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Sat May 24, 2008 5:08 pm

hey i got this E-mail:
EUROPE AWARD/JAPAN JUMBONOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!BATCH

NO: PBL/67189098011/245679/1109REF. NO:

PBL/11278998789/908796//1109 43 North End Road,West

Kensington,London W14 8SZ You have been approved to claim of total

sum of 1,000,000.00 euros(one million euro). Which your email address

won in the Europe Award/Japan Jumbo held in london,United Kindom. All

participants were selected through a computer ballot system draw from

Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and 3,000,000.00

individual email addresses and names from all over the world. You have

just won yourself the sum of ONE MILLION EURO in the satellite

software email lottery. PLEASE SEE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR REF AND

BATCH NUMBERS IN YOURCorrespondence TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT, Mr

JEFFREY RICE. CONTACT NAME:JEFFREY RICE CITY/ COUNTRY:

LONDON, EMAIL:jaeurodraw@live.comTELEPHONE:+4470 1112

1986 +4470 3194 2847 President.Mr Hirotaka Nakara






wich is totaly ridicilous (?) but on another side i traced it and it all slides tougheter pretty good.

what should i do?

yes i know there are much E-mail garbage in this time. but this seems more logical (?) than the other ones i have got.
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Sat May 24, 2008 5:14 pm

I get this all the time except mine deal with winnings from South Africa, A bank in South Africa, someone died and they dont want the bank to have the money so they are giving it to me, in South Africa as well (not to be offensive)

And most of them deal with the same place, Johannesburg (sp?)

But anyway, most of the ones i get seem logical, but i dont respond.
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Sat May 24, 2008 5:16 pm

Please, It's very clearly a scam. Delete it.
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Sat May 24, 2008 5:16 pm

i responded.. but with a screen shot of their house :D
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Sat May 24, 2008 5:16 pm

Somebody randomly emailing you saying you won a million Euros from a lottery you never entered or heard of seems logical?

http://www.joewein.de/sw/419msft.htm
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Sat May 24, 2008 5:20 pm

website link above wrote:Fake lottery scams operate out of West Africa, but also the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and other European countries as well as South Africa.
HA! i knew it, they do come from South Africa. Those bastards!

Luckily i never responded 8)
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Sat May 24, 2008 5:21 pm

no i meant with the ip trace and all that.. they live where they tell me
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Sat May 24, 2008 5:22 pm

ok lock this.
feel so stupid right now!
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Sat May 24, 2008 5:23 pm

Well, if you feel like you want to, then go ahead.

But, you have been warned :tongue9:

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Sat May 24, 2008 5:29 pm

In the future, keep this at Theopia.
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