual targets are people who are desperate and in needs and it so happens that you are usually the one who were sent scams like these. Please don’t ever put your hard earned money for it. These people are the living devils and who knows maybe he or she is just the person next to you. Amen.

it’s all a scam if you don’t buy a ticket how can you get on the train?
thanks for this site dude’s…

I Have recieved a letter in the post WORTH £0 Sorry 615,810 euros . Just one question how can we return the so called favour ? Thanks Colin

I’ve just Googled ”Dr Riko David” and found this site, as I also recieved a letter the other day to my home address (which is really annoying that these low life scum bags have my personal details) but I read it with some amusement and didn’t believe (though I told my wife we were rich and she believed it for about 5 seconds!). You don’t get something for nothing in this life! Please don’t believe it for a minute, don’t waste your money, time or breath on this rubbish. I read the name Riko David and thought, a Spanish lottery syndicate, the name doesn’t quite go! I imagine a fat Nigerian in Lagos sitting there watching all this money role in from gullible people, they prey on people’s good nature and sincerity!

Thank you all for your comments I got scammed today I am in Ireland and was in Barcelona a few weeks ago so I thought just maybe lol .. and thank god for the Internet and that I have the means to check it out or who knows what may have happened these criminals should be behind bars for life lets hope they get what they deserve grrr!!!!

Hi, my husband received a letter posted in sevilla, Spain telleing him that he had won El Primitivo!
Its a very professional looking letter so I’m quite impressed of the fraud, but like a lot of other people writing comments here, I am a little puzled about how they got hold of his home address!

Yipeee! I’ve won!!

Wait… why is this printed on cheap paper and with a cheat printer as well? Oh wait, there is a watermark in the paper… No… its just a printed watermark.

Nuts! And here I was thinking that I could take a couple of days off…

Hello all, I just received my winning letter (snail mail and all) from Spain yesterday. It got me going for a few moments before I started to notice the small discrepancies.

I’ll hand it to the scammers though, with just a little more work, they might actually succeed. At first glance this seems real enough, and if they would use a really good printer on really good paper, it would probably be a very successful scam.

I am actually impressed. Disgusted and a bit shaken over the address details, but impressed.

I got this email today. At first it seemed interesting, but of course it was a scam. How on earth can people win 5 million euro’s from a lottery they don’t even know…?

EL-GORDO LOTTERY DE LA PRIMITIVA
C/ ZAMORA 1A 28924
MADRID ESPAÑA.
DATE: JULY 3RD, 2007.
BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222
REFERENCE:89/00/PPF

AWARD NOTIFICATION.

This is to inform you on the release of the EL-GORDO LOTTERY DE LA PRIMITIVA held on the 29TH OF JUNE 2007 . The result was released on the 30TH OF JUNE 2007.This is the most popular draw on the Spanish lottery calendar. It is held every Year and is affectionately the biggest ,Your E-mail address won you 5 million euros with winning ticket details,TICKET NUMBER : 009-778-07ES , BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222 and REFERENCE:89/00/PPF .
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies and we utilise state of the art Electronic Data Processing (EDP) to ensure accuracy of all transactions, ticket purchases and win payments.
You are to contact your claims agent Mr John Roi and he shall guide you perfectly in claiming your prize and You shall receive the full amount of the prize money you won.

CONTACT OF YOUR CLAIMS AGENT BELOW:
DR JOHN ROI
allianzseg@aim.com
TEL: +34-630-763-355
ALLIANZ SEGUROS

When contacting Mr John Roi kindly present your information of identity for documentation in your winning file and for recognition of whom to claim award, either your country passport or any other valid identity is required. along with your BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222 and REFERENCE:89/00/PPF as stated below .
Remember, all winnings must be processed not later than one month from the day you receive this notification. you are to quote your reference and batch numbers BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222 and REFERENCE:89/00/PPF in every of your response to your claim agent. Further more, should there be any change of address, inform your claim agent as soon as possible while a copy of your lucky winning ticket and all other information will be sent to you by your claim agent when your award has been processed and ready for transfer , Your claims agent is DR John Roi. YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR SECURITY COMPANY WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
BATCH AND REFERENCE NUMBER:
WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS:
YOUR NAME:
YOUR ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
FAX NUMBER:
COUNTRY:
A SCAN COPY OF IDENTITY :
Once again from all members of our staff CONGRATULATIONS for being a part of our International promotions program. NOTE:winners below eighteen years ( -18yrs ) are disqualified from this program.
All the testimonials used in our advertising are genuine and we only publish comments and photographs with the express written permission of the winners.

We wish you good fortunes.
Sincerely,
MRS EVA RAMONI .

this spanish el gordo rubbish has even entered malta a letter being posted to my mother with the same contents.

hey people i just got a letter today, i mean how much would u all like to have that money the selfish f****rs ha, we should all go down and demand our money that we supposedly won i mean they are sayin we can go down there and pay wink wink 😉

hi i also got one of these letters today.i,m not surprised i hadn,t won as i had,nt entered any draw.they say they,re the sole representative of the CATALANA OCCIDENTE GROUP who have their own website.i wonder if they know of this.anyway just collected 25 euros from irish lottery.im happy
TONY.

Hiya, I recieved a letter today exactly the same as at the top of this page I couldn’t believe it, I thought wey hey come to momma!! but then of course you start thinking about it and I thought I havn’t even played this lottery I can’t even win a tenner on our lottery so what’s going on. I showed my husband and he said have look on the net and see if you can find anything out and yes I bloody did!
Thankyou for putting my suspicions at rest.
Regards Pam

My husband just received one of these letters with claim form attached. We just couldn’t figure where the scam was as they didn’t ask for money and gave the option of being paid by cheque so that it was not necessary to give bank details. I understand now having read some of the letters that they would subsequently demand money. I hope people are not caught out like this.I intend to send a copy of my letter to a local radio station and ask them to read it out on air and warn people.

I am Polish living in London since 2005 , having wife and four children in Poland so once I have received the letter from Loterias I thought that I will be able to go back to Poland.But fortunately I have checked your website in the internet-Thank YOU ! Their names Dr David Alberto- ” manager” tel 0034695847109- Bilbao Seguros S.L. – Jose Miguel Rodriguez-”Promotions Manager”- Loteria Primitiva-tel. 0034646352204.Tomasz Zietkiewicz.

hi there ppl i just received the same letter on 14 of june, i rang them back don antonio martinez and he was asking to send $2850 australian dollars, i asked them to take the money from the winning prize and he said they couldnt what a scam people, is anyone tried to report them what are they doing couse someone will get burned.

these ppl haave no life i swear ive gotten ths letter so many times

my father recived this letter and i told him to chekc it out on the internet and wee fiound out it was a hugee hugee scam i went and reported it to the police and they are foloowing it up AND I HOPE THEY CATCH this loser!!!

ansd give lall the money back to who it belongs TOO!

I DIDNT GET SUCKED innnnn

Dear Sir or Madam:

I am in receipt of a letter dated 9th June 2007 stating I have won a lot of money.Today my wife received a phone call from DON PEDRO PEREZ asking her to forward £921.00 in return for her ”winning” of 615810.00 Euro Can you tell me if I really won or if it is a scam of some sort?

Please let me know about this matter as soon as you are able.

Thank you for your attention to the above.

Sincerely,
Noel (Northern Ireland)

I received 2 letters, one for 5 000 000euros, same as Joost received, but 7 days before him, and second for 550 000! And ‘claims agents’ wanted to pay them 500euros! First wanted to pay in bank, second on his name, he gave his adress!

Hello,
I received a letter stating I won $815,920 in lottery. It is from spain,Madrid. The agent’s name is Paula Pedro. She had said for me to wired money $1690. So the bank can release my winning check. Is this a scam. Please reply as soon as possible. thanks

This site Is very helpful..I received The same email 2days ago & I’m glad I found this site WWW is really Awesome,U can search everything 😉

I have received a letter today 12/7/07 from LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL to say i have won 615.810.00 euros. The letter does look like the real thing with the watermark and the barcode. It says i must reply by 31/7/07 to claim my prize. I am so pleased i looked on the internet first i was looking to see if i could find anything about the company and came across your website. I am pleased there is someone out there who has a site with the information you have about the scams. I would like to thank you for your website which has likely saved me time and money.

Great site. I too nearly taken in with official looking winning notification letter and claim form. However you have to be in it to win it,,,, and I had never had a flutter on this lottery. So looked closer at print quality, then decided to check on the web for details of lottery and security company, and found your site instead.
Thank you so much for the time and effort to main a site to help folks like me.

I CANT BELIVE THIS MY MOTHER JUST TWO THOUSAND SOME ODD DOLLARS TO RECEIVE THE MONEY THEY SAID THEY NEEDED IT TO SEND THE MONEY TO HER. I CANT BELIVE THIS I KNEW I SHOULD HAVETRUSTED MY INSTINCT TO CHECK THIS OUT BEFORE I LET HER SEND THEM MONEY… THAT WE DONT EVEN HAVE.
-THANKS ANYWAY:(

Yes, I got one this morning too. posted in Malaga on 16th July, with real stamp.
Googled it and found out lots of info. the number you have to call for more information is a mobile number (all mobile numbers in Spain begin with 6 (00-34-6…….) so it costs lots. Letterhead has been taken from a website. a big scam… hope no one falls for it and parts with money or their identity. Never send a copy of your passport to anyone!!!!

yeah I revieved a letter as well. I live in Ireland was suspicious about it but thanks for the site!
Ifs its to good to be true it probarbly is!!!!!!!!!

19th-July, iv received the letter today,same with all the others, print by low ink on cheap paper,and even not straight! it shakes me for minutes. just wondering how they get the name and address?they think that no one knows how to use Internet? ???

I live in Mauritius and I have received a similar letter from La Primitiva this morning; so I checked for the authenticity on the internet and came across your website; I must thank you for the initiative. Unfortunately only very few people can access internet in this world; I wonder if there could be other means to help prevent such frauds.

Regards
Baree

I’ve recieved a letter today same as detailed above from ”La Primitiva” contact Person was DON ROMAN PEREZ. Glad I’ve checked this Web, but I had a fair idea it was a scam. Any Idea on how to report it?

Im a turk. I received a e-mail..
EL-GORDO LOTTERY DE LA PRIMITIVA
C/ ZAMORA 1A 28924
MADRID ESPAÑA.
DATE: JULY 17, 2007.
BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222
REFERENCE:89/00/PPF

AWARD NOTIFICATION.

This is to inform you on the release of the EL-GORDO LOTTERY DE LA PRIMITIVA held on the 12TH OF JULY 2007 . The result was released on the 13TH OF JULY 2007.This is the most popular draw on the Spanish lottery calendar. It is held every Year and is affectionately the biggest ,Your E-mail address won you 5 million euros with winning ticket details,TICKET NUMBER : 009-778-07ES , BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222 and REFERENCE:89/00/PPF .
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies and we utilise state of the art Electronic Data Processing (EDP) to ensure accuracy of all transactions, ticket purchases and win payments.
You are to contact your claims agent Mr John Roi and he shall guide you perfectly in claiming your prize and You shall receive the full amount of the prize money you won.

CONTACT OF YOUR CLAIMS AGENT BELOW:
DR JOHN ROI
allianzseg@aim.com

TEL: +34-630-763-355
ALLIANZ SEGUROS

When contacting Mr John Roi kindly present your information of identity for documentation in your winning file and for recognition of whom to claim award, either your country passport or any other valid identity is required. along with your BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222 and REFERENCE:89/00/PPF as stated below .
Remember, all winnings must be processed not later than one month from the day you receive this notification. you are to quote your reference and batch numbers BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222 and REFERENCE:89/00/PPF in every of your response to your claim agent. Further more, should there be any change of address, inform your claim agent as soon as possible while a copy of your lucky winning ticket and all other information will be sent to you by your claim agent when your award has been processed and ready for transfer , Your claims agent is DR John Roi. YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR SECURITY COMPANY WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
BATCH AND REFERENCE NUMBER:
WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS:
YOUR NAME:
YOUR ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
FAX NUMBER:
COUNTRY:
A SCAN COPY OF IDENTITY :
Once again from all members of our staff CONGRATULATIONS for being a part of our International promotions program. NOTE:winners below eighteen years ( -18yrs ) are disqualified from this program.
All the testimonials used in our advertising are genuine and we only publish comments and photographs with the express written permission of the winners.

