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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Taristin on December 18, 2003, 07:29:05 pm
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I got an email, along with about 44 other people saying I won US1.5 million dollars from a Netherloto company... And that it's part of a US28.5 million dollar prize pot ( 1.5 x 44 =/= 28.5Mil ). But I thought it was funny to see the stupidity of it... I bet they want my Social Security number and bank account information to forward my prize to. Oh, and I'm breaching the contract by showing this appearently, but since I'm convinced it's a farce, I don't care.
Subject: PRIZE WINNER
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X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Dec 2003 19:06:22.0444 (UTC) FILETIME=[06B18AC0:01C3C59A]
Date: 18 Dec 2003 21:06:22 +0200
NETHERLOTO CORPORATION,
41132, NL-1007 DB AMSTERDAM,
THE NETHERLANDS.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: "---------------------"
AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement of
the,15TH NOVEMBER, 2003, of winners of the
NETHERLOTO CORP./ INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
held on 19TH SEPTEMBER 2003.You / your company, attached to ticket number 013-2316-2002-477, with serial number A025-09 drew the lucky numbers 37-13-34-85-56-42, and consequently won in category C.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
US$1,500,000.00 in cash credited to file REF NO. REF:"----------------------"
This is from total prize money of US$28,500,000.00 shared among the nineteen international winners in the category C. All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 30,000 names from Australia, New Zealand, America, Asia, Europe,USA and North America as part our International Promotions Program, which is conducted annually.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Your fund is now deposited with a Finance and Security House and insured in your name. Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until yourclaim has been processed and your money remitted to your account. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.
We hope with a part of you prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes US$1.3 billion International lotto.
To begin your claim, please contact your claims officer immediately:
THOMAS JONKA
FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,
EUROSHORE FINANCIAL,
TEL: +44 774 223 3824
D/L:+882 165 207 0942
Fax: +44 207 681 2478
:+882 165 207 0949
EMAIL:[email protected]
For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated account of your choice. Remember, you must contact your claims officer not later than DECEMBER 24TH, 2003. After this date, all funds will be returned as unclaimed. All correspondences to Mr.Thomas Jonka,either by fax or email, should have this email sent along with it and your reference number clearly stated in every correspondence.
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference number in every one of your correspondences with your claims officer. Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claims officer as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.
Sincerely,
THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,
netherloto CORPORATION.
N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will result to disqualification. Please do not reply this mail
Hell, when I win money like this, I'd atleast like the math to make sence, and the company to send a personalized, individual email to me... lol
Edit: Someone please call this guy for me, and if you get the cash, I'll split it with ya... ;)
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Well he's using an ISP e-mail.
Also: http://www.scamorama.com/ladsinspace.html
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Hehe it's the 60's again.
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Hillarious...
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It's a con. I've heard tales of some stupid greedy people getting burned by it.
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of course its a scam. no one actually believes it was real, right?
if it was real it probably wouldn't be emailed, for one thing...
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yeah i once got an email from my bank kalled HansaBank .... it sayed they had lost my interent banking numbers...you know that code card n stuff so they asked me to type in my user name permnante password and all the 30something card numbers and send it back to them......i cant bellive 50 people in my country actually fell for it :p
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where does the statistics come from? its not like they're going to publish them, right?
"report on stupidity of internet users, fifty people replied to obvious scam email"
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Originally posted by icespeed
where does the statistics come from? its not like they're going to publish them, right?
"report on stupidity of internet users, fifty people replied to obvious scam email"
You obviously fail to udnerstand the sheer idioci=y of the poepl who fall for it...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3323835.stm
"One of its victims is Arlen Hughes from Saratoga in the US state of Wyoming.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it all started when he received a phone call, "from a fellow in Nigeria, saying I had inherited an oil company and everything that went along with it."
They told him he would inherit $42m, the value of the company, if he paid some money up front.
The Nigerian fraudsters said that as a non-resident, he had to pay $57,000 in tax into a CTB bank account in Scotland to release the millions.
Initially sceptical, Hughes said the lure of the money and the professionalism of the fraudsters took him in: "I found a registered number in Scotland and more research led me to believe that the bank was on the uppity up. So when I began to deal with them I thought they were legitimate."
Hughes and his friends, who he encouraged to invest in the scheme, were duped out of around $145,000. "
Get this - the 'bank' he checked out was a Chemists shop in Thurso. If he'd simply phoned it, he'd have saved 40 grand......
