Woopee! Free Money!

[erick (Eric)]

I just got this email!


Dear Sir/Madam,
This is to notify you that you emerged as one of the winner of world wide promo held this quater,automatically makes you a
winner of the sum of 516,778.00 POUNDS STERLING
Provide the following details to our Payment Officer as to enable fillyour payment cheque. Name:Mr Kelvin Unsworth (PAYMENT
OFFICER). Email:webdrawsnotice14@live.com

PAYMENT PROCESSING DETAILS1.FULL NAMES:2.ADDRESS:3.5.MARITAL STATUS:6.7.TELEPHONE NUMBER:8.COUNTRY9
Sincerely,Lucy Jenifer


Strange They have all that money to give away, yet cannot employ people who can spell, use English or format correctly?

[JethroB76 (Jeff)]

Don't be greedy Eric, forward that email on so we can all maybe win some money too

You know, theres probably someone with a vaguely similar surname as yours who recently died in Europe or somewhere that has left all their millions to you as well..

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I won the Dutch lottery the other day and today I won 800,000 euros.
But I have so much money due to come in from Nigeria that I just ignored those emails.

[erick (Eric)]

We were told that 95% of the email coming into the University is trapped by SPAM filters and dumped. What a massive waste of resources!


This one got through!

[dannat (Daniel)]

I was happy enough to win the office sweep, which is about $25,

[Ian Robinson]

Just every couple of days I get spam in my Hotmail inbox offering me contact with Sexy Lonely Russian Ladies , Viagara and Sex Improvers (what ever they mean by that ...), not interested .... so my response is to :
1) move it to Junk
2) click it and click phlishing
3) watch it disappear unread.

[Sharnbrook (Mike)]

That looks really good. I'ld really jump at the chance, but get your money quickly, with the A$ exchange rate to the pound, you'll be so much better off!

Just make sure that the cheque isn't written on the Bank of Scotland.

[Jen]

dont you just love those emails (NOT)

[spearo (Frank)]

anyone else noticed how Lucy Jenifer is close to Luc..ifer...?

[Ric]

Your shout at the pub Eric.

Well spotted Frank, very interesting indeed.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Hubby and his mates from work, as a joke, sent away for one of those "enlargement" promotions, and received a magnifying glass.

[spearo (Frank)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Hubby and his mates from work, as a joke, sent away for one of those "enlargement" promotions, and received a magnifying glass.

hilarious
and probably legal too!
frank

[Rick Petrie]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Hubby and his mates from work, as a joke, sent away for one of those "enlargement" promotions, and received a magnifying glass.

Did the glass have a 'focal length'?

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by dannat

I was happy enough to win the office sweep, which is about $25,

Good on you. Every year my 'horse' is white, has horns, a beard and only three legs. Its run is timed with a calendar - it keeps stopping to browse.

[stephenb (Stephen)]

I was receiving Spam/Irish/British Lottery emails for months, then I decided to reply to one of them. This particular email wanted me to send my bank details to a "Dr. West". So I created this response and return it...

Hello,

Yes I do know Dr. West, and I in fact hope to meet him again on his next trip to New Zealand. His speaking tour is certainly enthralling and he is a great speaker, despite the fact that Dr. West is currently on trial at the United Nations on charges of war crimes and genocide in three European countries. However my main concern are claims that he accepted a Nobel Prize for Literature, despite the fact that his last two novels "Bill Gates and me - Our Work With The Homeless" and "Agricultural Crop Rotation methods of 16th-Century Europe" only sold 25,000 copies combined.

As a supporter of Dr. West's publications, he already has my address details and I look forward to our next dinner engagement.

Please pass on my best regards to Dr. West, he may recall I sat between Tom Cruise and Margaret Thatcher at the charity dinner in Vancouver last August.

Kind Regards,

Sumatobooto Ballartomahrini
Department of International Chartered Kinetics and Hybrid Electronics And Design
Canberra, Australia

I have never received another one again.

I make these up and send them every 12 months or so.

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Stephen,

That is very good. And I hope the good Dr West escapes his charges.

cheers,
David

[Ian Robinson]

Originally Posted by Ric

Your shout at the pub Eric.

Well spotted Frank, very interesting indeed.

Bugger the shout !!! EF 200mm f/2 L IS USMs all round I should think.

[Ian Robinson]

Originally Posted by AstralTraveller

Stephen,

That is very good. And I hope the good Dr West escapes his charges.

cheers,
David

Stephan West ?

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

What I really find astonishing is that there are people gullible enough to believe these things. I like the magnifying glass; at least you get a bit of a laugh for your money.
Geoff