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— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008
Man I'm lucky!!!
Published Thu, Apr 12 2007 1:08 PM
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I was just notified by email that I won a lottery that I never even entered!!!
FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY
COMPUTER BALLOT JACKPOT 'A' DRAW RESULT.
Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Free Lotto
International programs drawn today, 02/04/2007. Your E-mail address attached to
Ticket number:334/ 660078 with Serial number 05908 drew the lucky numbers
9-43-97, which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore
been approved for a lump sum payout of $1,500,000.00USDollars. (One
Million, Five Hundred United States Dollars).
This is from a total cash prize of US$125 million dollars shared
amongst the lucky winners in this grand category.
This year's Lottery Program Jackpot (LPJ) is the largest ever for Free
Lottery. The estimated $125 million jackpot would be the sixth biggest
in free lotto history. Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our European booklet representative office in Europe as
indicated in our play coupon.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
In view of this, your US$1,500,000.00USDollars. (One Million, Five
Hundred United States Dollars). would be released to you by our affiliate Bank while our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your prize soon as you make contact with them. All participants were selected randomly from 'World Wide Web' sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.
This promotion takes place periodically. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims
is processed. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.
To file for your claim, please contact our /your processing agent
CONTACT:
**********************************************
Paul Vanfrant
Email: loterijAdraws@aol.co.uk
spanishAdraws@aol.co.uk
Tel: +34-692-967-891
**********************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Company (if any):
Winning reference and Batch numbers:
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.
Yours truly,
Walter Jones
Promotion Manager.
THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!
How lucky is that!
I'm fully aware that this is a scam. What I don't understand is how people can really be that gullible.
Here's a few fun things to notice. The numeric text that describes the amount I "won" says I won one million five hundred thousand dollars. The textual description of the amount is only one million five hundred dollars.
This fool is already trying to rip me off by US$499,500.00!
Second, I want to know why it took them over two months to notify me. I'm not THAT hard to find.
Third, I'm not exactly a grammarian, but even I could do better than "You are advice to provide".
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