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Notice that the guy from Wyoming never wondered from whom he could have possibly inheritted a Nigerian oil company from! Surely that would be your first question :D
These schemes always prey on the greed of the victim. The lottery Raa Tor'h recieved doesn't usually ask for bank details. Instead it usually claims that as foreigner he would have to pay a processing fee upfront for them to be able to get it out of the country without him having to pay a substantial amount of tax to the government of the country.
You can see where the greed comes in now. Personally I would be happy to pay the tax and deal with the goverment directly so that I could get my money without the problem of dealling with any shady agencies but the people who get taken in by this sort of thing are greedy enough to send money to someone they've never met in order to get money they never earned (and don't even remember entering a contest for!)
It's just sheer greed. I heard a case of a guy who was taken for $50,000 in order to avoid paying $1/2 Dollars he thought he'd won on the canadian lottery. He was told that his winnings amounted to $24 million and yet he was so greedy to avoid losing 2% of the claimed fortune that he ended up getting taken for so much money he ended up having to re-morgage his house. :rolleyes:
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ROFLMAO
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There's an ID theft scam going on over here. It's where some guy calls someone claiming to be the county courthouse and saying that whoever they are calling failed to show up for jury duty. They then proceed to ask that person their social security number and a bunch of other things. Damn clever in my opinion.
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MARS ATTACKED CHINA!!! :shaking: :shaking: :shaking:
WHO'S NEXT? WHERE CAN I FIND INFORMATION ON THIS??? CNN? FOX? MSNBC? GIVE ME A LINK!!! WE ARE ALL DOOOOMED!!!
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Learn all about it here (http://www.netherlotocorp.com/).
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Interesting that a *cough* european *cough* company would advertise prizes in dollars rather than euros...............
Nice to see that their 'verisign - click to verify' badge isn't actually clickable :lol:
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this is funny thread:lol:
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I've had mail from some American banking guy telling me a wealthy relative was killed in an Air Korea accident a few years ago and I had only x-months to claim my unknown fortune.
He first said the money could only remain unclaimed (under US law) for 6 years. He mailed again a few months later and said 7 years.
Then I had mail from some wealthy South African (or somethin') woman claiming she was being oppressed by her Goverment.
If I supplied my details (to allow her to place some of her fortune in my account) I could retain 20%
Suffice to say, neither have had replies.
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What, are you stupid, man?!?! Send them your bank details immediately!
:nervous:
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I tell you what, PM me your bank details and I'll do it for you.
:)
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"ONE DAY I RECEIVED AN ANONYMOUS EMAIL FROM NETHERLOTTO CORPORATION THAT I WON A PRIZE , I TOLD MY HUSBAND AND HE SAID IT WAS A SCAM. HOWEVER I TOOK A BOLD STEP TO PROCESS MY WINNING, TODAY AM A MILLIONAIRES THANKS BE TO GOD".
ROSA DE MIGUEL, AGE-38 OSAKA, JAPAN.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Anyone else find the fact that they chose a Spanish name for a fake anecdote supposedly from Japan a bit odd?
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No odder than an american from Wyoming inheriting a Nigerian oil company :D Texan I could understand but Nigerian?
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[color=cc9900]So, Raa, what're you going to do with the money?[/color]
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not buy land in china, i'd gather.
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That's an easy one - make more by helping millions of Nigerian widows reclaim their husbands wealth!
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Got this one today:
You have just been randomly selected out of a total of over 30 Million people for an
opportunity to be one of the first people allowed to participate in something special...
Something that has taken years to create... and something that is going to make a lot of
people very wealthy.
See what I'm talking about by going to this website.
http://www.ebuddywise.com/cgi-bin/st.cgi?cmp=7HA&list_id=3&cd=ebuddywise
:lol:
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Ohhh thats a good one!
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Originally posted by Odyssey
[color=cc9900]So, Raa, what're you going to do with the money?[/color]
I'm thinking of buying a few hundred acres of Canadian wilderness and having a scale-replica of an Orion built on it.
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[color=cc9900]No, no, Russia. Land there is 7p/acre, last time I checked. So the kinda land you want would only cost a couple of tenners.[/color]
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lessee, a .com email, a completely not remotely dutch name, and an awfull lot of bull.
this has to be the most funny thing i have seen for quite some time.
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Glad to make your day. ;)
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Originally posted by icespeed
of course its a scam. no one actually believes it was real, right?
if it was real it probably wouldn't be emailed, for one thing...
Sadly... this is not the case.
A good example here: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-asecnigerian23122303dec23,0,4096704.story
This guy won't even admit to being frauded. He still believes the scammers are his "friends" and the greedy governments are at fault.
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The scammers may be smart but they can be just as greedy too.
click me (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/31270.html) :lol: