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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:20 am 
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had an email from UK National Lottery saying i won 250,000.00. i replied back with ''sounds like garbage to me'' and they replied back again with....
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Dear Winner,
Congratulations once again from all the staff here. I am in receipt of your email and I must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this year NEW YEAR /Charity lucky dip sweepstakes. As you already know your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 100,000 website on the internet of which your email address was attached to a ticket number, and it was selected along with others as winners.


so i replied again with '' how can i win if i didn't play?''
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Dear Winner.
Congratulations once again from all the staff here.I am in receipt of your mail and I must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this year lucky sweepstakes. As you already know your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 125,000 website on the internet of which your email address (david_healey@hotmail.com) was attached to

with somewhere to add my details... w/o bank details so i thought just for a laugh..bugger it and filled it out and sent it back. i got another email near straight away saying this...
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THE NATIONAL LOTTERY,
ONLINE SWEEPSTAKES
12 Bridge Street,
Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.


Dear David Healey,
We received your email and wish to inform you that your parcel has been sent to the Courier Company to facilitate the process of claiming your prize.The Uk Lottery Regulatory Board want all three winners of this draw 1055 to claim their winnings now to avoid problems of impersonation.

A certificate of prize claims and some vital documents will be sent along side your winning cheque. The documents to be sent are;

1.WINNING CHEQUE WORTH OF £250,000GBP(Great Britain Pounds)
2.UK WINNING CERTIFICATE AND DOCUMENTS
3.UK LOTTERY T-SHIRT


so i asked why they do not use an official email for this and i got this...
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THE NATIONAL LOTTERY,
ONLINE SWEEPSTAKES
12 Bridge Street,
Staines Middlesex TW18 4TP
United Kingdom.


Dear David Healey,
We do not use our official email domain for of fear of it being used to scam people so please bear whit us.

Please keep your winning details confidential to avoid impersonation.
Ensure you keep me inform as soon as your package arrives so that we can then close your winning file.
Congratulations! and have a wonderful day.

so lets see if anything turns up? i doubt it will but if it does and its genuine i can buy a new windscreen for my gto :D

oh i'm sure they could spell too :lol:

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:58 am 
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I get email's like this every day saying "I'm a winner, just forward to us every single piece of personal information I can find and we'll send a cheque". latest ones are from ever bank known in the UK saying they're updating there security records. Halifax yesterday, Lloyds bank was today, my block senders list is filling up and I've bounced more emails back then the Harlem globetrotters have basket balls.
Yes the spelling is quite amusing sometimes for supposedly national corporate companies.
How do they get our email addresses? Government hasn't been misplacing more laptops have they :oops:

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I got something like this a while ago from America - I'd won $500,000.
All I had to do was forward a $19.95 admin fee and they would release the funds.
I suggested they knock the admin fee from the winnings and forward me a net cheque (check?) for $499,980.05.

Guess what...........? Never heard back from them. :lol:

Good luck with yours though. I'm absolutely sure it must be genuine :lol: :lol:

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:28 pm 
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I'm currently receiving emails from a chap in Nigeria that want me to assist him to "facilitate the transfer of 25M USD" to a UK bank account. The money is the life savings of some poor unfortunate who died in a plane crash with no living relatives. I get to keep 30% for my trouble :D

He just needs all my bank account details so he can make the transfer :roll:

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Dear David

You are a WINNER

You have won a superb PORCHE 944 Turbo

Just send your address details and £6,995 to cover administration and we will be in touch to arrange for delivery or your prize...

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:52 pm 
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Same as above with my wife at work,this time a law firm in China handling estate of a guy who has died with no living relatives.As we have the same surname will transfer all funds and we get to keep 30%. Another spam blocker im afraid. My daughter who is a lawyer gets these every day to her at work so obviously they dont check company they are sending to
As they always say if it sounds too good to be true it normaly is

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Nice one Tom :lol: :cheers: :angel13:

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i got a knock yesterday by UPS and had to sign for a large package.... i opened it to find a cheque for 250,000 quid a t-shirt and a cert to say i won the lottery sweep stakes.... goin to buy some paint for my car tomorrow :D

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Well done :)

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i got a knock yesterday by UPS and had to sign for a large package.... i opened it to find a cheque for 250,000 quid a t-shirt and a cert to say i won the lottery sweep stakes.... goin to buy some paint for my car tomorrow :D

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lol the only parcels i get are bloody debt collector letters :(

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