We wish you good fortunes.
Sincerely,
MRS EVA RAMONI .

i’ve received a letter from LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME today! got very excited of the amount i had won : 733,778.85 £ !!!! it says that i have 2 fill out a form ( which i received with the letter) and attach a copy of my passport. I thought: what is the chance for me winning a lottery i never heard of or paid a cent for? hmm….. IT’S ALL A SCAM AND DONT U REPLY THEM!!!!!

Just received a letter notifying me that I have won €615,810 from LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME, without even having to buy a lottery ticket. There is a God.

I have received the same lottery letter giving me hope for 615,800 euros which i earned without even entering the lottery. It is supprising though i won lamp sum of money and still they are demanding some 1,250 euros for the transfer of money. So please be careful.

Hi guys. Just got a letter telling me I won 615,810 euros. All my prayers answered? yeh right. Too good to be true. You dont get anything for nothing in this world. Thanks to your website I have been saved from making a big mistake.

This has also hit the shores of South Africa. My mum received a letter that that concurs with the above people. Furtunately I checked the web to find the background on the company. Thanks guys !!!

damn! can we do something as ravenge ? ;D they send that letter for my. im not not on any list or some other stuff.. they know my name and surname. thats very strange. even insecure.

Hi,

Received the same crap. Different names.
Oh my god, its too good to be true, but keeps one dreaming…

I googled and found this site:
Hopefully this site helps to prevent a lot of people from spending money for noting.

EL-GORDO LOTTERY DE LA PRIMITIVA
C/ ZAMORA 1A 28924
MADRID ESPAÑA.
DATE: JULY 25, 2007.
BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222
REFERENCE:89/00/PPF

AWARD NOTIFICATION.

This is to inform you on the release of the EL-GORDO LOTTERY DE LA PRIMITIVA held on the 12TH OF JULY 2007 . The result was released on the 13TH OF JULY 2007.This is the most popular draw on the Spanish lottery calendar. It is held every Year and is affectionately the biggest ,Your E-mail address won you 5 million euros with winning ticket details,TICKET NUMBER : 009-778-07ES , BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222 and REFERENCE:89/00/PPF .
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies and we utilise state of the art Electronic Data Processing (EDP) to ensure accuracy of all transactions, ticket purchases and win payments.
You are to contact your claims agent Mr John Roi and he shall guide you perfectly in claiming your prize and You shall receive the full amount of the prize money you won.

CONTACT OF YOUR CLAIMS AGENT BELOW:
DR JOHN ROI
allianzseg2007@aim.com

TEL: +34-630-763-355
ALLIANZ SEGUROS

When contacting Mr John Roi kindly present your information of identity for documentation in your winning file and for recognition of whom to claim award, either your country passport or any other valid identity is required. along with your BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222 and REFERENCE:89/00/PPF as stated below .
Remember, all winnings must be processed not later than one month from the day you receive this notification. you are to quote your reference and batch numbers BATCH: EGGS-011-060-222 and REFERENCE:89/00/PPF in every of your response to your claim agent. Further more, should there be any change of address, inform your claim agent as soon as possible while a copy of your lucky winning ticket and all other information will be sent to you by your claim agent when your award has been processed and ready for transfer , Your claims agent is DR John Roi. YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR SECURITY COMPANY WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
BATCH AND REFERENCE NUMBER:
WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS:
YOUR NAME:
YOUR ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
FAX NUMBER:
COUNTRY:
A SCAN COPY OF IDENTITY :
Once again from all members of our staff CONGRATULATIONS for being a part of our International promotions program. NOTE:winners below eighteen years ( -18yrs ) are disqualified from this program.
All the testimonials used in our advertising are genuine and we only publish comments and photographs with the express written permission of the winners.

We wish you good fortunes.
Sincerely,
MRS EVA RAMONI .

I am from Norway.I have received a letter today 27.07.07 from LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL to say i have won 615.810.00 euros. The letter does look like the real thing with the watermark and the barcode.I must reply by 03.08.07 to claim my prize.The contakt person is DON MARTIN CARO-manager BILBAO SEGUROS S.L. On Tel 0034 911 011 361 and Fax 0034 911 011 362……… I am looked on the internet and came your website.THANKS FOR THE WEBSITE!!!!!!Frends be careful…..
P.S.Copy of the letter i can scan & e-mail it to you.

Well I’m another sucker…almost!!! Same letter as everyone else, a lovely win of 615,810. I was daft enough to phone although I always felt in the back of my mind…nah! Can’t be true, but you got to check it out. Low and behold Don Martin Sanchez is calling me back on Monday to verify things and arrange the transfer of the money..i wonder how much he’s going to charge me for the transfer fee!! Nice while it lasted, I was buying the family home I need, a mini cooper and a motor bike for him in doors! Beware… and thanks for the input!

I also received a letter from LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL saying that I have won over £733,778.85! However, upon checking their name, came upon this site – which only proves it is a scam!!!! Thought it was too good to be true. So glad to find this website. Thank you.

I am writting from Turkiye. I’m so glad because of finding this web-site. On july 28, i have received a similar stupid mail like others. At first i have surprised, because i have never seen before such a good prepeared scam mail like this. I did not believe it but in my mind there was a question ”can it be true? ”… :0) …. A few minutes ago i read some other victims like me above. And i realized that this is a very bad joke. All this amount of people can not win the same or similar lotteries. The letter says that ”you won 5 million euro”… 🙂 Not 5000, not 50.000, not 500.000… it is 5.000.000 euro… it is very absurd and stupid… How can it be real? No, no they are bad guys who prepeared these mails….. They must be punished as soon as possible. I want to thank this site and all other writers above, because of informing us….. I love you my friends and i send all you my best regards from Turkey. 🙂

Just got one as well! A very clever scam. Although you know deep down that it’s fake, a little bit of you wants to believe it. A great website and easy to find.
Thanks, Nikke.
PS – As someone else commented, identify theft is a real possibility, especially if you give them your bank details.

Hi All

Thanks for the tip off. My wife rang me with the information but we had our doubts.
I googled the name of the lotto and found this site.
Nice money but we have our health thank god.

Regards
Vince

I also have received (letters) on August 03/2007 at my addresses informing me that I have won 615.810.00 Euros. from LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM .They asked me to claim my price before 30th of August.
Do you think that ihave to rush???
Kindly accept my many thanks for your website which inform us about these
crooks.

I also have received (letters) on August 03/2007 at my addresses informing me that I have won 615.810.00 Euros. from LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM .They asked me to claim my price before 30th of August.
Do you think that ihave to rush???
Kindly accept my many thanks for your website

hola me llamo luis , mi mama tambien resibio una carta con una noticia demasiado buena buena para ser verdad, era supuesta mente de LA PRIMITIVA LOTERIA de espana hahaha
que abia ganado una muy buena cantidad de EUROS que contactara a un supuesto agente, que les diera mi # de cuenta I otra imformacion para procesar mi pago. estos cabrones si que tienen imaginasion pero tomare cartas en el asunto I vere a donde tengo que acudir con esta carta para denunciar a esa vola de estafadores hijos de su mamasita, tal vez el FBI voy a imformarme pero espero que todos ustedes tambien tomen cartas en esto y tratar de llevar estas personas a donde se meresen la CARCEL gracias.

hi!i also recieved the same letter saying that i just won 615,810.00 euros.That i had to claim my prize before the 24th of august 2007!i’ve sent them my ID by fax.with all informations on my bank account.do i have to fear something?anyway thanks!i was about tomake the money transfer on internet!the contact name is David Carlos,phone number:0034654182577;fax:0034911010799!the bank worker Maria Perez!i would like to hear about someone who sent the money,did they get a reply?anyway that’s real disgusting!i almost quit my job!
Please be on the alert!

Nikke,
Excellent web-site, I received an almost identical letter in the mail today to inform me that I’d won 615,810 Euros.
Do you have information about where this originates from i.e. Nigerian 419 etc.
I’m a security consultant working internationaly and would just like more info on this so I can post it on my company newsletter and alert my clients to this.
Thank you,
Dermot Cosgrove
Ireland

these a**holes seem to have gotten our details from holiday booking

what a fab web-site, i received the same letter today informing me that I had won also 615,810 Euros. Dermot for your info this originates from malaga in spain the full address is loterias y apuestas del estado, apartado de correos 120,29001 malaga spain. regards vasco

Nikke
Thank for this website. I was another beneficiary of this fake lotteria Primitiva. I’d won 800,809 euros.

Jorge
Canada

I also got a letter today saying I had been approved for a lump sum payouy of € 815,510,00 in cash. I felt that something was funny about the letter and luckely I found this site. Winning money would be fantastic but I prefere to win less money and in a honest way.

One must always be carefull now a days!

Suzanne from Italy

i too recieved a similar letter stating i won 475600 euros. my claims agent is dr. raul fernandez , his id being raul.zurich@madrid.com. tel nos..34-658-654-914.
the programme director is snr antonio rodriguez.
my family was so happy to recieve this..thought our bad times are gone.
but it is so sad to know this is a scam.
THANKS FOR THIS WEBSITE.

my dad just won the lottery i sent off the fax for him but we did make sure not to send any bank details we’re a bit worried now though about identity theft

Thank you for your website. I received one of these scam letters today from LA PRIMITIVA and it sounded sooo credible, scary!! Now I know the difference between truth and scam! Thank you.

hi everybody
i have just received an e-mail with the same wording but with 5,000,000 euro prize and i have contacted panish embassy in egypt as threr is no spanish embassy in my country, sudan.also they asked me to pay euor6,00 as trnsfer fees and i told them that i need somthing official from my bank in uk.
the guy who is responding is dr john roi.
thank you so much for informations shown in your website but till now i am trying to convice myself that it just scam!! but still i am very worried that they got my bank account details .any one to advice ,pls
rgds and all the best
hashim.nimir@gmail.com

Hello. I was in doubts from the first minute,. i also found on internet that so called my foregine service agent doesn’t exsist. But what bothers me is how do they get our names and addresses.
Anyway, thank you all for a warning and i hope that police or anyone gets those prankers.
Byebye

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article rdo de la Primitiva Lottery International Promotions Programmes, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

DEAR ALL,
ANY TO TRACE THOSE CRIMINALS AS THE GIVE PHONE AND FAX NO.
I HAVE CONTACTED AGAIN SPANISH EMBASSY TO TRACE THEM BUT TILL NOW NO RESPONSE.
PLS ADVICE
HASHIM

For those of you that receive letters sent from Spain. Please send a copy of the letter and envelope to the Spanish police in Malaga:

Comandancia de la Guardia Civil
Av Arroyo de los Angeles 44
CP 29009
Malaga
( COS )

or Fax: 0034952071555 Atencion COS , with a contact number.

They already catch two Nigerian citizens related to this case in June 2004.

Thanks for your help

dear friends,
i got the same letter from primitivo yesterday, i never played lotto in my life- we were all very happy in the first minitues-after ten minutes i started checking ”this gods gift” seriously and went to my lawier and my banker- they startet loughing and told me, to put this papers in the waste. what i did quickly. i was a millionary in mind for 10 minitues;—-)

thx for tis platform!
nice greets from Vienna

I just recive the same letter, and i never bought any lottery ticket, and for sure there next step, u need to pay us to claim you money which is am not going to do, and the funny thing I won one by e-mail and the second one they sent it by mail with diffrent batch and ref #…..

I will try to get as much detail as i can of those people…..hope no one fall for them…

I am really happy to see this information in the internet. Just now i received this kind of letter through mail. I verified in this interent and found that it is scam. I am throughing this letter in dust bin.
thanks for your help on contributing this internet/

Dear all
i got this letter 2day, came online 2 check it out, jus wana say tnx 4 all the info, this time they used this company SEGUROS BILBAO.

heres the link 2 the letter i got, it matchs the 1 they sent me!!! lol
http://www.idealspain.com/LotteryScamLetters/scam8.pdf

this is fake………really i thiink so……..i just recieved the same letter……no reply …………bakwwass………..i hate themmm…….

Received a letter a couple of days ago saying that I had won 985,950 euro on the Spanish lottery, checked the website and there was no draw on the date indicated and the numbers were not referenced.
Saw your web-site and checked this out, what a scam, just as I thought it would be. Anyone who receives a letter or e-mail like this should throw it straight in the bin where it belongs.

