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.jrauck
06-12-2006, 04:51 PM
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the NetLottery
Corporation programs held on the 27th of May,2006. Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number 5388/02 with serial number 5388/02
drew lucky numbers 37-13-34-85-56-42 which consequently won in the
3RD category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£516,778.00(Five hundred and Sixteen thousand,seven hundred and
seventy eight pounds sterling only) or $921,201:00(Nine hundred and
twenty one thousand two hundred and one dollars only)in cash/check
credited to file number NTL/34123/003.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses
and names from all over the world,the program takes place every
year.This lottery was promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities
such as Her Royal Highness,the Queen of England.

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 £516,778 (Five hundred and Sixteen
thousand,seven hundred and seventy eight pounds sterling) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our Agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claim 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. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please kindly provide the following
informations and send it to our Fiduciary Agent who shall clear you
as a winner.(1)FULL NAMES (2)DATE OF BIRTH
(3)SEX (4)MARITAL STATUS(5)CONTACT ADDRESS (6)PHONE NUMBERS
(7)OCCUPATION

I dont even live in england?

nil8
06-12-2006, 04:55 PM
Yea. Scam. SCAM SCAM SCAM.
It's for spammers to sell off.

Omega
06-12-2006, 05:13 PM
A rule of thumb:

If you recieve an email from a newsletter you didn't subscribe to or somebody you don't know, it's very likely to be a scam. or porn spam. or viagra spam.


-Omega

Cevinzol
06-12-2006, 05:56 PM
SCAM!

This lottery was promoted and sponsored by ... Her Royal Highness,the Queen of England.
Her Royal Harness does not endorse lotteries on the internet.

"We are not amused" Queen Vicky

Aero
06-12-2006, 06:30 PM
lol, yep scamola. This one is new, I usually get the ones from the prince of Nigeria or something like that.

Rankenphile
06-12-2006, 07:07 PM
Rule of thumb: "If it's to good to be true, it is."

.jrauck
06-12-2006, 09:10 PM
Ya I agree now I read up on this one.

Slug Toy
06-12-2006, 11:48 PM
even if you had no idea how to intuitively identify a scam... if you have good grammar and reasonable common sense, youd pick up on a couple things.

number 1:


you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claim is processed

till? TILL? well theres your problem...

number 2:


Our Agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

i dont really see any way to contact this person...



so there are two probabilities here:

1. its a FAKE
2. people in the UK consider till to be a proper formal word, and they have horrible planning skills.

opengswede
06-13-2006, 02:19 AM
If you think that one is hard to catch, try this one I got a couple of months ago.

subject: Etre
body:
Etre

L'Apparence Est
Matière
Conscience
Mouvement.

La conscience est
Sensation,croissance,
Perception,déplacement,
Apparition,communication;

Conscient est.

Bare in mind that I'm a Swede and I did not know the sender... I still havn't figured out what kind of hidden sale / pron / viagra is in this message. Anyone with enough knowledge of French that could enlighten me?

-.erik

.jrauck
06-13-2006, 03:45 AM
Well this is the whole thing I just wanted to keep it as short as I could.


FROM:NETLOTTERY CORPORATION
REF NUMBER: EAASL/9410Y1/02
BATCH NUMBER: 561701-PCD03
1 QUEENS PARK ROAD
K2M 4RT
LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM.

WINNING NOTIFICATION


We are pleased to inform you of the result of the NetLottery
Corporation programs held on the 27th of May,2006. Your e-mail
address attached to ticket number 5388/02 with serial number 5388/02
drew lucky numbers 37-13-34-85-56-42 which consequently won in the
3RD category.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
£516,778.00(Five hundred and Sixteen thousand,seven hundred and
seventy eight pounds sterling only) or $921,201:00(Nine hundred and
twenty one thousand two hundred and one dollars only)in cash/check
credited to file number NTL/34123/003.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses
and names from all over the world,the program takes place every
year.This lottery was promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities
such as Her Royal Highness,the Queen of England.

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 £516,778 (Five hundred and Sixteen
thousand,seven hundred and seventy eight pounds sterling) would be
released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.

Our Agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate
the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claim 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. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please kindly provide the following
informations and send it to our Fiduciary Agent who shall clear you
as a winner.(1)FULL NAMES (2)DATE OF BIRTH
(3)SEX (4)MARITAL STATUS(5)CONTACT ADDRESS (6)PHONE NUMBERS
(7)OCCUPATION

MR.Garreth Unsworth
Email:ntlclaims@yahoo.co.uk

Upon receipt of the duly requested datas,he shall send to you
the contact information of the paying Office so you can proceed
with effecting the release of your funds.

Goodluck from me and members of staff of Net Lottery International.

Yours faithfully,
Steven Burtler
ONLINE SUPERVISOR
NET LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.

Slug Toy
06-13-2006, 06:57 PM
interesting...


subject: Etre
body:
Etre

L'Apparence Est
Matière
Conscience
Mouvement.

La conscience est
Sensation,croissance,
Perception,déplacement,
Apparition,communication;

Conscient est.


ill translate this to the best of my ability...

subject: to be
body: to be

appearance is matter-conscious movement.

the conscience is Sensation, growth, perception, displacement, apparition, communication;

conscious is.



... congratulations, you have a messed up philosipher harassing you. apparently hes hung up on "i think therefor i am" too.

now, as for yours .jrauck, its still fake... although it gets an A for effort. maybe give that guy an email just to see what happens.... not with any info about yourself, but just to see if you get a response. im sure it doesnt matter if you include info anyways... they already have your email... i beet they know the inner workings of your soul too.