I have recieved dozens of new lottery scam emails in the last week, but have not posted any. I was begining to think that people were finaly waking up and realizing that they could not win a lottery that did not exist and that they did not enter... That is, until I got this email today:
"I RECIEVED AN EMAIL FROM AUSTRALIAN LOTTERY ONLINE INFORMING ME I WON $
650.000 US DOLLARS,ON DECEMBER /06 , REF: AUL-474061725/06. hOW CAN I
CONFIRM IF IT IS TRUE OR FALSE?"
I responded:
"Did you buy an Australian Lottery Ticket?"
Their response...
"Good afternoon.
No, I did not buy any ticket. It is suppose that I won buy sorting email addresses."
Sigh..... Sad that people are so gullible and stupid. But this is why idiots like the following one, can continue to make money. It is called GREED and STUPIDITY. How do you win a lottery that you never entered???
The National Lottery
PO Box 1010
Liverpool L70 1NL United Kingdom.
Ref: XYL /26510460037/05
Batch: 24/00319/IPD
ONLINE NOTIFICATION OF WINNING
Europe/America private international e-games organizers and
co-sponsors,UK National Lottery, officially bring to your notice the
final draw result of NOV 2006 UK National Lottery-wheel E-game which
was conducted at our international corporate office complex in The
United Kingdom,You have
therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £1,000 000 (One
Million Pounds Sterlings)CONGRATULATIONS
Contact your fiduciary agent below for claims process.
Dr. Pinkett Brown
Email: informationdept11@yahoo.co.uk
TELL: +44-701-115-2474.
Fill claims form
First name:...
Middle name:..
Last name:...
Date of birth:..
Gender:...
Occupation:..
phone:...
Address:..
Country:...
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Mariam Wilcox
Executive (International Sweepstakes).
Then you have this brilliant Scam Monkey:
DRAFT IS READY
Compliment,
How are you doing. Hope you have not forgotten me, I am Mr.Martins Bello, the man from Nigeria who contacted you some time ago to assist me secure the release of some money accrued from the over invoicing of a contract/inheritance that was awarded by my government some time ago
during the militry regime.
Though you were not able to asist me conclude the transaction, I'm happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transffered under the assistance and cooperation of a new partner from Brazil.Presently i'm in London for investment projects with my own share of the total sum.
meanwhile, i didn't forget your past efforts and attempts to assit me in transffering those funds, I made sure you are not left out the benefit of the transaction hence I kept aside for you sum of One Million United State Dollar($ 3,000,000.00)draft.I and my new partner agreed to
compensate you with that amount for all your past efforts and attempts to assist me in this matter.
I appreciated your efforts at that time very much,so feel free and get in touch with my secretary Mr.John Eze and instruct him on how to send the Bank draft to you. Please do let me know immediately you receive the Draft so that we can share the joy together after all the sufferness at that time. In the moment, i'm very busy here because of the
investment projects which me and my partner are having at hand, finally,remember that i had left instruction to my secretary so as soon as you contact him, he will send the Draft to you,so feel free to get intouch with MY SECETARY NOW.
Below is the contact of my secetary:
Mr.John Eze
E-mail:johneze_03@yahoo.com.au
With best regards,
Mr.Martins Bello.
Notice he positions the email like we have actually had a conversation in the past, yet he does not address me by name. How many people are going to fall for this one?
Posted by David A at January 26, 2007 04:27 PM
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Comments
P.T. Barnum's comments on a sucker born every minute were basically right. They were just a little low on the frequency.
Posted by: nedludd at January 26, 2007 06:19 PM
My grandpa got a letter in the mai saying he won the lottery and all they want him to do is fax in a paper got any of those
Posted by: angie at February 5, 2007 05:43 PM
I have submitted my info to one of the lottery scams online before I found out that it was a scam. What do I do now? How can I make sure that they don't get away with identification fraud using my name? Help me please!!!!
Posted by: Holland Salomon at October 8, 2007 01:17 PM
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