Dear Nikkes, I receved a letter mansaning that i won 615,810 EUROS on the lottery held 30th June 2007 LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME and asking me to send all the details and bank account no wich i send to person call CRUZ MARTINS FORING OPERATION MANAGER BILBAO SEGUROS S.L TELEP NO 0034692573132 FAX NO 0034 911814187. they infiromed me to send £950 as bank chargers through WESTEN UNION MONEY TRANCER the name given for the trancer NAME CHARLEYS BROWN and they conform they received money and posted forged bank of BANCO SANTANDER maney trancer note and told me money will be my account 7 days. but still its not. what can i do how can i get back my money back please help me

So I just got off of the phone with my ”claiming agent/foreign operations manager”, Don Pedro Antonio of the all-too-generous La Primativa Lottery International. Current east coast time being 9:14pm. I recieved my letter early this morning and, to be quite honest, I was sanguine. You see I’ve recieved emails from these bullshit artists before, but never have I gone to the mailbox to find an envelope of certified mail from Madrid, Spain to my address stating I’ve won 615,810 euros.

I waited until tonight to make my long-distance phone call(being sure to include *67 as the prefix) for two reasons:

1) Checking timeanddate.com/worldclock/ I found that Madrid is 6 hours ahead of New York.

2) If some dumb douche-nozzle answers the phone at 3 in the morning, claiming to still be in the office catching up on other lucky lottery beneficiaries, all doubts would be confirmed.

…this is exactly what happened.

A freshly awakened elder man clears his throat and mutters the words, ”Estrella Seguros”. I couldn’t believe it. He ACTUALLY ANSWERED! My mind immediately began analyzing all possibilities of fraud. ”Did they not have an answering service…was this even a land line…did I really just call a fucking cell phone?”. I replied with a simple and inquisitive, ”Hello?”, implying that the ”professional” on the other side of the planet should take control of the conversation and direct my call accordingly. He replies, ”Hello?”. That was enough for me. Confirmation. However, I couldn’t end the call just yet. I had to see how far Don Pedro was going to take this. Already chuckling I asked him what time it was there. He pauses a moment and tells me it’s ten o’clock. ”In the morning?”, I ask…knowing damn well that it was 3 hours after midnight in all of Spain. ”No, in the night.”, he says. ”Oh wow, you guys are open late over there…what are your business hours?”. Can you guess what the poor bastard says? ”8 hours.”. Oookay. ”8 hours huh? So when do those 8 hours fall in your day? 2 to 10? 3 to 11?”. ”I’m sorry?”, the man replies. ”Nevermind”, I say. ”I believe I’ve won the lottery.”

He then asks me for my name(first and last), and my reference number. I oblige him with such information and ask him if anyone else was still at the office. He says, ”No…give me a moment to search the data base.”. I am not even kidding you when I write that what I heard was nothing more than a stumbling-about and rummaging through boxes of papers. ”Found it. You have won 615,810 euros. How do you want it?”.

Back to analyzing. My virgo mind can understand why a security company would not just mail a check for said amount to some random address without thorough confirmation. In the United States, when a citizen claims their lottery winnings(from a lottery they actually participated in), proofs of identity beyond bank account numbers and a photo copy of I.D. are required…for many reasons, mainly tax purposes. I understand this is another country we are dealing with here, but seriously…how desperate are we?

”How do you want it, transfer or check?”. ”You guys can just send me a check for 615,810 euros?”, I ask. ”Yes. There is a thousand dollar handlers fee for sending check.”, he says. Icing on the cake. ”Really, so is it free if I have the money transferred into my bank account?”. Senior Don Pedro then mumbles to me in his half-lucid state about the fees accrued in making sure I’m who I say I am. ”That will come to 580 euros.”, he says…without missing a beat. ”Can you take it out of the winnings.”, I ask. ”NO! We cannot take anything out of those monies.”, he declares. ”Okay. Is there anyone else I can speak to at your company…a supervisor perhaps?”. Don Pedro replies, ”There is no one else who can talk to you…I am the only one who can give you your monies. I am here to take care of you and there is no one else.”.

In closing…BINGO! There IS no one else. There is no promotion company. There is no money. These cheese-dick mother fuckers are scamming AT LEAST 1 out of every 200 people they come in contact with. It’s incredibly bold and undeniably arrogant of these cowards to assume they can take advantage of and gain profit from ANY of the eager who feel that half-a-million dollars will solve all of their problems.

If the hundreds of comments posted above haven’t assured you that all of it is a scam…please visit http://www.joewein.de/sw/419scam.htm

Yours truly,
Jonnas

These mongrels are now targeting elderly people my mother got one yesterday can we put a stop to these bastards.

Also thankyou for all your help atleast there is a site worth having on here.
Cheers Dale

I won $800K in the El Gordo La Lottery Primitiva S.A.. I am very busy but still spent a couple of hours figuring this stuff out and I called my fund releasing agent Luis Simon, Foreign Services Manager of Bilboa Security Company S.A. at 0034 648 772 049. He called me back with strict instructions not to give my winning reference number and batch number to anyone else. Then I searched the web and found this website thank God. At least I won’t spend any more time on this garbage.

just received a letter and claims form in post today . My contact is Mario Sanchez .

As others have stated if we had been lucky enough to win some money then they would have sent a cheque and wouldnt need bank details or other id !!!

I felt like faxing the claim form with a covering letter saying send my cheque but you aint getting my other id !! lol

I want to report another scam, August 2007.
Usual lottery scam by mail, from Valencia Spain.
Data:
Loteria Primitiva
Agent: GRUPO BILBAO SECURITY COMPANY S.L.
Bank: THE WORLD BANK FUND CONFIRMATION UNIT
Phones listed for ‘foreign service manager’ Louis Gomez:
+34 663 710 692
Fax: +34 912 919 688

Is there any possibility to trace these guys by the fax number? The fax should be a valid number as they are expecting contact details.

Tks for your webpage.

Euromilliones Lottery Primitiva
Plaza juan carlos c-145
28006 madrid spain I can not find the address in autoroute
letter posted at malaga

they took my address from the local phone book the no where else its written like this

Dr LUIS WILLIAM
tel: 0034 638 861 390 is working answers in african english

bye

They are still at it. This time La Primitiva Lottery International Promotions Programme from an address Loterias y Apuestos del Estado, Apartado de Correos 129, 28085, Madrid, Spain.
My contact is a Dr Cruz Martins of Bilbao Seguros SL.

So they must be successful at this to keep it going. Hope someone can stop them. Prizes going down though I only ‘won’ €615,810…but they did send me two letters which is not so efficient!

From Ireland.

Thank you very much for this website. I apprecaite that these scams are obvious but it is reassuring that a website likes yours is out there informing people. I received my letter today. The details are:

La Primitiva Lottery International promotions programme
loterias y Apuestaas del Estado
Apartado de Correso 129
28085,
Madrid
Spain.
TEL 0034685613560
FAX 0034911817684
TEL 0034645012362

Regards

Peter.

I have also received a letter informing me that I have won 615810 euros. My first thought was ”scam” and I am very pleased to have found this website confirming all that I believed.
My only regret is that there seems very little people can do to hit back at these crooks. I shall return a piece of paper with a very blunt message to the address I have in Spain. I will not put a stamp on it in the hope that the postal service there will at least charge them a few euros for the pleasure of receiving it. Needless to say I shall not include my name or address.

I have just received same letter from La Primitiva Lottery International Promotions. Contact this time is Estrella Seguridad S.A and contact is Dr Pedro Perez! Having read all previous comments am not going to waste my time ringing. Thanks for all previous advice.

hi, i just recieved one of the letters today from La Primitiva, so glad i looked on the internet and found this web site, my friend and I couldn’t believe it. What a scam. Thanks!!!

The award letters are bits of poorly scanned and captured letter headings. The security company logo on top of the letter even has an enter button left over from the screen capture from the real company’s website!!

From Northern Ireland –

I just got one of these letters today myself. I was a bit concerned at first because I had just returned from holiday in the Canary Islands the day before where I bought a Euro Millions lottery just before I came home! The post mark is Malaga and I see that someone has kindly provided the address of the Police Headquarters in Malaga – thanks for all your info.

thx all for info. have received letters from international lotto promotions. contact this time is grupo bilbao security company s.a. and contact is Dr Carlos Haya.
Total amount i had won is 785,790.00 euros.

Hi, new recipient here, as soon as I saw this today I reached a new high. But then it said on the envelope Middlesex, London, which is actually the wrong town.

Always look for detail cos even in the registration form they ask for waaay too much detail no one who is about to pay you would would ever ask you for that much info.

Good job i checked before jacking the job and popping the bubbly.Hope no one gets taken in as my dear old mum would say you don’t get anything for nothing.

i was very surprised to get today this kind of letter informing me that i won more than 900 000£. it come from LOTERIA PRIMITIVA.

well i recieved tha same kind of letter, nd according to it i have won more than 860000 euros, the lottery i never had purchased in my life.
thanx to this web site that i came to know the reality and facts behind that scam.

Well, what can i say? For a couple of minutes, my problems were all solved! I was a bit apprehensive when i saw that they were asking for a copy of my passport/driver’s licence. I called the number given in the letter – 0034 656 301 830 and spoke to Dr Pedro Garcia, as per detailed in the letter.

Dr Garcia(?) was extremely anxious that I send my identification and when I told him the I did not think it prudent, his reply was….. ‘Well, you don’t what the money then’ – and he promptly hung up.

LOL I think this, also, is part of the scam…….

Pity though……

Hi eberyone, yesterday I recieved this letter from Elgordo but the difference with mine was they also sent me a cheque for $1350.00 CDN funds. The cheque seems to look real to me. So I called the # on the letter and gave them the reference # and they actually told me to go ahead and cash the cheque and then call them back. After I cash the cheque they told me they will require an insurance, shipping fee of $950.00. That will still leave me up $400.00. Could this be for real? Should I cash the cheque? Has anyone else recieved this letter with an actual real cheque? I look forward to hearing from everyone.

Thanks

Well guys Dr Mario Sanchez has resurfaced. Received letter 10/9/07. Letter worded as many above. Letter was posted from Malaga, Spain. I had won 615,810 euro’s. As you did, my first thought was scam. Checked the internet and found this site which confirmed my suspicions. Please note a slight difference in their latest letter. It states that I, along with 25 000 others, were picked at random by a computer to receive a promotional entry to La Primtiva Lottery. Which, of couse I won a share of first prize. Get real. Many thanks for info on site. Letter will be in bin shortly.

Cheers

Well I never, Dr Sanchez must be a bit busy signing letters as he seems to have got his assistant, Antonio Gomez to write to me to tellm me I’ve won 615,810 euro’s.
They should use some of the money to buy a new prnter as the inkjet machine they are using doesn’t print the bar code or company name very well at all on the cheap paper they use.
How can anyone take this seriously?
They ask for so much personal information including more next of kin details than trainee astronauts have to provide.
Sorry for the rant, apart from winning 615,800 euro’s I must have had a bad day!

wow im rich???????????????????????or am i
only because i have the net i would have sent back the form to
claim my 615,810.00 euros
thanks for this site.
please catch these ………. u know the words
do the lottery instead bye

Just wondering if anyone has recieved the letter as well as a cheque? In all these postings I seem to be the only lucky person who recieved an actual cheque with the letter for amount of $1350.00. I have been too scared to cash it still. I look forward to hearing from everyone.

received one of these letters this morning saying that a Bilbao Seguros had brought this ticket in my name? why woould some one want to use my name ”tell him to use his own” massive scam watch out!

I just revieved one of these letters from a Dr RINA SANCHEZ (very academic family, their parents must be so proud).

This one was from a company called PACIFIC SEGUROS SA ESPANA. It did look legit although it claimed to have an address in Madrid but had a malaga postmark on it. Maybe he posted it when he was on holiday.

I too would like to know where they got my address. Should I hand this to the police or something or is there not much point?

@ Tony:

You could try the police, or rather you should. But don’t have too much hope that they will be able to anything about it. Policing is still a lokal activity, while scamming is global…

My dad received a letter after sending in a scratchcard win to the Eurosweepstake Lottery S.A. He contacted me as was very anxious about his win. I have seen the letter it has an address on from PLAZA JUAN CARLOS C-14 IN MADRID SPACE TE: 0034 6195 10 040. It basically says the same as all your comments above stating that he has won a lump sum payout of euros 715,555.00 credited his file number. The fund is deposited with a security company and insured in his name. It also goes on to say ”Due to mix up of some numbers and names we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your cliam has been proceessed. …. Ballot system drawn from 25,000 names . He had to contact a MARIO ORTIZ the foreign operaions manager of Daily Care Security Company S.A. on 0034 653 534 242. He needs to fax back his name, address and bank account details and say if he wants to be paid by (a) bank transfer or (b) pick up and also ask for Next of Kin information.

