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New email rip off (very convincing beware)

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  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
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    All posters, it might be an idea to edit the links on this thread. I don't know where they lead but could be iffy. I don't trust any of the scalliwags.

    I have edited the phone number on my link, but the URL is actually the "proper" BBC lottery website.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • BFG_2
    BFG_2 Posts: 2,022 Forumite
    Obviously big fans of BBC's DIY Rescue!!!!!!!!!
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    trisontana wrote: »
    I have edited the phone number on my link, but the URL is actually the "proper" BBC lottery website.

    Good, I just don't try any links on these but sure as hell someone will be tempted.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • Ebola monkey website is a brilliant one to go to. Scammers getting scammed themselves. Very funny
  • missymugwump
    missymugwump Posts: 1,171 Forumite
    GemJar wrote: »
    this is my fave this week

    "Hi.
    I would like to meet you.
    I am 30 years old.
    I have never been married, have no children.
    I'll give you my contact email to which you can write to me.
    [EMAIL="berginkavinka@yahoo.de"]berginkavinka@yahoo.de[/EMAIL]
    By email we can get acquainted with you better.
    I hope you write to me ...
    I'll wait."
    and a pic of a girl holding a rose... bless


    I guess which part of her anatomy was holding the rose would be a deciding factor :eek:
    "Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes." :cool:


    All truth goes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Then, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.
  • CHR15
    CHR15 Posts: 5,193 Forumite
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  • pitkin2020
    pitkin2020 Posts: 4,029 Forumite
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    Its not a scam. I have sent them money and they promise me I will get back. They also bought my car and sent me $3000 and all I had to do was send them back $1500 (tax evasion or something he said) and then pay the shipping company $2000 and the remainder is mine to keep, what a deal.
    Everyones opinion is the most important.....no wonder nothing is ever agreed on.
  • jennyjelly
    jennyjelly Posts: 1,708 Forumite
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    trisontana wrote: »
    Sincerely Yours,

    Mrs. Jodie Prenger,
    Lottery Presenter/ Coordinator.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/lottery/
    [/I]


    Note the contact name "NICK KNOWLES".

    And I'm pretty sure that Jodie Prenger was the lady who won the 'Oliver' audition show last year!
    Oh dear, here we go again.
  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
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    edited 19 March 2010 at 4:40PM
    Yet another stupid lottery scam email, As you see, for some reason this so-called Canadian Lottery is being run from a non-existent address in "Nottinghamshire Essex" and the claims agent is a church minister:-

    Canadian Lottery (Lotto lore)
    Headquarters: 1b, Bevon Court Carlton
    Nottingham shire NG4 1SQ Essex
    United Kingdom.


    Dear Winner,

    We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer
    Balloting.This is a Millennium Scientific Computer Game in which email
    addresses were selected at random, all participants were selected
    through a computer ballot system drawn from over 100,000 company and
    50,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world. It is a
    promotional program aimed at encouraging internet users; therefore you
    do not need to buy ticket to enter for it and on that regards, the
    Canadian Lottery Board wishes to inform you that your email address
    have won the sum of $850,000.00USD (Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousand
    Dollars) in cash credited to file with:

    REFERENCE NUMBER EAAL/9080118308/2010.
    WINNING NUMBER : 2 6 20 23 38 45 Bonus 24
    BATCH NUMBERS : B7898 8798 2456 190

    To claim your winning prize you are to contact the appointed claims
    agent below as soon as possible for the immediate release of your
    winnings with your full below details.

    REV. DEREK MILTON (Claims Agent)
    Email: jamesken12@gmail.com
    Contact Phone Number:+xxxxxxxxxxxx

    1) Your Full Name:
    2) Contact Address:
    3) Tel/Mobile Number:
    4) Occupation:
    5) Sex:
    6) Age:
    7) Nationality

    Note: Any prize not claimed on or before 15days from the date of draw
    will have his or her prize forfeited and terminated. Please make sure
    you send all your winning information to: jamesken12@gmail.com on
    receipt of this email.

    Congratulations once again from all our staff..

    Mrs Anna Edward
    Secretary General,
    Canadian Lottery Program.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • epatolles
    epatolles Posts: 192 Forumite
    does no one ever sent them fake info back? lol
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