Tuesday, May 15, 2007

You've got mail!


I opened my hotmail account today only to find millions of dollars being awarded to me ...

If anyone wants a share of my fortunes, read further for more details :D

"YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS WON THE LOTTERY AWARD 2007.

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computerballoting sweepstake held toady 10th APRIL 2007. This is a millennium scientific computer game in which email addresses were used. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users; therefore you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it.
Your email address attached to ticket star number (45407) with serial number 51622 drew the EUROMILLION lucky numbers 3-18-40-40-76 which consequently won the draw in the Second category. You have been approve for the star prize of $ 950,000.00 (Nine Hundred And Fifty Thousand dollars. Only) CONGRATULATIONS !!!
Your email adress has brougt to you this unexpected luck."

---- Ya Right! -----

" DRAWS NOTIFICATION !!!
Ref Number: NL/351/499
Batch Number: NM/207161/WOPDRAWS FOR CATEGORY "B"
Attn: Winner,Congratulations as we bring to your notice, the results of the second Category draws of the last quarter of EURO STAATLOTERIJ which you emerged as a winner under this Second Category, which is part of our promotional draws. The draws were officially released on the 4th of May, 2007."

---- Second here also!!! Can't seem to win even a fake lottery.-----

"DR ATIKU BELLO
The Manager of Audit & Accountancy Dept.
African Development Bank/A.D.B.
Ouagadougou,
Burkina-Faso.
TEL.+226 70 4032 85.

( READ CAREFULLY AND KEEP SECRET) Greeting, and how are you doing?I hope fine.Please let this my message donot be a surprise to you because i got your information and lay trust in youbefore i contacted you.I am the MANAGER OF AUDIT & ACCOUNTANCY DEPARTMENT ofour bank and i decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum of TWENTY TWO MILLION,THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS($22,300,000.00).This is an abandoned fund that belongs to the one of ourbank foreign customers who died along with his completely family on 25th oct,2002 in a plane crash disaster.

It is clearly stated in our BANKING FOREIGN POLICY and signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed by the NEXT OF KIN till the period of SIX years starting fromthe date when the beneficiary died, the money will be transferred into the BANK TREASURY as an unclaimed fund. Besides,it is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of BURKINA FASO to make the claim of the fund. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim andtransfer of the fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased.
When the fund is transferred into your account,FOURTYPERCENT(40%) will be for you in an assistance and in provision of the bank account,while SIXTY PERCENT (60%) will be for me.
If you are really sure of your integerity, trustworthy and confidentiality, reply with your contact necessary for the transfer and call me as you so that i will let you knowthe steps to follow in order to finalize this transaction immediately.I will be waiting for your urgent reply."

----If I am sure of my integrity..wtf.. !!---------

"Salam Aleikum

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your overseas account the sum of (10.5M USD)Ten million five hundred thousand United States Dollars from one of the Prime Banks here in Dakar Senegal.
I am Mr Desmond Koffi (Bsc,Msc) the Auditor General of one of the prime banks here in Dakar Senegal , during the course of our auditing , I discovered a floating funds in an account opened in our bank since 1982 and till date no body has operated on the account and after going through old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died long ago in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a[Heir/WILL], hence the floating of the funds and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. The owner of the account was a foreigner , Engr.Sam .A. Taha, an estate consultant .
Therefore, with a personal conviction of trust and confidence, I wish to contact you as a foreigner, to stand as a relative, thus I can work out the release of the funds , No other person in the office knows about the account, please be assured of the risk free, I'm the one that will work it out , all I need is your cooperation.
At the conclusion of this project , I propose a joint investment of an equal partnership to you or we may share it in a ratio of 45% for you and 55% for me. One more thing please; I beg you don't consider this against moral justification , they are many other aspects of life we may contribute with this funds to help the less privileged and the needy in a society than having it shared as an unclaimed bill among Government PLEASE .
I look forward to your earliest response.
Yours Truly
Mr Desmond Koffi"

-----Ever wondered why these originate from Africa??-----

I wonder why they have sent me this crap? Do they think I am a fool?

Do people EVER fall for this? What do you guys say?

Cheers,
TLT


7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not only Emails , we get Posts too :-)....so the rule is Ignore n chillax madi!!

Ankit said...

dude people do fall for this kinda thing too....

refer to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_scam

Rai said...

Use the golden rule: IGNORE! IGNORE! IGNORE!

Anonymous said...

heylo..ive been reading ur blog for quite a considerable time but never commented :P .
Really like the way u write and wud luv to be a regular here :)

And yes,many ppl fall for such mails.These mails re sent not frm africa but delhi :D ..and ppl are askd to pay sum 20-40000 rupees so that Crores :P can b transferred to thr accounts and they do so! Poor Fools :P!

Neways,gudluck!

-Deepa!

Rosh said...

#Sumeet - Bro, I am reminded of the lottery, that you won, which asked the winner to dial a premium number @ 6.5 pounds per minute. :D

#Ankit - Tnx for the link. And its a sad to know that people have become victims to these scams.

#Rai - Tnx for the Golden Rule. This rule is amazing. It actually works wonders in so many situations.

#Deepa - Hello ji ;) If you have been following my blog for quite some, then you are already a regular :P
Anyways I extend you a formal welcome :)
It's weird to imagine Delhi being the hub to such hoax mails.
And I really feel sorry for the 'Poor Fools!'. The hunger for money makes people take foolish decisions which they regret for the rest of their life.

Priyankari said...

OMG! I havent received any such spams till date thankfully! No other ways than to ignore.

Anonymous said...

People should read this.