angry_chuck
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Thu Nov-30-06 07:26 PM
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What a load of sh*t. The whole thing is littered with spelling errors and is a very sad scheme indeed.
YOU HAVE WON THE YAHOO/MSN INC AND THE MICROSOFT WINDOWS LOTTERY OF £500,000.00 From: YAHOO / MSN LOTTERY <fallbrookgirl@adelphia.net> To: Date: Yesterday 21.11.09 Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation Baley House, Har Road Sutton, Greater London SM1 4te United Kingdom
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of(£500,000) FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITAIN POUNDS STERLINGS for the month of NOVEMBER 2006 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE. YAHOO/ MSN AND MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize was won.Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited. These are your identification numbers: Batch number.....................YM 09102XN Reff number.......................YM35447XN Winning number...................YM09788 These numbers fall within your Location file,you are requested to contact EVENTS AGENT MANAGER,send your winning identification numbers to them at this contact address below. (CONTACT EVENTS AGENT MANAGER) Mr.Peter Davidson EMAIL:windows04_boardagents@yahoo.com
You are therefore advised to send the following information to the EVENTS AGENT Manager for him to process your wins. 1. Full name.............. 2. Sex.............. 3. Country................ 4. State............. 5. Contact Address........ 6. Telephone Number....... 7. Marital Status......... 8. Occupation............. 9. Age.................... 10.Nest Of Kin.......... 11.Zip Code............. Congratulations once again. Dr. Samson Bent (Lottery Co-ordinator)
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Liberal In Texas
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Thu Nov-30-06 07:33 PM
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1. I get 1 or 2 of these every day. They're Nigerian scams, or 419 schemes. |
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Sometimes the English is so bad (even purporting to be for some agency in the British gov't.), they're hilarious. I used to collect them as curiosities. Now I bounce them. Fun site about 419 scams: http://www.419eater.com/html/419faq.htm
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CurtEastPoint
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Thu Nov-30-06 07:36 PM
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2. LOL! NEST of kin? What are they? Birds? n/t |
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Thu Nov-30-06 07:38 PM
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Do they think you're a bird? :rofl:
Anyway, yes, what a scam. If you so much as responded they'd tell you that they need your bank account number in order to directly deposit your winnings...and that's all she wrote.
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Art_from_Ark
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Thu Nov-30-06 07:48 PM
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4. The Lottery "Incoperation" |
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"POUNDS STERLINGS"
"Nest of kin"
:rofl:
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Thu Nov-30-06 08:01 PM
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5. I get many of these per week plus scam job offers (the Nigerian scam) |
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