We've been promised things before
but this has an air of authenticity about it don't you think?
"Dear Lucky Winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION!!!
The Microsoft company successfully organised a promotion, over 100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) was earmarked for the Draws. Winners were randomly selected a from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage. computer draw system was used for selection attaching email addresses to ticket numbers. E-mail Address : attached to ticket 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you 1,000, 000.00 (One Million Great Britain Pounds) DATE:9/APRIL/2007 DRAW NUM: 1 It was held in London (UK) the claims agent assigned to you to, for the release of your prize
Mr. Garry Jolly
Head Winning Claims Dept.
Email:claiims.mic2@yahoo.com.hk
+44 7045710478
Sincerely,
MORGAN RICHARS.
Head Customer care Service "
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Anyone with a name like Jolly must be authentic.
..didn't he used be at Readers Digest?
Yeah right!
I suppose that people must still be falling for this line in fraud, otherwise they'd stop sending out the 'Winner' e-mails. Amazing.
But how are you going to retrieve a million pounds from their Draws and store them in your Draws? Are they wearing clean Draws? You'd have to wear long johns for the extra capacity. Or incontinence knickers, you can pour a lot of liquidity into those before they leak. (So I'm told).
I'm also tempted to comment on the standard of English Language, spelling, capitalisation, verb conjugation and grammar, but on reflection they've probably passed the GCSE. 1/10, see me.
Si.
Giggle, Simon. 100 lines, do you think?
Well, I always believe anything with the word Micro$oft in it, so fine by me!
It contains the words:
The Microsoft company successfully organised . . . and you think it sounds AUTHENTIC?!?
How do you manage to sound so intelligent whilst presenting the PM programme?
H.
...oh ye of little faith, i had one of these back in March. i replied and gave them all the details they needed:-
account, sort code, pin, passport number & driving lic details and they sent a lovelly reply saying the money would be in my account at the end of May......not long now and i can sail off into the sunset
Regular froggers may recall, with a wistful air, the SEPTEMBER PROBLEM. So that I could be notified of the blog misbehaving and returning to September, I set up a special email address. (Many thanks those who used it for the correct reasons!)
Since that email address opened on April 5th, I have had more than 100 scam emails. Some tell me that I've been specially selected to help spirit £23,000,000 out of an unclaimed bank account, usually in Burkina Faso; others tell me I've won a freee BMW; still others tell me I've won lotteries I've not entered.
It's dispiriting to know that someone out there will fall for one of these and end up out of pocket.
Oh, Marc, but wouldn't it have been nice if you really HAD won that BMW?
Marc - are you sure it's not Roger Sawyer sending you all that spam? He has got form in the spoof email department, I believe...
Marc (7),
My mother gets loads of scam letters (she's too old for emails) per week, and I spend more time than I care to think of pursuading her that they are all scams. At least, mostly, she waits for my next visit before responding (but in one recent case she did not). OK, she's old (80), and remarkably innocent even for one of age of the goodness of man. I recently let her reply to a R**d*rs D*g*st one since she receives the things anyway (and did not need a £20 "release fee"), but that was just to prove to her that they *are* all scams, i.e. she has not won, as they implied she had.
*We* may all be savvy, but for various reasons, a lot of the population fall for such scams. The elderly, especially if poor, are at great danger of falling for such things, even when they are claimed to be for - say, £15k, or £100k, not outlandish sums.
Yes, I know of letter preference service etc, these get through despite it at the moment. Like sending them to my late father.
AWW does this mean I have to share my money cause you guy got it too....AWWW
RATS
and here I wanted it all for myself.... LOL
Maybe I can use the money to get a bigger P***s or to buy some viagra, like all the other emails I get.. and im a girl.. Wow the possiblilities are endless. what gets me is there are people out there who would think this is real, even though they didnt enter any contest to become the winner. Sad there are so many gullable people out there.
WAKE UP, smell the coffee...