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  • Hey, I've won the lottery!

    Just received this exciting email today and my husband and I are no longer "wandering" as opposed to "wondering" why I am so lucky to receive all these British pounds....can't stay on-line too much longer, I need to find my bat phone and call my bosses and tell them of my good fortune and that the keys to my classroom door are in the driveway! LOL


    REF No:BNL-L/200-26937
    BATCH No:2005MJL-01
    TICKET No:20511465463-7644
    SERIAL No:S/N-00168
    LUCKY No: 887-13-865-37-10-83

    This is to inform your E-mail have been selected for a cash prize of £1,000,000.00 (British Pounds) held in London UK. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system(ess) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected.

    Most winners wanders how they won, without entering for the lottery program, winners do not need to register this lottery, its a program conducted by use of email balloting, this means that your email was selected as one of the lucky emails that has been approved to claim the said amount through your appointed claims agent.


    Please contact our claims agent;
    Mr. Terry ________ (Claim Dept Director)


    Provide him with the information below:
    1. Full Name:
    2. Full Address:
    3. Marital Status:
    4. Occupation:
    5. Age:
    6. Sex:
    7. Nationality:
    8. Country Of Residence:
    9. Telephone Number:

    Sincerely,
    Dr. Mrs. Katherine __________________________
    British National Lotto Company[/I]

  • #2
    OK, it's me again and there's more good news in my email: two more people have written me wanting to give me even more money...both are from England. One is from a gal dying with no kids and the other is from someone who is willing to share someone's estate 60-40 with me. I get the 40. I can be generous...with all the millions I'm getting. Seriously, is this ridiculous or what?????

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    • #3
      You would think hey would come up with something a little more original.

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      • #4
        ...or readable. Spell check anyone?

        Just make sure that when you call them, you also have your SSN ready for ID verification, your checking acct # for electronic deposit, and you may need a credit card number available to pay a processing fee. It's totally standard, don't worry! Just give them all of your sensitive information, and they'll take it from there (and your identity to boot).

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        • #5
          I get those e mails every week!

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          • #6
            i remember when 20/20 did a special years ago, where they hunted down the guy who was sending out an email like this and he was saying he was some sort of "prince" but he was really this 20 year old slacker who lived in his mom's basement.

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            • #7
              Chelsea Clinton's father-in-law just got out of prison a couple of years ago for scamming people in a multi-million dollar Nigerian mail swindle.

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              • #8
                I receive one of those once a week or at least a couple times a month. It screams a scam, but people fall for it!

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                • #9
                  Well it has to be official... it's signed by a Dr. Mrs.

                  Everyone knows that female doctors have to have both. Must be legit!

                  Or maybe they didn't want you to be confused thinking it was a Dr. Mr. Katherine. Yeah. That must be it.

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                  • #10
                    Buahah got to love spam!

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                    • #11
                      I can't believe people still do this... and others still fall for this XD

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                      • #12
                        Love the BS spam.

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                        • #13
                          darn it! They told me that I won it.....shoot.

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                          • #14
                            I once received a million euro in some electric lottery I didn't get..now I get all sorts of spam emails from the "UN" a prince from Nigeria, etc.

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