yay \o/ Drinks will be on me....

Somebody who thinks I came down in the last shower

When the funds come through

Somebody who thinks I came down in the last shower wrote:

JAPAN JUMBO DRAW
FOREIGN SERVICES MANAGER,
PLAZA DE MAR ZHENG HONG KONG

Customer Service
Ref: JP/7146x4/99
Batch: 042/02/xa192
WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We happily announce to you the draw (#1035) of the JAPAN EMAIL PROMOTION LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on today in OSAKA JAPAN. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 45375600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers(14,33,36,39,42,46)and bonus ball(13), which Subsequently won you the match 5 bonus prize in the 2nd category match 5 plus bonus .

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of US$500,000,00 in cash (five Hundred Thousand, united state dollars) in cash credited to file ktu/9023118308/07.This is from a total cash prize of US$2,650,000.00 shared among the international winners in the Second category.

Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all part of the world as part of our electronic business Promotions Program.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our CHINA booklet representative office in ASIA as indicated .In view of this, your US$500,000.00 ( five Hundred Thousand, united state dollars) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in ASIA as soon as possible.

Our CHINA agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your winning funds as soon as you fill the claims verification form below and send to him.

FOREIGN SERVICES MANAGER,
TRANSGLOBE FINANCE SECURITIES
PLAZA DE MAR ZHENG CHINA
iinterlotto_15@yahoo.com

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. Be warned to file for your claim immediately.

To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with our designated agent or us.
Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.
Thank you for being part of our promotional lottery program.

Your Sincerely,
DR MRS AYODAM
VICE PRESIDENT INT.PROMOTIONS


CLAIMS VERIFICATION FORM

FULL NAMES OF BENEFICIARY:........................

CONTACT ADDRESS:..................................

EMAIL ADDRESS:............................................

CITY/STATE:.......................................

COUNTRY:..........................................

NATIONALITY:......................................

SEX:.......................AGE:...................

MARITAL STATUS...................................

TEL NO:...........................................

NEXT OF KIN:......................................

ANNUAL INCOME:....................................
AMOUNT WON:.......................................

REFENCE NO:................BATCH NO:..............

LUCKY NO:..................TICKET NO..............

SERIAL NO:.................LOTTERY DATE:..........

Ruu_Old

Hah, get a few of those everyday.:)

NAME: Joe Bloggs
ADDRESS: 123 Fake Street

Same nigerian 419 scam of course.
Spam filter usually picks them up but that one got through for some reason.

Last one I got started
Dear Tristrame-Thank God we have found you...

Dave!

You jam-bag! :eek:

Lust4Life

I only get the ones from Nigeria these days.
Have you ever followed through on these just to see how far they will go without the pertinent info they're phishing for?

I did that one time.
I kept sending each new E-mail address they provided a message saying "Bring me my money! I'll meet you at the bank!"

And then they say "Oh, no, we cannot deliver the money. You must travel to claim it."

Then I said "Well, just send it to me."

And they said "We could do that, but you must arrange the shipment with courrier XXXX (No other courrier is acceptable) and insure the shipment for $3,500.00."

Then I said "Well, if I had $3,500 I'd be there in person. Just deduct it from my winnings and send the check."

Oh, no! They can't do that! They aren't allowed to tamper with the funds.

then I said "You have my written permission to tamper with it in order to send it to me."

And then they say "You must have an attorney notarize a drafted letter."

And I said "I am an attorney."

Silence.

It was an amusing week's worth of E-mails.

Faith

I never get interesting junk like that! Just ones for prescriptions meds and viagra .

wba88

Faith wrote:

I never get interesting junk like that! Just ones for prescriptions meds and viagra .

@faith: ill send u interestin mail if ya want

congrats on the 500,000 fake dollars. tell them u want it donated to charity, then see what they say!

Kastro

i say you reply....
purley coz you owe me a drink....

JAPAN JUMBO DRAW

We happily announce to you the draw (#1035) of the JAPAN EMAIL PROMOTION LOTTERY, online Sweepstakes International program held on today in OSAKA JAPAN.

Our CHINA agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your winning funds as soon as you fill the claims verification form below and send to him.

FOREIGN SERVICES MANAGER,
TRANSGLOBE FINANCE SECURITIES
PLAZA DE MAR ZHENG CHINA

They can't even get the right country.

Oh, and a pint of guinness there please.

I'll get ye the pints anyway seeing as its saturday BUT
Drats and double Drats...

I appear to have violated an extremely important condition to keep this secret.

Blast how did I miss that bit

Speaking of people that have replied for the crack...

This is hilarious -theres a good few more of them there aswell... including this sidespitter

Alkers

iinterlotto_15@yahoo.com
rofl

Rb

Tristrame wrote:

This is hilarious -theres a good few more of them there aswell... including this sidespitter

Thats a lot of reading!

I wonder how many people actually fall for these scams, they're so ridiculous I'd hope the number would be small but then again, theres an awful lot of stupid people out there..

AdMMM

Well they wouldn't keep sending them if they didn't have some sort of success. Shame really. I almost fell for a PayPal scam a few weeks a go, but to cut a long story short, I didn't.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

isn't there some sort of game that people play, where they try and reverse scam the letter-writer.

e.g. getting them to send gifts etc

EDIT: here it is : called "scam-baiting"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam_baiting

v funny

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

|.Murderer.| wrote:

I almost fell for a PayPal scam a few weeks a go, but to cut a long story short, I didn't.

what was the scam?

Sofaspud

I never get any of these 419s, I want to, because I'd love to bait.

I think my opening line would be "Wow, you've saved my life. I was planning on taking my own life within the hour, but with your financial assistance I won't need to. God bless you.

-Father Michael O'Toole"

EKRIUQ

Before you start baiting these scammers you should really check out www.419eater.com for some helpful tips. It's always better to bait safe and it's quite an enjoyable hobby.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Sofaspud wrote:

I never get any of these 419s, I want to, because I'd love to bait.

I think my opening line would be "Wow, you've saved my life. I was planning on taking my own life within the hour, but with your financial assistance I won't need to. God bless you.

-Father Michael O'Toole"

Respond to the scam in the OP. Say you saw it in your friends email address, and because you have banking experience, he wants you to manage the collection of his win from them!

Sofaspud

Roundtower2 wrote:

Respond to the scam in the OP. Say you saw it in your friends email address, and because you have banking experience, he wants you to manage the collection of his win from them!

Good idea. I'll do it tomorrow, though. I'm going to bed soon, up early in the morning to meet THE HOFF!