Who is going to tell my dad the bad news!!!

Exactly the same letter from GRUPO BILBAO SECURITY COMPANY is now doing the rounds in germany……..we`ve all won the lottery!!! keep up the good work!!

Hello.
I live in Estonia, Europe and my granny got a real letter in paper from la primitva lottery promotions program , not as email. This letter is similar to the first one in this page, but vice president is Pedro Cliff Antonio. Is it possible that THIS one is real?
Win was about 460 000 Euros.

I´M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO GET SOME ANSWERS.
Thank You

Thanks for putting this out on the net. We’ve recieved the same letter as Tony from Dr Rina Sanchez. Obviously a scam! Anywhere we can send it to so we can bring the scum down?

Recived lottery winning notification today from Global Hogar Security S.A.
Thought my lucky day,my first scam letter.
How would they get my name and aderess

I have got about a same letter. First I didn’t believe it at all, I nearly put it on trash.. Today I did use time spelling the letter with dictionary, becouse I wanted to be sure I really understand the message. Am I really a winner? And today I finally started to believe that now the money-problems of me and my family are finally gone away for a while… Well, the paper is cheap and stamps are fuzzy…. 🙁

But miy faher has few years ago take a part of some international lottery program. He has sent them some mony even, so that they would handle a lottery-prosess on behalf of him. I warned my father, but now…. Now it seemed to be succeed in that. Could this still be real? Are you sure this is feak? Or was it a cheat?

If this kind of lottery-program is REALLY going on in Europe, it’s not a surprise that swindlers are in a way also. But how could youi be suri, is this one feak or not?

Recieved a very similar letter today thought it was too good to be true, and would be worth checking out on the web to see if it is a scam and I think the answer would be YES!!!!!!. Got a different agent called Raul Torres, just something else to look out for. What a shame the money would have been lovely!!!!

Hi

I don`t know what to say. I`m happy to read this homepage and to have a careful mom.
Our story is: My parents traveled from Germany to portugal with car in 15. August and my mom had to stay for a few hours in Hospital in Spain. Last week they got a letter written in German. ”Translated Copy” was written on it. My mom read it and didn`t react because she is a very careful person. My mom asked where they got her adress from. Ì don`t live there since June 2006.
My Parents don`t use e-mail very often and don`t get spam-mails. When i saw the letter without reading i could see that it is a fake.
The stamp was a bad printed copy and put on it. The quallaty of the print was not very professional. a lot of mistakes. It was imitating a hologram saying ”Loterias y Apuestas del Estado”.

#The win was 615.810 EUROS. They wwrite that there are 17 winners and with totaly 10.468.770 Euros. If they don`t react to the letters to get the money, the Win will be send back to Ministerio de Economia y Hacienda.
The Category was Number 3 and my mom`s Winning numbers are 13-15-16-21-34-36. The also write a Cardnumber with Seriennumber that win. But she doesnt have any card and din`t play anything.
Adresse was Madrid Telefone 0034-636-662-492. Elgordo Lotería Primitiva With EAN Bar-Code and Send from Jose L. Miguel but signed by someone else. seems like G.Antonio.
The Agent is Don Pedro Delgado from
Global Hogar Security S.A.Comp.
Guzman el Bueno 137, 28001 Madrid.

A second page was to send to Global Hogar in which mymom may wirte her adress and the way how to get money. She can choice between bank transfer, Cheque or get money directly. Unfortunatly I don`t know anyone how lives in Madrid to get the money direcrly. I have to send fax back till 3. Oktober 2007.

It is interesting that they change little details in the letters but they all seem to be from the same person how belongs into jail for this fake.

I will sent this pages to German TV and wait for any reaction. No one offers money for free.

Lili

I called at my mothers house sat. am. with her weekend newspaper after visiting the local gym. She was still in her dressing gown at 9.15 and she hadn’t touched her bowl of cereal. ”Mike” she said, ”you better look at this, I,ve read it twice and I’m 95% sure its official”.
First thoughts ”SCAM”
She thought she had won €925,000.00 The letter went like this:-
ATTENTION: The Award Winner,
This is to inform you on the release of the EL- GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA PROGRRAM held on the 27th July 2007. Due to a mix up of some numbers and names,the results were released on the 25th September 2007. Your name attached to ticket number 031-1127-841 with serial number 3214-07 drew the lucky numbers of 21-22-37-39-41-49 which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category. You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payout of €925,000.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND EUROS ONLY). This is just the start of the letter which was accompanied by a Payment Processing Form asking about payment options.
Please complete immediatly along with photo ID
1. BANK TRANSFER (asking for bank details) 2. CERTIFIED CHEQUE 3. PERSONAL CASH PICK. Also asking for name, address & tel. no. of next of kin.
there was a claims agent MR HUGO SANCHEZ Foreign operations manager SANTALUCIA SEGUROS, S.A. On Tel. 0034-695252137.
If anyone reading this with a time difference of over +5 or -5 hrs can they telephone him in the middle of the night spanish time and interupt his sleep I’d be very appreciative. To minimise the cost of your call go to web site TeleDiscount and find the pre fix number to dial before the one above for Hugo Sanchez.
My mother has played the El Gordo lottery a few times and with owning a couple of weeks timeshare in Spain this is probably how they obtained her address.
We were keeping this info from the rest of the family until the cheque was in the bank. Still under caution about the whole thing we discussed in detail of how the money would be distributed amongst the family and being mortgage free etc. this really put a spring in our step until finding this web site in work on Monday morning. Gobshites!

I just got my lottery winning notification letter through my door. It’s got a picture of a fella with with a beard handing a cheque to some other fella with a beard, and his short, stocky wife. They look thrilled. So am I. Apparently I’ve won 785,510.00 Euros in the Loterias Y Apuestas Del Estado which I don’t seem to remember entering. The text is pretty much word for word as the examples given by other people on this website. As it happens, I was in Spain on Aug 24th when my winning ticket was ‘selected’. But I don’t remember giving my address to anyone. Apart from to the hotel. Where are they getting people’s details? Maybe my claims agent Mr Ephraim Finely can tell me, once I’ve faxed off all my bank and credit card details plus a cheque for 10% of my winnings. The whole thing disturbs me. This is the first time I’ve experienced one of these kind of scams.

Has anyone recieved an actual cheque with the Scam letter? Why am I the only person who actually got a cheque from a bank in Calgary for the amount of $1250.00 Candian funds. I am scared to cash it because then they will have my banking info. I called the # on the letter and he told me to cash it and then call him back and then they will require an insurance fee of $950.00. What should I do??Any ideas??? Thanks

My mother who is deaf received a letter this morning and send a text message to me. my partner thought it could be a scam so advised her to fax a copy to us. Thank god for my lovely partner she tapped into this website. How she must be feeling when i text back saying its all a scam. She did buy a lottery in Benidorm spain and they are the numbers she picked 05 08 13 28 46 49.
the winnings was for 615,810.00 contact name was Dr Don Kimon tel 00 34 676 721 239. how could these people do this, its so cruel. hope they find them and send them to jail!!

thanks to the website

Hi to all concern

Reading through these letters wakes me up to realise that I have just lost $3000 in payment to get the money that I have won according to there terms and condition. It was exactly the same letters that are going around. I was so embarassed I wanted to bury myself alive as I went and told all my friends that I will recieved $600,000 how dump of me. Now my Mum is comforting me at home and telling me not to go see my friends anymore, cos they expect me to share the winning. Lets bring them to justice.

Got the same letter here in South Africa. I normally keep a very low profile on Internet and the only two instances during the last year where I supplied my information, has been in the last two weeks leading up to receipt of the letter. I am interested in importing from China and registered with Alibaba.com and Asian Winner. Supplied my info exactly as it was copied on the envelope from ”Spain”. Certain the link can be found with one of these two companies. Think I will ever do business with any one of them?

@TuilokomanaMelehifo

You have all my sympathies. But don’t be embarassed, be angry. And take the whole thing to the local authoroties. The more people who react, and file their complaints with the police, the bigger the chance that something can be done about scammers like this.

@Henk:
Great warning signs. But there is also quite a big chance that the scammers just registered to see other contacts, and picked your data from the site.

i recieved the same letter and send my details to them urgently.
now after chkin ur website i came to know that its all fraud.
thanks for opening my eyes .
pleez do tell my if any harm they can make.

I am so glad that i read all the notes by other people.
I am very short of cash and was a little over whelmed to see the letter.
I will not be sending all my details as i do not konw what will be done with them.
I think these scams are so wrong because for people like me that are in debt are looking for a way out and this just makes me feel really bad.

what is that,i dont know what is the realting or no???????

Thank you very very much for this site.
really usefull

my advice to everybody never answer the bandits
spanish police wake up we´re tired of you´re getting payed for doing nothing
STOP THE MAFIA NOW
THEY DAMAGE THE IMAGE
OF SPAIN AROUND THE GLOBE

Bonjour a tous et a toutes ,

Me voila a mon tour ”victime ” de cette supercherie ….. hélas je ne trouve pas d’autres mots .
J’ai recu la lettre hier matin , j’ai soit disant gagné a la loterie espagnole ”EUROSMILLION PRIMITTIVA INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY PROMOTION”, la somme de 615,810.00 euros !!
J’avais dans cette lettre une personne a contacter qui était Mr ALFREDO MARTINEZ au N° 0034652047982 , et le Fax 0034911011273.
Je l’ai donc appelé pour plus de renseignements , car il faut savoir que j’ai gagner a un tirage au sort datant de l’an 2000 !! , mais malheuresement ils n’ont pas pu me joindre avant malgré (selon eux) des recherches très poussées .
Je demande donc des explications et la Mr MARTINEZ me répond en espagnol que son secrétariat est fermé , me demande mon N° de tel que je donne et me dit qu’on me rappelerait .
Effectivement quelques mn après une personne du nom de Mme Bienve MARTINEZ me rappelle , et elle parlait un francais des plus remarquable ….
Elle me confirme que j’ai gagner a cette loterie et que cela devait venir a cette époque d’un coupon de jeux sur un produit auquel j’ai du participé (ce qui était fort possible car il m’arrive de participer a des jeux ) .
Elle me demande de lui envoyer un fax avec mon nom , adresse, numéro de tel , et bien sur mes références gagnantes de la loterie ainsi que le mode de paiment que je souhaite (soit chèque soit virement ) .
Je lui fax donc tout cela (a savoir que jusque la j’y ai presque cru ) , je la rappelle comme convenu a sa demande une fois cette opération effectuée , et la elle dit soit je vous rappelle ce soir ou au plus tard demain (donc aujourd’hui) avant 10h , si je ne l’ai pas fais …. appelez moi .
J’ai commencé a avoir des doutes et ma curiosité a été plus forte que le reste j’ai commencé a chercher sur internet et je suis tombée sur ce site …..
Adieux les reves !! bonjour le triste retour a la réalité !!
Je ne l’ai pas rappelé comme convenu , j’ai attendu pour voir , et la a ma grande surprise elle m’a appelé toute a l’heure , en me disant ”voila je viens de chez le notaire , votre somme y a été déposé mais il a quelques inconvénients ”.
Je lui demande lesquels et la elle commence a me parler du Ministère des Finances d’Espagne , de la Banque qui aurait selon elle besoin de certificat d’authentification .
Bien sur je ne comprend pas , elle m’explique qu’en fait pour pouvoir m’envoyer mon chèque de 615,810.00 euros , je dois lui verser une certaine somme afin qu’au niveau du Ministère des Finances et de la Banque je n’ai pas de soucis (soit disant interne) pour pouvoir toucher mon chèque .
Je lui demande donc le montant que je dois verser et la elle me dit 990 euros !!!!
Je lui dit que je n’ai pas une telle somme , elle me dit de me débrouiller pour l’avoir d’ici une semaine sinon mes gains seront perdus pour moi …., que 990 euros ce n’est rien a rapport a la somme que je vais toucher .
Voila j’en suis la a l’heure ou je vous écris , je pense que je vais rentrer dans son jeux voir jusqu’ou elle va aller , bien sur elle ne verra pas un centime de part mais j’avoue que je suis assez en colère contre ce genre de personne qui pourrait profiter de personnes crédules, agés, malades etc ..
Je vous tiendrais au courant de la suite de mes aventures .

