The lotto, I won it

dubtom

Got this email recently from 'IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, DUBLIN.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Ref: IR/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369 ,
they must have moved, anyway, I've won 1.5 mill in january, I think I also may have won in december but deleted that win by mistake. here's the letter I got.

IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY WINNER
You are a winner of the IRISH National Lottery New year Bonanza
Online Promo Programme that was held on 29th January, 2007.
The draw was done electronically with several email addresses provided
to this office by Microsoft to enhance the Global utilization of the Internet.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 1,350,000 (One Million Three Hundred AND Fifty Thousand Euro).Your Winning Check Will be Handed Over to You as soon as Our Claims Department Verify Your Winning After You Might have filled the Payment Processing Form that Will be Given to You In Due Course. We Do Not need Your Bank Information for You to Claim Your Winnings.You are Advised to Contact Our Claims Agent: DR MARK OMERA
Tel: +44
Email:mark_omera@

Please Quote Your Reference Number as IR/xxxxxxx when
you are Filing Your Claims.You are also advised to keep your winning and
winning informations confidential to avoid Identity Theft and Identity Fraud.
Congratulations once more from all our members of Staff.

I'm delighted to see a european take these nigerian scammers to task and try and beat them at their own game,unfortunatly, Mr O'Mera doesn't seem any better at it than the nigerians
Anyone else got one of these?

Saruman

Congrats on your win lol

Jambo

They could have done with a geography lesson !! croydon in dublin ??

Rabies

I presume you called them and gave the local garda station number as your home number.

jor el

Haven't seen any of these, good old gmail keeps most of those away from me these days. Pity, I miss them sometimes, but mostly not.

You should reply to his email address for the craic and see what he says.
"DR MARK OMERA", why are they always a doctor? Is it because a doctor would lend credability to the scam? What would a doctor be doing working as a claims agent for a lottery company anyway?

Archeron

I got one of these before to my own personal work email address, and it said that I should mention the win to nobody, and that I should act in the strictest of confidence. It turns out 9 people in my office had received the same mail.

mealone42

dubtom wrote:

Got this email recently from 'IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,
CROYDON, DUBLIN.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Ref: IR/9420X2/68
Batch: 074/05/ZY369 ,
they must have moved, anyway, I've won 1.5 mill in january, I think I also may have won in december but deleted that win by mistake. here's the letter I got.


I get so many of these emails and usually i draw them out. I then tell them to ring me at 00353 1 xxxxxxx (garda station)and tell them to ask my secretary who answers to ask for me by name which is Garda (Big)Bollox and it amazing the number of emails I had in response that said why did I not tell them I was a policeman. It shows that they rang the number and cost them the money. This is usually in response to advanced fee scam rather than the Lottery wins. I laff me bollixs off. I also must apologise to Dublin Zoo as i have given that number also and told the Nigerian scammer to ring and ask for Mr. Leo Lyons.

drdre

Rabies wrote:

I presume you called them and gave the local garda station number as your home number.

Thats a good one

JackieChan

Archeron wrote:

I got one of these before to my own personal work email address, and it said that I should mention the win to nobody, and that I should act in the strictest of confidence. It turns out 9 people in my office had received the same mail.

Typical isn't it. The one time you do win the lottery you have to split it with 8 others!

Access

The leo lion one is good... but try giving them the phone number of a funeral home near you and get them to ask for Myra Mains!!!

ambman

got one today from the uk lottery saying i had won 480'152 pound. mrs thought we would buy a new house. was'nt impressed when i deleted it without opening it. i guess we will never know

JeanClaude

I got one from Robbie Fowler :eek: I was going to e-mail him back and ask is there any chance of a ticket for tomorrow nights game,and of course he could hold on to the Million in exchange....:D


This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash Price of
1,000,000.00(One Million Pound Sterling) in cash.from International
programme held on the 4th May. 2007 in the United Kindom,
Time 9:45 pm. The result is out for claims.

The selection process was carried out through random selection in our
computerised email selection system from a database of over 250,000
email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world which your
email was among the first ten (10) lucky winners.

You are therefore advise to contact Claims Agent.
CONTACT PERSON: MR. ROBBIE FOWLER
EMAIL:robbiefowler324@hotmail.com
1.Name in full.
2.Address in full.
3.Nationality & Present Country.
4.Age.
5.Phone /Fax /Sex.
6.Email address.
Yours Truly,
Sir Robert Barr Co-Coordinator (Online Promo Programme).

Irish Wolf

mealone42 wrote:

I get so many of these emails and usually i draw them out. I then tell them to ring me at 00353 1 xxxxxxx (garda station)and tell them to ask my secretary who answers to ask for me by name which is Garda (Big)Bollox and it amazing the number of emails I had in response that said why did I not tell them I was a policeman. It shows that they rang the number and cost them the money. This is usually in response to advanced fee scam rather than the Lottery wins. I laff me bollixs off. I also must apologise to Dublin Zoo as i have given that number also and told the Nigerian scammer to ring and ask for Mr. Leo Lyons.

Haha... I have great fun with them as well... I sent some random numbers as a Western Union number and told them the test question/answer as "An bhfuil tú go maith?" "Táim ag teacht"... the laughs I had at the thoughts of them stumbling over that when trying to collect the "money" I had sent.

Successfully made them take three trips to the bank before they finally gave up with a rather angry email back to me telling me I've made them look like a fool - and something about the fires of hell

drdre

Irish Wolf wrote:

Haha... I have great fun with them as well... I sent some random numbers as a Western Union number and told them the test question/answer as "An bhfuil tú go maith?" "Táim ag teacht"... the laughs I had at the thoughts of them stumbling over that when trying to collect the "money" I had sent.

Successfully made them take three trips to the bank before they finally gave up with a rather angry email back to me telling me I've made them look like a fool - and something about the fires of hell

Excellent. They deserve it