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Good start to the day...!

Had 2 emails this morning. One says I've won a million dollars, the other's from a nice African gentleman who wants to transfer 2 million dollars to my bank account as his government will confiscate it otherwise.

All I have to do is send them my full bank account details.

And some people say if it seems too good to be true, it probably is...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

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  • relic
    relic Posts: 2,153 Forumite
    Totally legitimate.

    I had a phone call the other week, they said the guy in the bank vault had suffered a heart attack, so couldn't steam press the notes, thus not allowing me to take any money from the cash machine. I handed over my bank account details, and now I can rest at ease that the steam press man is alive and well.
    Per Mare Per Terram
  • zaksmum
    zaksmum Posts: 5,529 Forumite
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    Wow. The steam press guy and his family will be eternally grateful to you
  • ailuro2
    ailuro2 Posts: 7,540 Forumite
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    hope you used the money for a bit of surgery - the offer for the life changing surgery probably arrived at the same time as the other good news - those 3 inches really will make a difference to you and your partner's lives.;)
    Member of the first Mortgage Free in 3 challenge, no.19
    Balance 19th April '07 = minus £27,640
    Balance 1st November '09 = mortgage paid off with £1903 left over. Title deeds are now ours.
  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    ailuro2 wrote: »
    hope you used the money for a bit of surgery - the offer for the life changing surgery probably arrived at the same time as the other good news - those 3 inches really will make a difference to you and your partner's lives.;)

    Only 3???

    Good grief if I took up every offer of surgery and viagra I'd be prodding the moon into a whole new orbit!!!.. and I'm not even a man!
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
    Mortgage-free Wannabee (05/08/30)
    6/6/14 £72,454.65 (5.65% int.)
    08/12/2023 £33602.00 (4.81% int.)
  • zaksmum
    zaksmum Posts: 5,529 Forumite
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    Do these things come in threes or something? Just had another one about a parcel waiting for me to release by sending an administrative fee...why isn't the spam filter dealing with them like it usually does?
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