I just got home to find a letter from Spain..I know no one there and once i had opened the letter, whala! it said i won a million euros from El Gordo international lottery program…I called the number given to find out more about it and the contact person given was not in (according to the person i spoke to he said that he was in belgium and did not know when he would be back) as i spoke to someone else…..am bilingual and spanish is my second tongue. the person on the other end switched to english because he claimed he did not understand what i was talking about…..however i continued in spanish and he replied back in english (he sounded like he was from african origin). He claims it was official so i got in touch with the ministro de economia y hacienda in Madrid to be told that it was a scam. After i checked around and saw this site i was reliefed to find that this was a scam and that i was not the only one who got this letter or email..pity…..that money would have done nicely for my wedding and honeymoon next year!!! oh well….luckly i had the sense to look further….So anyone else who may have gotten this letter watch out!

Hi there,

i also received such a letter from spain. And for the first time i opened a letter like this because of the real stamp attached to the envelope. I won 815.510 Euro, and i only had to send back the formular or call Mr. Alex Gomez.
Unfortunaly i didn’t play lotto in the last year. And the translation into German was really bad, hardly to understand… And no Signature, only a printed one. Because of this i luckily couldn’t take it serious and googled it. The name of Mr Gomez took me to your Site, Nikke! Thank you very much for your work and all you other guys for your replies, i wouldn’t have found this site without your detailed description of your letters including the names.
Look on the bright side of life: In my case it costed them the price of one stamp! And the have to send a lot of letters and need a lot of stamps… 😉
Best regards and keep on being good people!
Michael

…once again: Thank you, Nikke!

hello im 20 yrs old from australia i also received this letter i read it and cheaked the internet 1st and luckely i didnt have a heart attack with excitement with is very possible because i have a rare heart desease wich if i am overly excitted or stressed i could drop dead and being 34 weeks pregnant in and out of hospital these last few dayz was likely if i had taken this letter seriouslyly but nothing is free and it seamed like there would be a catch and if i had waisted the spanish phone call from australia at a time where i am finantially struggerling enough as it is. but its nice to know there are ppl out their who will put the net to good use to help reasure ppl like us who receive this that it is just a scam. thanks heaps i did not need the stress of this atm and apriciate ur time to spread the word about these scammers coz naturally ne one would want to be reasured that it was for real or not. truth is today i spent a lil part of the day wondering what if …. and u know what, i would have liked some money but i wouldnt want to receive so much i think if i ever did win that much id only want so much the rest id want to give away donate and put away still giving me that chase in life to get things on my own and not all of it for free u appriciate what u earn still wouldnt it be nice for a lil lol

ive received a letter like that today as well it was from spain but i dont know what to do …. wat do u think abou that should i fill in the form or may be a fraud????

My wife got a similar letter today, although they have changed the name of the security company to GLOBAL HOGAR SECURITY S.A. and the chaps name is now DON LUIS BENITO. Otherwise the scam is the same. Thanks for your bringing it to everybody’s attention. I think it’s disgraceful the way that these scum bags target people who are usually the least likely to be able to afford to lose this money.

My wife rcvd the same letter with prize amount of €915810.00…. Walaaa…. a sudden milionaire…. yeah… for real…. if they really want to give us the money, just post the cheque to the same address that they send the letter & we would happilly give the 10% or even 20% fm the prize amount once the cheque is cleared!!!! hua hua hua… tough luck!!! anyway, thanks for setting up this web site…

Bonjour tout le monde,

vous savez pourquoi je suis sur ce site. j’ai reçu effectivement un courrier el-gordo de la loteria nationale disant qu’il y a eu un tirage au sort le 19/08/2007 et que lauréate de la somme de 615 810€. donc il me demande de renvoyer la fiche de traitement de versement lotterie dûment remplie et de la faire parvenir par fax au numéro suivant : 0034 911 414 258. imaginez-vous que lorsque vous recevez un tel courrier, vous vous dites que vous pourrez réaliser vos rêves. Donc, je fais le nécessaire et demande de m’envoyer mon prix comme option ”par chèque”.
nous sommes le 22/10/2007, vers 10h30 , mon téléphone sonne et la surprise du chef, j’ai en ligne Mr PEPE RUIZ qui me demande d’aller à la poste et d’envoyer 1050€ par mandat à TINA DUFED, avenuda Portugal n° 16 N – 28043 MADRID ESPAGNE. Quand j’aurai fait tout cela de le rappeler au n° 0037 687 075 210 et faire parvenir la photocopie de ma pièce d’identité et la photocopie du mandat envoyé au 0034 911 311 875.
Vous rendez compte que ces gens là n’ont aucune scrupule de s’acharner sur des malheureux qui se serrent la ceinture pour atteindre la fin du mois. C’est dommage que certaines personnes vivent sous la coupe des pauvres qui vont gagner leur pain quotidien tous les jours à la sueur de leur front.
c’est dommage que la vie soit aussi pourri par de tel malfaiteur.
merci pour votre site. j’espère que el-gordo de la loteria nationale portera plainte à ce niveau là. Ils ne peuvent pas laisser des voleurs comme cela salir leur nom et société
anie flore

Hello everyone, I got the same letter today 22th of october 2007. The letter is defenetly a scam. I got the letter by mail not through the Internet. At first I was happy, since I do speak spanish and do play and use spanish sites sometimes I thought I had really won. I decided to Investigate and found this site. I am glad I did because there is somany that have the same letter.

My Advice ist throw the letter in the Trash.

My neighbours (elderly and limited english) received this letter – they won 315,810 euros. They do not have access to internet, fax or any other ”modern” means of communication. How do these scammers get their name and address. Luckily they have good family and neighbours and did not return any information but I would like to know more on their behalf

I live in vietnamese … I want more information . .. I write and speak english is very bad … Please if you can write vietnamese ….
You sent me a letter winner PRIZE ( 2007 LUCKY WINNER)
My E-mail address won you 5 million euros … True ??? Or Lie ?
Sent me a letter as soon as possible

Wakenya msidanganywe!!!!
Hawa ni wahuni wa Ulaya. ( we could be millionaires by now if all this were true)

ciao tutti.anch’io ho ricevuto una lettera uguale.non sapevo cosa pensare…se era uno scherzo oppure la verità.ragazzi meno male che esiste internet.ma io mi domando…..perchè mandano queste lettere???? qual è il loro profitto????? un bacio a tutti

Received a letter today from The Desk of the Vice President, International Promotions, Murcia. The letter is almost identical to the ones mentioned above, but it refers to a win on Lototurf Internacional, a bona fide and long running Spanish horse racing lottery. The contact is–Don David Sanchez, senior advocate for a supposed law firm by the name of Allied Chambers Abogados Alicante. This is just another rip-off using a different lottery name and official sounding contacts. To quote; All participants’ tickets were purchased through the lagoon touristica by the customer relations of many global companies e.g. airline, insurance, and other consumer goods or services companies drawn from 25,000 names; unquote. This is their way of saying that we don’t have to personally buy a lottery ticket. I don’t know how they got our names and address, but our recent visit to Mexico may have something to do with it. They were also very kind to show a photocopy of our ‘winning’ ticket. This is a good site folks, so take heed of the advice Nikke and all the other contributers give. Keep up the good work.

Hi guys,
same letter, same scam.
My contact person was Dr. Pepe Torres, foreign operations manager of Seguros Bilbao (a real insurance company, of course)….funny name!!

Thanks for this site, Nkke.

Hi,
Thanks for this webpage mate! When I got the letter, I thought, well I can speak Spanish, why should I pay the 10% fee to the insurance company, and I can just ask for a cheque so it’s safer. Then it dawned on me, this is just a mail they photocopy. It IS sent from Spain, but the letter doesn’t have my name on it, only the enveloppe has my name and address, the rest of the document is on poor quality paper with a colour inkjet printer. Now why would they send a poor man’s printout? I’ve never seen such a poor-looking official document, but because I willed it to be true, I did have to check online. Deadline to claim my 674349 euros is 16 Nov 2007. Anyway, hy would the vice president of Alliance Security Company Ltd write to me, why not Mr Andaluz’s secretary?

Hi..I’m from Malaysia..Sorry if my English bad..Few days ago I also received the same letter from Madrid Spain..I really shocking when get the letter..Can you imagine when they told me that I won’t lump sum 785,510.00 in Euro..But in my situation I have to pay 10% of my winning to claim agent after the fund gets to me..It is true?..Please help me..

We received the same letter today from these pricks in the 3rd world country of Spain (that’s why they’re scamming). We dreamt for 5 mins then rang the phone number provided, spoke to a Don guy (lol all the names above are from a Don guy). I played with him for a while when I realised it was a scam, and all the time I was trying to speak, he’d butt in and say ‘just listen to me’. I said I’m not sending any money to him, and he said ‘fine, you don’t have to’. I then said to him that before I’d fax him any details, I’d check with my local police and authorities here in Australia, he didn’t seem phased, he hears it all the time. These scum bastards from other countries are quite funny to me, as I know they are trying to scam poor bastards like us for money they obviously need to live. They can’t do an honest days work to earn their money, the low life scum sucking pricks. They’ll get caught one day or something bad will happen to them, I believe in karma. It did cost me an international call, but who gives a f**k, I heard the goose’s voice and got him all excited thinking I believed him lol. To be honest, I have better things to do with my time. This is a great site, I only hope no one has been sucked in by these Dons or Marias. And why the f**k does every amount here end in 810 e.g. we ‘won’ Euro 315,810, someone else ‘won’ Euro 915,810. That’s discrimination, we missed out on Euro 600,000, which works out to be a gazillion aussie dollars lol. Only joking, thanx again for this site, and as mentioned a thousand times above, you never win anything for nothing. Regards to all.

I was also sent this same letter some days ago to the apartment in Berlin where I used to live. Its so sad that some people really believe in letters like the one mentioned here. I had seen documents about this kind of criminal acts in finnish television channels years ago, so I knew not to trust something this funny.

Thanks for making the sites, as we can see it has helped many people with internet connection to avoid from criminality.

I was in the middle of my wedding arrangements and as usual less budget more purchases, so I was so happy after receiving this letter yesterday that I won the amount of 20,937,540 Euro I was like out of this world but after reading this site and comments of hundreds of people my heart is like if it is going to stop God be praised I still pray that this is true yesterday I spend almost 500 hundred rupees calling Spain sending fax and again today I’ve to call at about 9:00 am. I’m confused what to do, please help!

Hi there especially Ellin Khali from Malaysia,

I’m from Malaysia too. I also received a letter from ElGordo Primitiva Loteria mid of this month mentioned that i won a lotery with amount of Euros 615,800. First of all i was thinking it is true. They want me to submit the payment processing form together with my bank details. I did that!! then i realised that i made a mistake. I took an action to check in the internet about this company. This is a scam programe. Please notice that the letter is printed in inkjet and blured scan. An agent name David Gill (and i don’t know what his others name and he speak very bad english)claim he’s from Midland Seguros SA will do all the processing of transfer the fund to my account. And another guy name Phil Borja claim as an officer from Guardian International Bank Madrid Spain called me and ask me to make a payment of USD1250 to my agent or the processing fee. Then i’m thinking what the hell is this all about. They require a 5% commission from my winning amount and then ask me to pay usd 1250. what the fuck is this. i know something not right.
Then i check with bank of espana ( spain central bank) and there is no such Guardian International Bank in Madris, spain. I also read a lot of report about this scam program. Police of Spain also did mentioned to beware of Phil Borja from Guardian International Bank. So be carefull with this scam programe. Phil Borja and David Gill is a big scammer. Beware of them. I’m sorry to say that all these scammer are come from poor country and there’re trying to steal our money. Go and get a good job guy. It’s good for you to wash the plate in restaurant rather than stealing people money. God will revenge anything you done wrong guy.

Hi, got the same letter today from the same lot, Euro 615,810 won on spanish lotto. Knew straight away it was a scam. Problem is, these bastards do get money from some poor unsuspecting people and thats why they keep on doing it. Fair dues to this website and other sites like it for trying to make the general public more aware of these scams, keep up the good work… Paul in Ireland

Thanks Nikke, for this website!

I’ve had two of these letters in the last couple of weeks. One was concerning the Loturf Internacional Easter Program and the other one was about the Spanish Lotto Nacional Lottery Program.

I do wonder where they got my address from, especially since they had got my UK address correct and then added Norway at the bottom (I used to live in Norway).

Obviously too good to be true, so I just put them away and decided to check the internet for information.

I do wonder where they got my address from, especially since they had got my UK address correct and then added Norway at the bottom (I used to live in Norway).

