Wow, I won the lottery (again)

ezdays

Out AZ way
Yep, me who has passed up so many opportunities to cash in on the riches from the desolate country of Nigeria, now seem to be able to win a lottery that I never entered into. Seems like these folks want to just send me almost £800,000, for no reason whatsoever. I suppose that they will require my bank account number and Social Security # to verify who I am, and probably a sizable sum in order to pre-pay the taxes and/or some other fees necessary to release these funds.

I usually don't even read these things, but I am entertained by the fact that they think people are so dumb that they would actually think they won something.
Dear Winner
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today, 29th of
October 2007, of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO
PROGRAMME, held on the 4th of October, 2007.Your e-mail address
attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02
drew
the lucky numbers:01-14-21-3-35-48, and a bonus number of 24 which
subsequently won you the lottery in the second category.You have
therefore
been approved to claim a total sum of £753,437.00 in cash credited to
KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £7,534,370.00
shared
amongst the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.

All participants of this online promotion programme were selected
randomly
from numerous World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and
extracted from close to 125,000 unions.Your assigned claims agent will
immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your
funds
as soon as you contact him via electronic mail(email).

PROCEDURES FOR CLAIMS
NON UK RESIDENT WINNERS ARE HOWEVER REQUESTED TO CONTACT THEFIDUCIARY
AGENT ATTACHED TO DRAW ASAP UK LOTTERY{CLAIMS DEPT}

FIDUCIARY AGENT:Mrs Vanessa White Scott
EMAIL: vscottwhite@hotmail.com


VERIFICATION FORM
TO AUTHENTICATE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS FROM YOUR WEBMAIL
PROVIDER AND RECORD PURPOSES,WE DO REQUIRE YOU TO SEND
THESE INFORMATION TO US ASAP
FULL NAME...............................................
WINNING E-MAIL ADDRESS..................................
FULL ADDRESS:...........................................
SEX:................................
AGE...................................
OCCUPATION.............................
TEL.......................MOBILE................
COUNTRY................................

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.
 

ezdays

Out AZ way
Sadly, people do believe these things and freely hand over private information.
Yeah, they try, like the Nigerian scheme, to try to make it believable, but unlike that scheme, they never say who is putting up the 7.5 mil prize money.... Common sense says there's a flaw here in that you won a lottery that didn't cost anyone anything to enter, so some unknown individual or company, or country is fronting the money.... but why????:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
 

jesso

Member
ezdays,
Congratulations!
balloon6
Guess what!?! My wife and I won the same one as well! Should we all travel together over there to pick up our winnings? :p
 

CNWman

CNW Fan
Hey, doesn't that E-mail say that was the final anouncement on last tuesday? Besides that, I can't believe that people actualy fall for this kinda thing. People, there's a reason Nintendo created Luigi's Mansion! (for those of you who haven't played it, you won't get the joke)
 

MasonJar

It's not rocket surgery
I like how they use the big words (like fiduciary ;)), and that an organization as prestigious as the UK National Lottery Online Promo Programme has to give their staff hotmail accounts hamr

I heard of one guy who would dutifully send all these things back, filled out in full, but for the contact information, he used the FBI fraud investigation unit.... ;) :D

Andrew
 

ezdays

Out AZ way
...Guess what!?! My wife and I won the same one as well! Should we all travel together over there to pick up our winnings? :p
I would, but my passport isn't up to date. Besides, I think if I send them enough money and give them my bank account #, they'll just go ahead and send me the money.:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

I like how they use the big words (like fiduciary ;)), and that an organization as prestigious as the UK National Lottery Online Promo Programme has to give their staff hotmail accounts
...
Andrew, you also notice tha her name changes from Scott-White, to whitescott in her email address...:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 

eightyeightfan1

Now I'm AMP'd
I heard of one guy who would dutifully send all these things back, filled out in full, but for the contact information, he used the FBI fraud investigation unit.... ;) :D

Andrew

I do that too..But I say I'm going through a nasty divorce and don't want my ex knowing I won...Then I give them the snail mail address to a fake FBI agent in the Internet Scam department to the address (which is real) of the local FBI office.

Sgt. Jake got the same address.

You don't know how much of them letters I don't get after that.
 

rlundy90

New Member
Wow, I can't believe this. Three winners from the same forum.What a coincidence. That must be a record of some sort. I didn't even enter and I still won. Gotta go and tell all my friends. I'm so excited!!!!!
 

ezdays

Out AZ way
Well, they do say there was ten winners,:cool: I still might ask them where the 7.5 mil came from. Some generous benefactor no doubt.:twisted: :twisted:
 

60103

Pooh Bah
I've always said that you have about the same probability of winning the lottery, whether you buy a ticket or not (to 6 decimal places). Now it looks as if you have a better chance if you don't buy a ticket.
 

jeffrey-wimberl

Active Member
Anybody who believes those things has coconuts for brains and is about as hard-headed. I'm usually somewhat forgiving of peoples faults but I have no sympathy for stupidity and no tolerance for dishonesty.
 

ezdays

Out AZ way
Anybody who believes those things has coconuts for brains and is about as hard-headed. I'm usually somewhat forgiving of peoples faults but I have no sympathy for stupidity and no tolerance for dishonesty.
Ah yes, good point. Anyone that wants to get something for nothing, be it the Nigeria scam or winning a lottery they never entered or even getting paid for forwarding emails.... well, they are not honest and honorable folks. Yeah, there are those that aren't too up on the ways of the world and don't recognize these schemes, but it's still the tiny (or large) bit of dishonesty in their hearts to get something for nothing that attracts them to these scams and has them parting ways with some of their cash instead.
 

Jac's Lines

Member
Awhile back I found this website on the Nigerian 421 scams:

Nigerian Scam 419 Correspondence

This guy plays with the scammers and tries to see how far he can string them along with absolutely idiotic information. My favorite is the Kolawole correspondence, where in response to the scammer's repeated demands for personal information he sends a fake scan of a driver's license with a picture of Larry from the Three Stooges.

Some of these are pretty funny reads/time wasters.
 

CNWman

CNW Fan
That's just plain funny to me how these scamers just fall for tricks even more obious then theirs. This one, however, is possibly the most unbelievable at all: Scam o Rama
 

ezdays

Out AZ way
A documentary the other day featured a guy who replies to these scams.
He delights in teasing the culprits by planning lengthy and detailed meetings and secret rendezvous', and providing fake bank contacts around the world under all kinds of pseudonyms.

The greedy criminals fall for many of his deceptions and apparently go to great lengths to pick up the checks and notes he says he has deposited with Mr. Cheetem at the Bank Of Tookem.
Oh yeah, I remember him. He used to work for the law firm, Dewey, Cheetem and Howe...:eek:
 

ukon30fan

0n30 Rail Baron of Leeds
Just out of interest, that sequence of numbers hasn't won anything in the last 180 days ( Time limit for claiming a win!)
 
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