I've won the Lottery!

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I\'ve won the Lottery!

THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD.
W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM.
REFERENCE NUMBER:xxxxxxxxx
BATCH NUMBER:xxxxxxx

You have been approved to claim a total sum of £552,000,00 (Five
hundred and fifty-two thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to
file xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To file for your claim and more Information,contact our fiduciary agent
Elizabeth Walter (Mrs)
Email: prizeclaimsoff1@yahoo.co.uk
You are required to provide her with
the information bel
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Problem is that I don't remember participating in it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Re: I\'ve won the Lottery!

I also have 270,000,000 Nigerian Naira waiting for me in a foreign bank account according to some guy called George AgdaAgdaGwengo.

Im too lazy to claim them myself but you are quite welcome to the money.

It is perfectly innocent sir. Perfectly innocent. They are waiting to wire you the monies.
 
Re: I\'ve won the Lottery!

That's funny, I win the that one quite often.

The clue is the yahoo email address.

I think even Camelot, the National Lottery operators, can afford a domain of their own.
 
Re: I\'ve won the Lottery!

Dear Sir,

You have been awarded a knighthood, and have been asked to attend a ceremony at Buck palace next week.
Please forward payment of £199 to cover the administrative expenses in the meantime.

Yours regally, Queen Elizabeth II

p.s. you could always forward your bank details to me @ liz.windsor@hotmail.com.

laters. Liz.

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Re: I\'ve won the Lottery!

You should read "Greetings in Jesus Name" - NOT a religious tract, but a hilarious account of "scambaiting" - getting the e-mail scammers back at their own game!
 
Re: I\'ve won the Lottery!

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Do these idiots have nothing else to do? Its a CRAZY world!

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They aren't doing nothing. They are working very hard trying to get Arthur to believe he has won the lottery, but before he can get his millions, he has to pay an administration charge. Apparently many people do pay up, so 'doing nothing' makes the scammers very rich.

On the Today Programme last week, they announced that the data protection people are to start a major campaign of awareness on these scams, although I believe that if some people actually read a newspaper occasionally, they would be a bit more streetwise. On the programme they mentioned that one man was on so many 'idiot' lists, he used his entire chequebook in one week.
 
Re: I\'ve won the Lottery!

A bit like the person (guess the gender and hair-colour!) who complained about the ITV gameshow phone-in scam, saying: "I've spent over a thousand quid, and never got through once. Now they say it was rigged: it makes me look like an idiot."
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A bit like the person (guess the gender and hair-colour!) who complained about the ITV gameshow phone-in scam, saying: "I've spent over a thousand quid, and never got through once. Now they say it was rigged: it makes me look like an idiot."
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Unfortunately, the 'idiot' mentioned on the programme was a vulnerable old man.
 
Re: I\'ve won the Lottery!

I think we may have seen different news reports: this was a comment from a young blonde from Essex, on the local Anglia news. And the word "idiot" was her own, not mine.
 
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