My wife just received one of these letters yesterday 7th Niovember 2007, and it looked TOO GOOD to be true. I also wondered where they got her correct name from? A mention of comming from travelling ticket foils gave a little credence to the letter as she had been travelling overseas to China earlier this year, so are these a source of gathering this information?
Decided to check up on the ‘So Called’ company and sure enough it is a scam. I do not know if the authorities here in New Zealand are interested, will check on this though. Thank goodness for the information that is available on the internet.

hi folks,i receive this letter today and i start dreaming,looks to good to be true.the letter was from loteria primitiva and i ”won”615810.00 euros.now i know is a scam,thanks to you,,,but how they can get our names and adresses ??how?
from where?anyone knows? thank you for this site
see ya

Hello folks!
I was scamed as you. received the letter today saying I received the exact sum of 315.810.00 euros (it seems others have won that same amount!!)hmmn..
I am a poor student, thought oh well it might be true,I was actually in spain this spring and so on…
so PLEASE do not be fooled. And as someone mentioned; look at the cheap quality of paper, and better yet the signature at the bottom is even copied as well!!! They messed it up BAD. So Dear Espinosa José Sanchez (who ever you are..!) remember that what you give you get and all things must come to and end. As this. Thankyou Nikki for creating this forum. Anne

Bonsoir,

Aadeel, de Paris. Quelle ne fut ma surprise en recevant cette lettre hier chez moi par la poste !!! Lauréat de 615 810 €, wow !!! Heureusement, je ne fais JAMAIS attention à ce genre de ‘conneries’ !!! Et ce forum me donne malheureusement raison ! Mais effectivement combien de personnes se sont faites gruger par ces escrocs !!! Ma lettre a été postée à Malaga, et provenait de Linda Rodriguez, Bureau du Vice-Pdt, Promotions Internationales. Mon ”agent” s’appelle Dr (docteur en escroquerie apparemment !!!) Martin Carlos, de la compagnie GRUPO BILBAO FINANCE/SECURITE ECONOMIC SA.

Merci en tout cas, Nikki, de nous permettre d’apporter nos témoignages sur ce genre d’escroqueries !!!

Bonne continuation à vous. Aadeel.

Slightly different version sent to me on 10Nov 2007.

2007 WINNING NOTICEDear RESULTS FOR NOVEMBER 2007 CATEGORY ”A” We are happy to inform you that you have emerged a winner under the NOVEMBER. LUCKY DRAWS second Category, which is part of our promotional draws.The draws were held prior to your notification.Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 4,000,000names/email addresses of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Middle East, and New Zealand as part of our International Promotions Program.You/Your Company, attached to ticket number IL353/04/46 with serial number IL35376EW drew the lucky numbers 12, 14, 19,21,23,5 (8), You have therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out Three Million Pounds (3,000,000.00 GBP) in cash, which is the winning payout for Category “A” winners.NOTE: For easy reference and identification find below your reference numbers.Note that you are to forward this email to the (Claims Agent) for your prize claim processing.Claims Agent ContactREFERENCE NUMBER: MA/02/453876752/NLMrs. Cherry RingsCONTACT EMAIL ADDRESS:ringscherrydesk05@jmail.co.zaN.B.ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO DISQUALIFICATION. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MAIL BOX, YOU ARE TO CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT FOR FURTHER PRIZE CLAIM PROCEDURE.YOU ARE TO FILL OUT THIS FORM TO FILE FOR YOUR CLAIMS1. FULL NAMES: ________2.ADDRESS: _______ 3. SEX:_______________4. AGE: ________5. MARITAL STATUS: ___________________6. OCCUPATION: ________________________7. E-MAIL ADDRESS: _____________________________8. TEL AND FAX NUMBERS: _____________________9. REFERENCE NUMBERS: ____________________10. TICKET NUMBER: ___________________11. SERIAL NUMBER: __________________12. AMOUNT WON: ___________________________________13. STATE: __________________________________14. COUNTRY________________________________Yours Truly,Williams Chester.Co-ordinator(Online Promo Programme)THE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD UKLOTTERY PROMOTIONFINANCIAL UNIT DIRECTOR/CONTROLLERFIRST SECURITIES AND TRIPPLE WINS INTERNATIONAL GAMES,UNITED KINGDOM BEDFORD HILL,BALLAM SW ENGLAND.

Hi, I received such a letter in the post today. I immediately smelled the rat and then found this website. Isn’t there a European law which deals with the criminals like these? Should I not report this to the police? If so, would anything be done about it?

Best wishes,
Ewa

also received letter from spain yesterday, wasnt particularly well done, actually I coud have done it better myself. Will send it on to address above. what a bunch of total gits.

Hey,
i received the same letter two days ago. it looks like they are only changing the winnings and the name of the vice president. i won 815800 euroes, and the name of the vice president was now mr sanchez paco.
i was in spain during the summer. we had to list our home address at some of the hostels we were staying. i guess they are picking up adresses that way..
mvh simon (denmark)

Hi,

Just got a snailmail letter with the same content. I ‘won’ 615,810.00 euros in LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY.

This was the first time I got one through normal mail. They even spent 58 eurocents on a stamp…

I found the logos etc. of poor quality, not exactly something you may expect from a company that gives away millions of euros…

Also it was stamped in Malaga, some 1000 kms away from the comany’s address.

Off course this kept me busy and asked my son to look it up on the internet.

many people in Holland received exactly the same ‘prize’ and some were asked to pay 10 percent ahead of payment.

The Dutch police also have placed a warning in the press against these letters.

Would have been nice to really win a prize like this, but I never do lotteries. That’s also the strange thing: you ‘win’ a huge amount of money in a lottery you never heard of. This should always ring some bells.

Godblessu,
Erwin (Almere, Netherlands)

By the way, I never left my address in Spain. They must have gotten it somewhere on the internet. Maybe they’ve got spybots that invade ‘secure’ websites…

Erwin (Almere, Netherlands)

hey my names jon and im only 17 and i just got a letter in the mail, like basically EVERYBODY ELSE here:P obviously i knew it was a fake and i just hope anyone else who gets one of these doesnt get fooled because theyre going through hard times liek my mom and believe that they are getting all this money that is promised. and anyway, YOU could probably make a better scam that this word-processed registration form;)

Well it has arrived in Canada. Thank you for this site.

Well i´ve got the letter to my adress in Sweden, this one is from Alfredo Chambers & Commerce.

I won the ”Eurosmillion Primitiva International Lottery Promotion” held in year 2005 on a special Centinary Program, amount 615.810.00 EUR.

My contactman is Alfredo Martinez Garcia.

Anybody else got this one?

Thank for this site Nikke!

Regards from the snowy and cold north Sweden!

I got this kind of letter as a hardcopy (2 pages) and a stamp for 0,58 €. (!!)
Seems that these people earn quite a lot, that they even send real letters … Crazy ;(
Anyway, thank’s for the site, really helpful 🙂

Hi Everyone,

I got a similar letter in Pakistan, My family was adamant that we send our bank acc details and other valuable information, i am just glad to have come across this website..back in 2002 I recieved a similar letter from the same promotional company when I was studying at college in Indiana USA, its quite clear to me now these scammers cant fool ppl there they are desprately trying all over the world for some on

Hi, I received the same letter, except that
the name was different- Centrol Finance House SA. Security Service in Madrid – Spain.
I never bought a ticket, so I could´nt possibily have won a price, the amount being € 615 810,– minus Handling Fees of 10% apparently payable after receiving the amount mentioned. I phoned and spoke to a
Mr. Jose R. Williams, he sent me a Authentic
looking form. I kept this form and did some researching in our Internet System. Thanks to everybody that wrote something in this website ….. Dont trust these Gangsters….

bonjour
hier mon copain et moi etions vraiment surpris de voir que nous avions recu une lettre disans que nous avions gagné au loto..

nous avions gagné 615.810 euro mais cela devait rester confidentiel a cause d’une confusion avec certains numéro et noms.. vraiment bizarre.

J’ai alors décidé de verifier sur internet et par chance j’ai trouvé se site
cela me fai mal au coeur de penser que des gens se serve de la naiveté et des rêve des gens pour se faire de l’argent

Well I had the house paid for, the next 1 bought, holiday booked to Austrialla and the Aston Martin ordered!! Until I made the phonecall! some idiot with no english who answered the phone with just an hello no name of company mentioned. I asked was this a joke to which he replied in pigeon english, our company don’t joke. when I asked him where he got my name as I havn’t been to spain since I was about 9 years old! he suggested that maybe I had bought something by visa or something! Went onto this site immediatley thank God so thanks. Have to work for a while yet though!!!!!

Hi just got one yesterday sent on 19th November from Malaga. I live in Glasgow, Scotland and thought it strange an envelope from Malaga with authentic stamp
Win amount 615,810.00 Euro
Contact Person : Dr. Vincente Carlos, Foreign Operation Manager GLOBAL HOGAR SECURITY S.A. on Tel: 0034 615-132-931 and Fax 0034 654-859-243 or 0034 635-037-011
Its good to have this site to stop people getting involved with this scam.
Cheers, David

Another story verifying this fraud from the UK BBC website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/x-ray/sites/allarticles/updates/6p11_lottery.shtml

Ireland here and you guessed it, I got home today to find I won €615,810… no mortage, build that extension, and get that new sports car NOT. After making a cuppa, flipped open the laptop and did a SCAM search, got 1,000s of hits on this scam.

The way the name and address where writen, got me thinking; Surname and then First name, and the address was in a format I only ever used in my phone book listing, which I never used anywhere else, is the phone company selling he phone database to scammers?

Cheers,Paul.

Hej nicke, fick just ett brev från posten med nästan samma innehåll, jag ”vann” 925000 euros och skulle bara lämna in mina bank detaljer och skulle betala 10% för att få vinsten… (jaja)Kollade genast upp det på nätet! Tack för att du har denna sidan, för visst ser brevet riktigt ut… Men hur har de fått tag på adressen och hur kan de fortsätta så här?? Kan vi göra något? Jag bor också i Gbg. Mvh Frida

Hi Ireland struck again.
I received a letter in the post.
My 615,810 euros is with a new security company called El-Mundo Seguros S.A.
The contact person is Dr. Mario Sanchez.
Tel:0034 615 761 351
Fax:0034 911 311 835
Loterias y Apuestas del Estado,Apartado de Correos 129,28085,Madrid Spain
Tel:0034 646 352 204
Mr. Raul Antonio is Promotions Director

I don’t know how they got my address because I haven’t been to Spain in over 6 years.

Great site and hopefully no one will get scammed thanks to sites like this.

Thanks, Jonathan

I got one today, but it had a REAL stamp and was franked from Spain on the letter, and my address was hand-typed on the front. I live in Austria (but was in Spain in August/September) and I think someone is passing on information from the airlines to the person responsible for this. I will now fill out the form as Micheal Mouseywurst, (mouse-sausage) fax it, and let them think they have caught a fish. Bas**rds.

hi i received the same letter today,before i researched this scam in the internet i rang the number that was written on the letter.this guy answered the phone, he sounded like African.I told him about the letter i received he made it to be very real,he also said to fax my details to them for payment.I faxed this letter but didnt give my bank detail.I was thinking later on and told my partner to look them up on the internet, all we got was what a scam they are.am glad i looked it up and found this site it is very usful.I want to now is how the hell did thay get everyones details,am not just taking about mine but worldwide. thankyou

Just to tell that I had a 3rd letter to day, stating it was a ”final notice” – and also I won 615,810 euro – nice 🙂

The contact person had changed to Dr. Paul David, Foreign Operation Manager.

The attention name on the envelope is the one I had two years ago, and the only way to get that name is from my MasterCard or plane-ticket to China.

Best regards to all – Regitze

I too have recently received news that I had won over 300.000€. This is the third time I have been ‘chosen’ and it went straight into the bin..!! On this occasion I was supposed to make a copy of my passport or driving license details..to be enclosed with the completed form..! How retarded can you get?

Attention evry one!

I just recieved a letter from Global Hogar security S.A. contact person Don Philip Carlos with Tel: 0034 695079048 that I was the lucky one who won 9,789,720.00 EUROS. and I have to pay 550 EUROS to recieve the cheque.

Don`t trust them these are thieves trying to make money with false documents

Attention evry one!

I have recieved same letter but I found it is a fake because no one in the world gives money with out any job.

Hi All Like Jonas I am supposed to have won 615,810 Euros!!.The letter arrived this morning 12/12/2007.Bullshit of course but what is interesting is the way my address is written.This is in a form only given on the City of Edinburgh, Scotland Electoral Register so the Scammers must be taking names from the electoral register and fishing hoping to catch a sucker.
Unfortunately some other Scammers are also targeting poor Africans by E Mail telling them they have won the British Lottery and to send cash & details to get their winnings.These people leave a mobile telephone number and when you phone it up[ it turns out to be another African living in the UK.

