February 22nd, 2007 at 2:23 pm
If only this were true, I’ll be a multi-millionaire, as I have get a couple of these emails daily i.e. of me winning the UK Lottery. I don’t know what the point is for someone sending this. There are no blatant advertisements, no URLs, no images etc. (not that I am asking for it). I can see email spam trying to push products and services down your throat but this is just pointless.
Seriously, if I am to be informed of lottery winnings, it’ll have to be from something either than a free service like charter.net or yahoo.com email. These spammers are definitely lacking some intelligence and common sense. And don’t they know to spell check? … look at the words “noitfy” and “stelings” (in bold) in the email message. As Charlie Brown would say… “Good Grief!”
—–Original Message—–
From: UK INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY [mailto:afrogge@charter.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:51 PM
Subject: LUCKY WINNER!!!
Dear Winner,
On behalf of the ukinternational lottery board we are here to noitfy you on your winnings of £118,704 thousand pounds stelings to claim your prize send us these tickets numbers Batch: 19/47/1153,Ref:
UKLOSL/941OYI/53 ,Serial Number: 3422/06,Lucky Numbers:
4-7-10-33-35-49 .
To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent:
AGENT: Mr. Danny Alvares.
EMAIL: info.dannyalvares02@yahoo.co.uk
Yours Truly,
Mr.Scott Parker
6 Responses to “If only this were true …”
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AV said: @ 2:49 pm
February 22nd, 2007
You too, huh? I get these plus those requesting my help from Nigeria. I’m sure popular.
Cristin said: @ 4:31 pm
February 22nd, 2007
It’s either a bit of “social engineering” to obtain some other nefarious goal, or they’re trying to get the whole world to spam the contact information provided.
The Foo said: @ 5:11 pm
February 22nd, 2007
AV: I get some of those Nigeria ones too but more of these lottery ones lately.
Cristin: “spamming the contact information provided” … never thought about it that way.
thethinker said: @ 6:20 pm
February 23rd, 2007
I’ve been getting so many of those lately. Sooo annoying.
angela k said: @ 3:24 pm
February 26th, 2007
My first thought is always to get excited that I’ve won! My second thought is to have a good chuckle on myself THINKING that I won. And my third thought is to be irritated that there are so many scum-sucking people in the world who would try to steal other people’s money. Humpft. Hope you figure out how to spam the spammers. That was a great idea. Cheers to you, Foo!
Little Church Guy said: @ 12:43 am
February 27th, 2007
What they’re trying to do is to get you to give them info on your bank account. After all, they will need a place to deposit all that money. I’m not sure why spam filters don’t catch this crap, probably because they are using your e-mail address that they got off your Blog profile.