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Another "winning" email...

This is to notify you that you have been chosen By the Board of trustees of the
above International organization as one of the final recipients of a Cash
Grant/Donation for your own personal,education and business development.On this
note, Based on the random selection exercise of internet websites and millions
of Super market cash invoices worldwide you were selected among the lucky
recipients to receive the award sum of US$850,000.00. You are to contact the
events manager on or before your date of Claim,
These are your identification numbers:Batch number.....................ECW
09102XN,Reff number.......................ECW35447XN
Winning number...................ECW09788
These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to contact
the events manager, send your winning identification numbers to him,to enable
him verify your claims.

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Mr.Brian Udeh
E-mail: ecowas_dispatchoffice@yahoo.de
Tel: +2348036543029
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Comments

  • smudger1964
    smudger1964 Posts: 683 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Does anyone really fall for this nonsense some people are sooo gullible
  • Someone must, otherwise these emails wouldn't be going around...
    "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
    -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It's been estimated by the DTI that hundreds of millions of pounds are taken off people every year with these scams.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • Heinz
    Heinz Posts: 11,191 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    Name:Mr.Brian Udeh
    E-mail: [EMAIL="ecowas_dispatchoffice@yahoo.de"]ecowas_dispatchoffice@yahoo.de[/EMAIL]
    Tel: +2348036543029
    Now this has just got to be genuine - the prize is in American dollars but the phone number is Nigerian and the e-mail address is German.

    What on earth could be wrong with it?
    Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.
  • dagrowler
    dagrowler Posts: 254 Forumite
    i bet my bloke would fall for that.

    he had a pop up the other day that said "you owe $20 for subscriptions please enter your credit card details". Guess what he did!?! :confused:
    _____________________________________________
    I like money
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