I have recieved the same letter just today, saying i have won €615,819.00. Telling me to fax EL-MUNDO SEGUROS S.A.

Thanks to all on this site, the letter has now gone straight into the bin.

Dearest One

Assalam alaikum and may the peace of gracious Allah be with you,please I have a problem which I needed a help from you,I have decided to write you for help.

I have a proposal for you-this however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honour against your will.I am in a state of mind and your profile pushed me to send you this mail,

I am Amina Hassan, 19 years old and the only daughter of my late parents Mr. and Mrs.Hassan. My father was a highly reputable business magnet (a cocoa merchant) who operated in the capital of Ivory coast during his days.It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in France during one of his business trips abroad.Though his sudden death was linked or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an uncle of his who travelled with him at that time. But Allah knows the truth! My mother died when I was just 4 years old, and since then my father took me so special.

Before the death of my father he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Seven million, five hundred thousand United State Dollars. US($7.500,000) left in fixed/suspense account in one of the prime banks here in Abidjan ,that he used my name as his only daughter for the next of Kin in depositing of the fund.

I am just 19 years old and a university undergraduate and really don’t know what to do. This is because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast. The death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life.

I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regards.Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded. Now permit me to ask these few questions:-
1. Can you honestly help me as your daughter?
2. Can I completely trust you?
3. What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the money is in your account? Please,
Consider this and get back to me as soon as possible.

Thank you so much.My salaam to your family.

My sincere regards,
Amina Hassan.contact email addre aminamy55@yahoo.fr

Important!

I received one of these letters too, with a processing form aswell. But, please, don’t just bin them!

Bear in mind that they are printed single sided so they make excellent drawing paper for the kids! 😉

€615,810 ! I’ll probably hand in my notice today…

hey hey hey., its sunny hartlepool in england here. just got a letter today. i got my letter from antonio carlos fernandez and while i’m sure he’s a lovely person he probably has an eye patch and a parrot maybe a wooden leg too. by the way my claim agent is dr paul mario, why would you call a doctor to make a claim for money? oh and another slight change to the previous letters they now use eurostar agency s.a at the top of the information sheet but that will probably change before this is posted.

Just come back after a weekend away to a letter from La Primitiva International stating we had won 615,810,00 euros! Just about to organise the press conference when we thought whoooooaaa! methinks this is too good to be true ”tha dunt get owt for nowt these days”.Followed it up on the net and (so glad we did before committing ) discovered a right old scam going on!… It was good while it lasted though,we had £100,000 spent in minutes(on paper) mortgage paid,new motor home paid off world cruise etc etc. Thank god for this website.Stick together and we`ll beat these scamming pillocks ! Dated:13/12/2007
P.S we`ll stick to camelot in future!

received a letter today with similar wording informing me about a winning payment of 615810 euros. didn’t believe it so i googled it and found this website and info on wikipedia.
i live in zurich and i don’t know how they got my address and name.
i have a question: where do we report this? local bank? police station? or should we just ignore it?
thanks!

Hur kan man säkert veta att det handlar om scam?
Fanns det något epost adress eller länk till lott utdelare att verifiera. Är allt relaterad till international internet lottery scam eller fanns något riktigt också?

Donald’s question translated into English:
How can you be absolutely sure it is a scam?
Was there an e-mail address or link where you could verify your winnings? Is it all related to international internet lottery scam eller was there ever a real lottery too?

Just got my letter yesterday 615,810,00 i thought i was well onto a winner! Then i came back to reality. I DID’NT DO THE SPANISH LOTTERY!!! What a scam!! Pablo Garcia was my agent to contact and he gets 10% for acting on my behalf? WHY!! I would of picked the numbers so just send me the cheque no middle man needed!! Spanish stamp and envelope made me laugh and the photo copied said official letter these people should be made to pay!!!! Just glad that this website was about?

damn!!! this people they do not know what they are doing actually y they stol aal the mony of other peopels dont they have enough what god gave them i think they have enough and they most be thnx full of god we recieve this letter too we are a symple famlily with 5 persons when we recieve this letter we were shoked oh god thnx thank you verry much that you gave us a big gift we thought that our dreams wil come tru but when they asked to us that to give them 2,000 euro voor recieve this mony to our bank no but they asked again 2,000 and again and again we lost 12.000 euro we gave aaal what we had now we have nothing what we had we gave aal of them now i am scared how to pay al this bils of house but ALLAH (god) wil help us and i just want to say one thing peopels who got recieve this letter PLZ PLZ DONT BELEAVE THIS THIS IS JUST LYE THAT SPANISH PEOPELS ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE TIHS MONY TO YOU NEVER!!! THEY JUST TAKE THIS MONY OF YOU SO BE CARE FULL OF (ELGORDO)LOTTRY MAY GOD HELP ME TO CATCH THIS PEOPELS PLZ HELP YOUR FRIENDS WHEN THE GOT THIS PAPER

615.810 EUROS HAHAH BUL SHIT DO NOT BELEAVE THIS

Hi, just wanted to say thank you for this site. I live in france and I got the famous letter today!!! Thanks again!!

I have received the same kind of letter just yerterday, My contact person instead is a MR.LUKE J CARLOS in Spain… when i read the email i knew it was a scam, cos i couldnt believe i could have won € 750.000.00 for something i have never done!… but i gotta admit that when reading this email, you’re really tempted and you mind start making calculations, creating dreams of your lives and what you will do with this huge amount of money….. that’s why i’d say that these people have guts to do this.. but rest assured my fellow victims, cos the famous word, ‘what goes around comes around’ is very true, and that’s all i can say now to those senseless and headless people!…..

Thank you for this web site because my father received the same letter on friday, addressed on his aunt who died a year ago. We live in Croatia, never been in Spain so naturally I was suspicious.

hi there ive just recieved a letter telling me ive won 815.950 euros on the primitiva lottery , now i go to spain a lot my brother lives in gandia, and i dont do lotteries i stand more chance of being struck by lightning and i dont like being scammed,
if you get a letter from antonio garcia peral send it the gardia in madrid.

Send all this leters to Interpol.
This is whit-collor Criminality.

Hi! But can anyone, please, tell me what to think if I receive this kind of letter with the following request to send money for bank fee – BUT my husband who has passed away really DID receive invitation by mail to take part in this lottery about a year or more ago and he DID. And now there is this notification about winnings AND they also sent what they say is his ticket with the right numbers ( I do not know what numbers my husband marked there ). I read in Wikipedia that actually La Primitiva Lottery is a legal thing, but all this with these letters asking for money is a scam. AND – cheking in La Primitiva Lottery publications in internet( L.A.E. – Loterias y Apuestas del Estado – Result ) I saw the exact numbers that are on their resent ticket !!
and the winning lump sum was the same I was announced. Is everything scam alltogether or just the letter ???? I am confused.

i recieved a letter thid morning! straight away i thiought wat a load of shit..yh ive been 2 spain loads of times but dont remember doing da lottery…so i thought id ring da number…and there it was a nigeria man with no telephone manner! telling me ive won 4million euro,s….

alex gomez:) was his name!
from bilbao seguros s.l.

so i told him im not tht stupid!
wat a bunch of low-life,s…..

Tout comme mes chers cammarades, j’ai egalement reçu cette lettre il y 2 jours. Ce qui m’a intrigué, c’est le fait que il y avait dans ce courrier des elements (logo , photos…..) tres mal imprimés!!!… ce qui n’est pas tes serieux pour une prétendue ”banque”. Ainsi je témoigne au nom d’autres personnes un peu plus naïves qui seraient susceptibles de se faire avoir.
Surtout ne donner pas vos coordonnées banquaires , c’est pour eux le moyen de détourner vos fonds propres… bon courage a toutes et a tous. Votre Justicier !!

I just received a letter in the post from Malaga. It was addressed with my full name, even with the un-intentional mis-spelling by my parents of my middle name! They could only have that information if I wrote my full name somewhere on one of my many trips to Spain and that paper was passed on to someone unscrupulous.

In the back of my mind, however, I do wonder if someone somewhere is claiming all our ‘winnings’ instead of us! I don’t for a minute believe that to be the case!

Thank you for keeping this site up and running as this was the first place that came up when I googled ”La Primitiva.” This information has saved me a lot of time, and clearly a lot of my own money too.

Guess my shredder will be fed today !

I also received a letter like this when I came back home today, that told me I won 615,810.00 euro by the EL GORDO LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAMME held on the 30th FEB 2008,ahaha, what a boloney!! But I wondered that how this scammer to get my name and home address ? That tell us we must be carful when we visit some websits, and when they ask for login ,do never give your bank account to nonbody, and check before you do anything stupid…Thanks very much for this sit !!!

OFFIZIELLE GEWINNBENACHRITIGUNG
Plaza Romano N°19 Planta 5
28011 Madrid, Spain.
(ÜBERSETZTE KOPIE)

VON SITZ DES VIZE PRASIDENTEN
REFERENZNUMMER: ILC 25456009 NM
BEARBEITUNGSNUMMER: 8800133/IPD/08

ATTNENTION: NUTZNIESSER
OFFIZIELLE GEWINNBENACHRITIGUNG

Hiermit informieren wir Sie uber das Ergebnis der SUPER SORTEO LOTTERY/INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME, die am 23.APRIL 2008 stattgefunden hat. Da die Nummern und Adressen vertauscht wurden, sind die am 30-APRIL. 2008 freigegeben worden. Die auf ihrem Namen stehende Ticketnummer 031-1127-841 mit der Seriennummer 3214-09 hat die Glucksnummern 09-22-37-39-41-49 2-7 gezogen, mit der sie folglich die Lotterie in der dritten Kategorie gewonnen haben. Somit wird ihnen die Pauschalsumme von €615.810,00 (SECHS HUNDERT UND FUNFZEHN TAUSEND, ACHTHUNDERT UND ZEHN EURO) in bar gut geschrieben fur die dantei mit der Referenznummer ILC 25456009 NM und Bearbeitungsnummer: 8800133/IPD/08. Dies stammt aus dem gesemten Geld preis von €7.640.610,00 (SIEBEN MILLIONEN SECHSHUNDERTVIERZIG TAUSEND SECHSHUNDERTZEHN EURO) die international unter den Gewinnem dieser Kategorie verteilt warden. HERZLICHEN GLUCKWUNSCH!!!!

Ihr Kapital befindet sich im Augenblick in Verwahrung bei der Versicherungsgesellschaft und ist auf ihrem namen versichert. Da einige Nummern und Namen vertauscht wurden, bitten wir sie diesen Preis nicht der Offentlichkeit mitzuteilen bis Ihr Anspruch bearbeitet und das Geld auf Ihr Konto uberwiesen worden ist, da es unserem Scherheitsprotokoll entspricht, um eine zweifache Forderung zu vermeiden,oder auch dass Teilnehmer dieses Programm unberechtigt ausnutzen, so wie es in der Vergangenheit schon vorgekommen ist. Alle Teilnehmer sind von einem Rechnerwahlsystem aus 19.000 Namen aus Asien, Australien, Neuseeland, Europa, Amerika, Afrika und Nordamerika gezogen, die an unserem internationalen Promotionsprogramme teilnehmen. Wir hoffen, dass sie mit einem Teil ihres Preises an unserer internationalen Lotterie 2008 am Ende des Jahres mit dem hohen Einsatz von € 1.4 Billionen teilnehmen.

