Euro Lottery Email Sweepstakes

is this email is true?

E.A.A.S Lottery Headquarters,
Euro – Afro Asia Sweepstakes Lottery Inc.
Customer Service, 580 N.Tenth Street,
Sacramento, CA 85914,
Telephone : +31 644 562 861.
An Affiliate of Charity International.
Arena Complex Km 18 Route de Rufisque,
I.P.P Award Department,
Amsterdam Holland.

Dear Sir / Madam,

We happily announce to you the draw of 2006 Euro-Afro Asia Sweepstakes Lottery International Program held on Monday 5th of February, 2007 in Amsterdam Holland.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 0000000with serial number: 000000, and draw lucky number: 00000000which subsequently won you lottery in the 2nd category of file number:00000000. Batch Number: 00000 , Reference Number: 00000000, You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$250,000.00 ( Two hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) in Cheque.

All participants in this lottery program were selected randomly through a computer ballot system, d

This email is a lie.

A lottery scam is a variant of advance fee fraud (also know as a 419 scam). First, you (and thousands of other people) get a spam message stating that you could get millions of dollars — in this case, because you won the lottery. If you believe the scammer and reply, he will charge you a fee before your winnings can get to you: this may be for having some documents notarized, or to pay the courier who’s bringing your check, or to open a bank account, or international taxes, or any number of made-up excuses.

You can tell these are email lotteries are fake because:
(1) You can’t win a lottery if you didn’t enter (i.e. buy a ticket)
(2) There is no such thing as a lottery of email addresses.
(3) There is no such thing as an “international lottery”, and in fact most countries have laws prohibiting their citizens from entering lotteries in other countries.

See the following links for more information about lottery scams in general…