Hot damn! I won the lottery!

[Manifest Destiny]

I just checked my e-mail and I received a message that I've won the lottery in the UK. I didn't even know that the Brits had a lottery until now. How lucky can a guy be?

Here is what the message said:

UK e-National Lottery Promo.
United Kingdom.

You have emerged Winner from this Weeks Draws. Contact;
Name: Mr. Terry Phillips
Email: pterry112@gala.net
Phone: +44 7045711283

For Claims Of Funds, Please provide the Following Information's;
*Full Name, *Contact Address, *Sex, *Age, *Telephone (mobile)

Winning Details,
Amount Won: £891,934.00 GBP
Date Of Draw: July 20th, 2009.

From The Clerk Office,
Result Department.

NOTE: Please also let us know if you will like your name to be published
in the media. Congratulations once again from the entire team.

So...what should I do with my new-found riches? :cool:

[Loki]

They're just phishing for your personal details. :rolleyes2:

[Útrám]

If there was any truth to such adverts I would have 47 Ipods and 19 US green cards by now.

[Lysander]

If there was any truth to such adverts I would have 47 Ipods and 19 US green cards by now.

Heh yeah.
And what's up with the Green card spamming anyway? Who said I even wanted to live and work the US?!

[Jamt]

Take a dump on your boss`s desk, tell your coworkers to go to hell, burn all your savings, max out your credit cards and so on, then give your family and friends the news and wait for tomorrow.

[Manifest Destiny]

They're just phishing for your personal details. :rolleyes2:

You mean it's fake? Oh, well. At least I can fall back on all that money I'm getting from some guy in Nigeria. ;)

[Barreldriver]

I get 3-4 of those messages a week, they go directly into my trash bin. One claimed to have over 10 billion dollars in it for me, total b.s. All they want is my personal info so they can tamper with my life for their benefit.

[Tabiti]

Loser! I won that few times!

BTW, are there people who believe in that? The existence of such spams is a proof there are.

[Manifest Destiny]

Heh yeah.
And what's up with the Green card spamming anyway? Who said I even wanted to live and work the US?!

It's because spammers are lazy and just hope that some of the people on their mass-mailing lists are dumb enough to fall for it. Who actually thinks that a guy in California is playing the lottery in England?

[Osweo]

I happen to know that the law enforcement services of many countries are very interested in tracking down those involved in these scams.

[Æmeric]

I found a message yesterday in one of my emailboxes that I had won the British South African lottery. Apparently my email address had been entered.I found it more clever then the emails telling me I was the heir to a large fortune of a distant relative who dies in Nigeria. I don't have any relatives in Nigeria. :coffee:

I don't bother reporting these scams to authorities. They are so common I just assume law enforcement personnel also receive them on a regular basis.

[Rhobot]

I won the lottery in South Africa too, and I hope the money comes soon. I'm gonna need it to buy all the generic viagra I'll need to pleasure all the cheating housewives who want one-night stands with me.

[Äike]

I won the lottery in South Africa too, and I hope the money comes soon. I'm gonna need it to buy all the generic viagra I'll need to pleasure all the cheating housewives who want one-night stands with me.

They want one-night stands with you too? :eek::D

[Skandi]

I need it soi I can buy all those penis enlargement devices, they say I can grow 3 inches!
and pleasure my girl... hmmm really??

Oh plus job offers, debt management etc etc

[HawkR]

You lucky bastards! I seldomly get them:( I used to get them like all the time, but now I don't...:(:p

[ikki]

Take a dump on your boss`s desk, tell your coworkers to go to hell, burn all your savings, max out your credit cards and so on, then give your family and friends the news and wait for tomorrow.

Actually there is this story about a guy that did just about that. Always filling out his cupon, same numbers, but being too shitfaced drunk to see the numbers, so he always asked a waitress for them the next day instead.

So his friends decided to do a little trick on him.

So when he asked for them as always, and recieved the fake numbers... thinking he was a millionare.. he proceded to tell his gf to pack up and get lost (and being fat, lousy lay and ugly..), told his friends they sucked and that he never wanted to see them again and called the boss to call him a useless cunt.