Um Ihren lottoanspruch zu beantragen, nehmen sie mit Ihrem Antragsvertreter JOSE R.WILLIAMS, Auslandskoordinationsmanager von CENTROL FINANCE HOUSE S.A. ESPAÑA mit Tel: 0034 680 804 639, Fax: 00 34-940-467-002,EMAIL:infocentrolss@aim.com : Kontakt auf zur Verarbeitung und Uberweisung Ihrer Geldpramie auf die von Ihnem angewiesene Bestimmung. Vergessen Sie nicht,dass alle Geldpreise vor dem 30 MAI. 2008 beantrgt werden mussen. Nach diesem Tag wird das Kapital dem MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y HACIENDA als nicht beantragt zuruckgesendet. Hiermit wird Ihnen ausserdem mitgeteilt, dass 5% ihres Lottogewinns der CENTROL FINANCE HOUSE S.A. ESPAÑA zukommt, da sie Ihren Namen fur dieses ziehung eingetragen hat und Ihr Antragsvertreter ist. Die 5% warden uberwiesen, nachdem Sie den Gewinn in Ihrem Land erhalten haben, denn das Geld ist auf Ihren Namen versichert. Der Empfanger ist fur die Uberweisungsgebuhr des Gewinns in seinem/ihrem Land zustandig.
ANMERKUNG: Nicht notwendiges zu vermeiden verzögert und Komplikationen, erinnern bitte sich Ihren Hinweis und Bearbeitungsnummern zu veranschlagen, die oben in jedem Ihrer Korrespondenz mit Ihrem Regulierer versehen werden. Sie sollen die Details unten zur Verfügung stellen, um der Geschwindigkeit Auswertung und der Verarbeitung Ihrer winnings zu ermöglichen. wir Rat, dem Sie ausschließlich ihre Verfahren befolgen, um jede Disqualifikationen und folgende Annullierung zu vermeiden. 1.volle Namen: 2. Ihre volle Ausgangs-/Büroadresse: 3. Direkte telephone/fax Zahlen: 4. Alter: 5: Besetzung die oben genannten Detailinformationen ist absolut notwendig, um in Ihren Ansprüchen einzuordnen. Glückwünsche noch einmal von allem Stab von (ONLINEMICRO-SOFT SUPERSORTEO-LOTTERY INTERNATIONALE PROGRAMME) herzlichst Ihrem, Mrs Romas F Anna. Merken Sie bitte gewinnende alle muß innerhalb 3 Wochen nach diese Nachricht behauptet werden. Glückwünsche noch einmal N.B. Any Bruch der Vertraulichkeit von seiten der Sieger resultiert zur Disqualifikation. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-mail Adresse. Treten Sie mit Ihrem Regulierer @ infocentrolss@aim.com in Verbindung

I live in the Netherlands and i have also recieved a letter like yours..
In German. I even talked r. williams on the phone. He was short of text but told me to mail and he would reply as soon as possible. So i did with a little risk, but we will see.

I keep you all posted with wat will happen next…

I think we should have more info to get these guys… so i will try to get some more. 🙂

Hy,
I live in France and I got the lettert today. It says that I won 615.810euros at the ”loteria del estado”. I wanted to see if people knew about this scheme on the web and I found your site. I decided to submit a comment in order for you guys to see that the trick goes on.
Watch out!

Hi,
thanks for this website. Also received a snail mail telling me I ”won” 615,810 Euros in a lottery I never played and have never been to Spain either.
Amazing how long scums like this can go on for …

From: kathryn smith (kathrynsmith@web.de)
Sent: May 14, 2008 5:57:24 AM

Sir/Madam,
We wish to congratulate you over your email address success in our computer balloting sweepstake.with Microsoft Award And LA Primitiva Lottery España You have won the sum of 2,500, 000:00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros) in cash credited to file with REFERENCE NUMBER ESP/1245/114L/LOP WINNING NUMBER : 5-11-13-34-35-40 LUCKY NUMBERS : 01-234-45 SERIAL NUMBERS : UNI001/434 BATCH NUMBERS : TRW/1290/556/WE
To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed agent below as soon as possible for the immediate release of your winnings with your full below details.
1) Your Full Name: _________
2) Your Telephone Number:__________
3) Your Mobile Number:________
LYCATAAL CONSULT SA
MR.RONLAND JOHNSON
TEL: +34 664 849 609
Email: securitdagentsa@gmail.com
Congratulations once again from all our staff.
Kathryn Smith
Secretary
LA Primitiva

Hi everyone, we are talking about professional criminals. The first posting is Jan 25th 2007. I’m writting on may 15th 2008 (over a year) and these people have not be found yet by the police.
I received a very-well-done-letter yestarday telling me I won €785.510 in Lotería internacional de España.
I have no idea where they got our addresses from, but one thing is sure… there are lots of people involved (hotels for example)
Thanks NIKKE to have such a web site!!!
I hope (as you all) that these criminal are soon behind the bars for a long time!

I have just received a letter from La Primitiva International S.L stating that I have won 1,350,000 Euros….letter looked official, sounded good….has a Spanish stamp on it and an address: C/ Serrano no 31, Planta 12A, 28204 Madrid-Spain…From the desk of the Vice President International Promotion/Prize Draw Dept…and a telephone number: 00 34 634 020 100 and two contact names Frank Lopez and Quincy Seguros 00 34 655 409 780 ….quincysrguros33@gmail.com…..
There was no claim form or request for money…just these contact details and a statement saying that I would need to claim the award in Madrid by July 30th 2008. To start the claim process I am supposed to call Quicy Seguros…it also states that the aforementioned will receive 5% of the award onky after it has been paid into my nominated account….but after reading the many entries here,,,it would seem to be a new spin on an old scam!!

Hi Ine. Just to let you know that i also stayed at an all inclusive resort in Mexico about 18 months ago and have received a letter from El Gordo spanish sweepstake lottery today. The Hotel is owned by a spanish group. So glad that i have checked out this website and read your comments. Many Thanks

Hi,

I just received such lotto info into my email account.

I want to tell you, not only Europa, US, Mid-East Asia… but also South America are the targets for this scam…

As I realized the mail came from Spain, I replied in spanish and tried to call the number that appeared in the scam email.

They had my name and my email info… Apparently, Primitiva and El Gordo are legal official lottos; That’s was my error, and so I believed the information was true.

They sent me again a .jpg form document file for submitting a personal information, but I fortunately never replied again.

Probably they’ll use my name as Contact Agent…

I sent to the police the scamming emails copies and now I know one of the emails from the scammer process. Is this :

inforsl@aim.com

Beware of this Email… Don’t accept nothing from it.

Thanks !!!

Thank you for this site. Ihad a from EL Gordo yesterday, thought i would check them out on the internet first. Found your site thank you for the information, keep up the good work.

Hi there, i received this same letter from Malaga yesterday. Clearly a scam. Never entered any lottery in Spain, frankly you’d have to be desperate or retarded to fall for this one.(i mean desperate enough to fool yourself into believing it.)

These people are scum and do not realise the impact this can have on people. My father received a La Primitiva letter saying he’d won 900,000 euro, my father has Parkinsons disease which often leads to him thinking that people are doing things behind his back and thats exactly what happened when my mother and myself tried to explain that this was a scam, he actually thought that we were trying to con him out of his money. Thank god for the people who write in to sites like this as this has allowed me to prove that it is a scam. These people need to be caught before more trusting people are caught out.

June 28 2008 10:00 am
I just got a letter allmost the same.I had to contact a claim agent DON PEDRO PEREZ ph 0034 654 215 930 fax 0034 991 031 776.
I live in New Zealand it is on the other side of the world and have never been to Spain.
The date in the photo on my letter was two days after the post mark on envalope.
These idiots cant be that bright.
I hope no one gets sucked in

My Wife receved two identical letters on the same day,exact wording as all that i have read on this site ,except for the amount of winnings,and costing 60euro cents each to send i gave a quick call to the No and was greated by a Chinese man with a slight Spanish accent trying to speack English to me. if it has cost me for the call of about 2mins the laugh was worth it,THANKS for your info on this site you have done me a big big favour.waiting for a call of them so i can give them some stick.
01/07/2008

Hey do u guys know anything about another scam, i’ve been getting this emails, where this person says he works for a banck and he has an account form a family that died in 2001 and that needs my help to transfer the money and i would get a % of the money. I oviesly knew it was a scam so i deleted it, but i keep getting the same emails over and over again.. What can i do so they can get cought?

Hallo!

Ich habe auch einen solchen Brief erhalten. Mir erschien es zunächst auch seriös zu sein, da Adresse und Telefonnummer mit angegeben war. Mal davon abgesehen, dass ich das Formular nie gefaxt, sondern per Post gesandt hätte, habe ich gedacht: schau doch mal im Internet, ob die Sache einen guten Leumund hat und siehe da: ein Betrug.
Gut, dass es diese Seite hier gibt.

thank god for the internet, it saved me the cost of a phone call to ‘DON OSCAR PANCHO’ thanks for keeping up this site guys!!

I received an AWARD NOTIFICATION today from LA PRIMITIVA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS PROGRAMME. It’s a cone, plain and simple and it still going on.

The award letter is a giveaway – it doesn’t even have your name on it, which tells you it’s a generic one sent out by the thousands.

My advise is to report it to the Spanish Embassy London 020 7235 5555

CrIsTy: There are lots of bank scams going around. Just check these:
http://www.lindqvist.com/en/about/iscams/bank-scams

i also got this award notification ,. and i think that only thing to do is call the police ,. they asking all personal information ,.- people dont give you information ,. i send a fax without the bank adress and mi bank acount number , then thei called me and required again all informatons ,.,. already everione knows that is a fake lotery,.,.,.

mi award was 1.000.000.00 € ,. im living in italy but im russian ,. how that bithes get mi adress ,. mi complete name , ? the person to contact was DR LUIS FERNANDEZ , if you get a letter like this , take it to a police dept,. thank for keepeng this site,.

I had received the same letter from them, that I won lottery an amount of 615,810 euro and I and my wife were thinking where they got my name and address so we were very amazed to see that and my heart was beating that time, because when I saw that amount of money I was chocked, so someting came to our mind to check Google whether it is true or not but, it was really fake lottery winning. Therefore, everyone must be carefully about those deceivers. Bank number, Passport and the rest.

Thanks.

All readers.

hi my dear friends:
in this mad world,where everyone thinks about his own advantage even by destroying world,people and faith, i’m so happy still there
are people who help.
I have also recieved an email from elgorodo…it seems real…i planned to buy a house with that emount of 1200000euros for my parents who have always suported me…i have thought it is the time i can do something for them…i was happy that God gave me the opportunity to do whatever i wished for them…i planned to give an amount of 250000euros to poor people i know.i was planing i can continue my education and i was praying to God all the time,i asked him save me and not let me go far from him…at the first email i have responsed to sender: so now what should i do to recieve my award….this was the first letter of this kind that i have rcieved…but then when they send me the second letter that was similaiar to your sample and seemed very official and real,they have asked me to send them filled form plus copy of my passport…i deided to check the name: elgorodo de la primitiva….so i find it here….thank you so much …you have’nt let me remainin my reveries a long time and thank you to inform people…if i can do anything to help to imprison staff of that company let me know….
good luck for you…i wish you all get your desired money by working hard and honest…

Hi I received a letter today in Sweden, with the same words as those a year ago. the contact person was Dr Daniel wilson. and it came from Mr Miguel Antonio, Promotions director. Thank you for your website.

obrigado, eu tambem recebi uma dessas cartas, que dizia que tinha ganho muinto dinheiro.mas quando a esmola e grande o pobre desconfia. foi então que dicidi procurar na net, e encontrei o vosso site.

i have been toled by dr.robert brook from your company i winning mony prize 787000 euro it is right and you need to 910 euro for confirmation for your notaris and transferes 910 euro to olsen pedersen aLSO that right?
please told me by my email quickly

I received this scam letter too. It arrived in a typed envelope with spanish stamp and included my middle initial, full address and postcode. How did they get all these details?? We rang and spoke to a Pablo Garcia who urged us to fax the form urgently (presumably to get the information before I realised what was happening…) Luckily, my estranged husband is extremely shrewd and on showing him the letter he immediately recognised it as a scam. What dreadful people they are, preying on people who may be vulnerable and in desperate need of funds. Thanks for this website – isn’t there some international ‘watchdog’ who can nail them??

i live in jamaica. i too have been prayed upon by these people. what was most disturbing to me was how much information they had. for me the dead give away was the logo. thats why i choose to google it. i was happy i did.

Hello , i live in Belgium and i got also this letter in my box. If everyting is true i dont have never have to go to my work because i am a millionaire since today !!!!
I find it scary how they become somuch information about me. So i google en i find this website and i see a lot of people are millionaire to !!!!

Hi there its thursday 11th December 2008, im sat infront of my computer shaking my head in disbelief that i nearly got suckered in by these conmen. I to received a similar letter to the various one’s described which detailed that i had won 825,039 euro’s. I even spoke with a man calling himself Don Juan Diego supposedly based in spain with the telephone number 0034 605 532 145. Anyway whilst talking to this guy i mind said that this guy is suppose to have a spanish accent instead his speech sounded african which i couldnt work out. To cut a long story short Mr D Diego informed me that i needed to pay 990 pounds beforemy check which had apparently been cleared could be released. This told me enougth that the whols thing was a scam and to make matters worse this joker honestly believes that im going to pay this money before releasing my so called check. I intendto contact the consumer watch dog to alert the british public concerning this scam