Mails Informing You Won Lottery

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PLUS LOTTO ONLINE DRAWS
201 Hanbury,
London E1 5HU

Dear Winner,
RE: NOTIFICATION OF WINNING.
EMAIL CODE: PLD15378

This email message is sent to inform you that your email address has been selected as a winner in the "Alpha Category" of the Plus Lotto Online Draw for a prize of One Million Pounds Sterling.
Send your reply to the fiduciary coordinator Desmond Warwick
Email: plusverification22@gmail.complusverification22@gmail.com> , for provision of your PCP2 form and due steps to be taken for the processing and remittance of your prize.
Congratulations,

Sanserivo Michelle
Promotion Secretary

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Have you ever received letters like this on your email? Sometimes this comes in the form of letter enjoining you to receive huge inheritance from a dead rich man, or woman who met tragic accidents and left no heirs to their wealth.

The money are legitimate. The mails are real. But the story on the mails are not. You will be tempted to do and correspond with the addressee. Imagine a one million pound sterling being transferred instantly to your bank account.

Believe it or not. Once I have been tempted to study the possibility of receiving money from source like this. In my case, it was a dead person's money whose account has not left a will of testament attached with it. Upon studying, I learned that cooperating with the bank sender may have me commit money laundering, and my contact bank embezzlement. Try to answer the emails and you will receive responses.

Bank embezzlement is committed when a bank employee who is handling an account of a person he or she personally knows acquired the wealth legally without having any legitimate rights to it. Sometimes, the rich persons left no one to transfer the funds to upon death, and the "escheat" laws of every country will require any banks to hand over those kind of wealth to the state treasury.

Money laundering on one hand is usually charged to the receiver of this legitimate money. In our country, money laundering has been done when an amount exceeding P500,000 pesos has been deposited to your bank account in one transaction day, whether it comes from a local or international bank source. Most money launderers set-up bank account in countries where the bank secrecy laws are very tight so that authorities would not easily have access to the records of bank account owners.


If you have plans to be a Robinhood, the receipt of the one million pound sterling above would not be easy. Even if the bank employee from that country can do the transfer smoothly, the prohibitions on the recipient's country can be strong.

While bank embezzlement can be levied by the embezzler by just returning the money acquired, money laundering on one hand is a criminal offense already and is punishable by imprisonment of 15 years to reclusion perpetua or life. Hence, you will see the willingness of your contact person from another country because they do not face criminal impediments as you as recipient can face back home. Usually, the laundered money came from UK, or Africa where governments are unstable, and is transferred to a developing country like the Philippines. Africa has funds from the blatant corruption of its abusive rulers from recently reformed governments. In some cases, I've read that there are some people killed in receiving these money.

Our Central bank has been monitoring money money laundering cases strictly especially after the terrorist attacks of September 11. Assumingly, the money used to fund terrorist bombings are transferred through EFT or electronic fund transfer so banks have been more strict.