Legal Question in Banking Law in Netherlands

could you explain me about the follow email? Is it true?

Dear Mr.

We acknowledge the receipt of your form. However, after thorough verification and secrutiny of your information you have been found qualified to receive payment of the prize award of 1,500,000.00 Euros (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euros /SPAN). We wish to congratulate YOU formally on your success in our award program.

We shall proceed to conclude the payment process of your Lottery prize by opening for you a claim file.

Moreover, as an international winner, you are required to legalize all your winning documents in order to instruct the paying bank to credit your account with the sum of 1,500,000.00 Euros

Therefore, we advise that you come to the Netherlands OR contact our accredited attorney to act on your behalf in handling the Legal details for the following procedure:

1) LEGALIZATION OF YOUR DOCUMENTS.

2) ENDORSEMENT AND STAMP DUTY.

To this end, the endorsement date has been scheduled for 30th October 2006.

De Boelelaan 105,1070 LK,

Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Email:[email protected]

[email protected]

Tel: +31-620-874-102 /SPAN

Fax: +31-847-366-759

Ensure you forward the file reference number to enable the lawyer identify your file for le


Asked on 10/27/06, 1:43 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
erik van rossem van rossem advocaten

Re: could you explain me about the follow email? Is it true?

I am sorry but this looks like a frequently used effort to try to cheat you out of a lot of money. So beware. I am afraid it is not true.

I can not read the complete mail you sent, but I have seen a lot of similar mails before. Normally they ask you for a deposit of a certain amount and then an other amount (generally more and more), etc.. In the end you end up paying a lot of money, but never seeying your "price". I have met people who travelled all the way to the Netherlands only to loose more money. However if you want to be sure and would like me to investigate this matter for you, you can contact me at my office number in Amsterdam (Van Rossem Lawyers (tel + 31 20 53 12 000), and or visit our website: www.vanrossem.nl)

Regards, Erik van Rossem

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Answered on 10/28/06, 4:32 pm


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