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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:24 PM
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I just won a million dollars in a Swiss lottery
Or so says my e-mail. Has anybody else got this spam?
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Darkseid69 Donating Member (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:25 PM
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1. kewl
Gimme a dollar
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rangerfan Donating Member (176 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:26 PM
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2. Cool. A coupla days ago I won a lottery in the Netherlands.
Then today a guy in Nigeria wants to share $7.1 million with me. Sounds like we've hit the jackpot.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:27 PM
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3. I am a Swiss lottery rep.
PM me your bank account number, your SSN, and your mother's maiden name.

Then I will get your $1 million winnings to you straightaway.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:29 PM
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4. Here's their addy
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:30 PM
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5. The Swiss speak several languages.
That link is, unfortunately, in none of them. Bad link! Bad! Link!
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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:32 PM
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6. I got a letter from Spain, twice...
..each time I won about $600K, just had to fill out the form and send it back....haven't done it yet, i want to open a Swiss bank account...and send the money there :hippie:
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:33 PM
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7. King Juan Carlos?
Is that you?
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:34 PM
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8. I e-mailed them and asked for a money order.
haha :)
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:38 PM
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9. Get them all the time.
Edited on Thu Aug-05-04 12:40 PM by RebelOne
They're just another variation of the Nigerian scam letters. If you checked the header, you will probably find out that it originated in Nigeria.
Here is one of my replies to them.

Dear Sir,

I send salutations from my country, the sovereign nation of Antarctica.

Now that I have carefully read your email, I cannot express to you the sheer scale of my incredulity.

I instantly considered your intentions to be criminal.

This is indeed a miracle. You actually chose little old me out of all the hundreds of millions of the world's other suckers.

However, I must respectfully decline your very kind offer, as I am already deliriously rich, due to my being an Internet tycoon.

I visited your beautiful country recently. I'm probably mistaken, but I am sure I saw your name on a wanted poster.

Anyway, I was so excited, I went out and purchased four oil refineries.

So you see, kind sir, I have very little use for the millions that you say I have won. There is simply no more room left in my already overstuffed Swiss bank accounts.

Now, I have just had a wonderful thought. Perhaps I could be of more assistance to YOUR fellow scammers.

Listen: why not simply provide me with all YOUR details (including bank account numbers, PIN numbers etc) and I will deposit heaps of lovely money into your account? There is no need for references, as I trust you implicitly. After all, you obviously have faith and trust in me.

Yours ever sincerely
Dr B. S. Hit
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:39 PM
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10. And yet, it's Iraq we bomb?
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:40 PM
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11. I get an email every day asking me to help some
Nigerian to help him collect on a will/estate, and I'll get a share of the pie.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-05-04 12:53 PM
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12. Yes, I get about 3 a day.
Below is one of the replies I send to them. Believe it or not, I actually got a reply back twice., as they thought I was serious.

And I also send them these links.

http://www.geocities.com/killemgoodpi/
http://www.personaldetails.freeserve.co.uk


Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for writing to me. I am Conchita and I am so poor that I have no last name, as my father could not afford one for me. We live on a small island in the South Pacific and are the only family that has lived here for the past one hundred years.

Unfortunately, we have eaten almost everything on the island except for the dirt and two skinny dogs that are too old to scratch fleas. Fortunately, we ate all the fleas so there are none left for the dogs to worry about.

I am so pleased that you have offered to send us all that money. We have not seen money for the last three generations as we have no place to spend it and no means of getting to a place where we could spend it if we wanted to. I can assure you that we will take excellent care of your funds and invest them wisely. Our plan for the money is as follows:

1. We want to build a deep-water port in Williwilli, our little lagoon here on the island.

2. We then want to bring in a barge with an electrical generator so that we can have electricity on the island once again. We haven't had electricity in over two hundred years because the last generator broke down and we have no parts to repair it.

3. We want to build a school here so the children can learn to read and write. It is really hard to create email messages with no electricity and no knowledge of reading or writing skills.

4. We then want to install a phone company so we can communicate with the outside world and meet more wonderful people like you and your blessed family.

5. We then want to build a satellite cable system so we can watch television and see all the latest fights in the world. We don't have those here and miss them very much. We think that we could probably hook up a computer to the cable or telephone lines so we could send email messages to our newfound friends when we get them.

6. We want to build a grocery store so we have a place to buy things like bubble gum and candy, something we have never had here.

7. We will then need to build a road from our cave to the grocery store so we can get there. Of course, we will need a car to drive on the road or there will be no point in having a road, will there?

8. If we get a car we will need gas and oil but maybe we could just take some from the electrical generator and save that money for a beauty salon, something we really need here. Have you seen the women around here? They are just awful looking.

9. Of course, we will have to build a church so we have a place to go and be thankful for the gifts you have offered us.

Once all these things have been completed, if there is any money left we would like to use it to build a house to live in. The hole we use for an outhouse is rapidly filling up since we began receiving your letters of appeal and we will need to move soon as the cave will be unbearable to live in during hot weather. Air conditioning in our new house would be nice too.

It is too bad that I am only eight years old. If I were older I could come and visit you if you sent me an airplane ticket and an airplane with pontoons on it so it could land in the lagoon. One of my grandchildren would like to come and visit you also, if you don't mind.

I shall patiently await the arrival of the next bottle with your message telling us when the money will be here. Thank you again, for your kind generosity; it is sincerely appreciated.


Conchita


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