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Hoax name: Lottery Alias: Discovered: 2003-10-07 12:29 PM, GMT Type: Hoax Summary: [***] advises all recipients of this email to delete it and not to forward it to others. This is a hoax trying to convince people that they've won some lottery. The money are, of course, never paid out. Please note that hoaxes often have several variations in circulation, so you may receive a hoax message that is similar, but not identical to text we present here. Description: [***] advises all recipients of this email to delete it and not to forward it to others. Subject: LOTTERY WINNER |
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Body: WINNING NOTIFICATION: We happily announce to you the draw of the Euro - Afro Asian Sweepstake International programs held on the 1st of May 2003 in Dakar Senegal. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 564 75600545 188 with Serialnumber 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-26-13-35-7, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$2,500,000.00 (Two million, five hundred thousand, United States Dollars) in cash credited to file C/9080118308/02. This is from a total cash prize of US $ 25 Million dollars, shared amongst the first Fifty (50) lucky winners in this category. Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your US$2,500,000.00 (Two million, five hundred thousand,United States Dollars) would be released to you by our security firm in Europe. Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him. All participants were selected randomly from World Wide Web site through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned. |
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i never fall for that shit anyway |
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no but really, who does..? |
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experience tells me some people on this board are quite unsure about stuff like this. and of course, this thread are directed to them. |
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thanks |
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i once got an email saying i won an X-Box, i followed the link and it took me to this pretty legitamate looking site, they asked the usual details, home adress, phone number, name....but i wasnt sure when they asked me for my credit card details O_o what for i never gave them my details, but here is the site if you wana check it out yourself |
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but, when they say you've won something while you never participated in anything, you know something is wrong right!?! i really can't believe people could fall for those emails! |
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I can't imagine anyone.. How stupid can one be.. the only ones falling for this are mid-fourties housewives and their impotent husbands. |
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exactly. |
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wait wait wait.. let me get this straight. You're saying I won!!!? nice. |
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yes. give me your creditcard. send it. please. but quickly. |
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haha, right, please give me your credit card, and i'll send you your prize... |
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RULE TO LIVE BY: if you dont enter, you dont win *i tried typing that in after phobx second post, but the internet shited out here |
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i just saw the simpsons ep today in which homer believes he's won a million buckorees |
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what's the point of that e-mail? Just to be stupid? I mean, normally, they are like: SEND CREDIT CARD INFO TO CONFIRM YOUR PRIZE NUMBERS!!!!!!! this is just stupid. |
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Erronous, dont think that i fell for it or nothing, i was just curious how well these guys had planned the whole scheme |
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there was this awesome scam described in wikipedia, I forget what it was called. (search "scam" in wikipedia.org to find it probably) but it works by a person putting up flyers that say something like "if you invest 1 dollar to my company I will triple your investment back to you" Eventually a few skeptical people just try it, but what the person does is uses the money people are investing TO pay people back just like he said. Eventually word gets around that this actually works, and soon people are investing 4 dollars, then 20 etc and the guy still uses other people's donations to pay the other people back, until eventually he stops paying anyone and disappears with a load of cash. |
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that sounds like what some well known CEOs have done. It's not quite a pyramid, iirc it's called a Ponzi Scheme. |
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