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I have a really, REALLY weird E-mail that I never read.
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It's very strange and I got it a few months ago. It's titled this: Your e-mail attached to ticket number 219028657434 with Serial number 918735625 drew the lucky numbers of 21-70-81-82-99, which consequently won the lottery in the 1st category. You have just won yourself the sum of One Million EURO in the satellite softwâ€ÂÂ-
Then it cut off.It says that the sender is Dr. maria Anthony. I've never opened it because I think it's fake. I'm only 13 years old and I don't remember entering a lottery drawing!So is this fake?
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I don't bother reading those e-mails because they might just be a scam
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it is a scam, mark it as spam and delete it.
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Yes that's just Spam, I've recieved that years ago.By the way Peach_is_Awesome, long time no see, hope you forgive an asshole for being an asshole? :(
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you shouldn't trust e-mails which sender you do not know
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Hmm....Didn't need to ask this in the first place XD Thanks thoughP.S. Wow that was pretty fast. And I didn't come on much sorry ><
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I open up my emails like theres no tomorrow. Nope I dont have any personal info on my computer and no I havent had a virus in years. Maybe because my computer's so old the virusus aren't compatible
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Replying to #7
I don't got personal info on my own computer, either. And incompatible viruses....Nice advantage.
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I had an email from someone in India claiming I had one the Indian lottery.
I had won something like 167 Milliam pounds...
I looked at the email address.
[email protected]Damn... They could atleast get a believeable e-mail address...
I just replied to it, basically using a lot of curses, and telling them my mind.
They've never replied since. =D
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I got one of those once. I also received several invitations to enter into financial arrangements with various desposed wealthy nigerian land-owners, president's wives, diamond mine foremen and a lone cocoa plantation tycoon.
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haha yeah those are still around
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I don't know why, but I just love to see what the scammers come up with next. I've even seen some saying that people like Fidel Castro (oh come on) have died and left money for you.
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Dear Reader,Allow me the opportunity of presenting a commercial proposition to you that would be mutually beneficial. I got your name and contact from the heeeuge database of Register readers which they use to send unsolicited email and dob people in to their bosses for wasting company time on the web all afternoon when they get back from the pub.I consulted many sources of information on the web, including several search engines, a web self help utility, and 321 porn sites. They all agreed that you were a reliable person of good character apart from the fetish for donkeys and tomato paste. For this reason I feel that I can confide in you - and only you - my true identity. I am The PFY, otherwise know to you as the Pimply Faced Youth, assistant to the Bastard Operator From Hell.As you know, The Bastard is a very wealthy person, having stolen, lied, cheated and blackmailed his way into several dubious consulting positions, including the one he now holds with a large and very cash-rich company. In recent days, the Bastard Operator from Hell has gone on an extended holiday under the guise of searching the web for a secure version of Explorer, and is not expected back for several years.Before he left, he deposited a large amount of his wealth in a room in the basement of the company building, carefully labelled so as to frighten any inquisitive person from ever thinking of opening it. (I.e. "Audio Tapes - Larry Ellison on the Future of Computing, Bill Gates on Microsoft's Vision and Richard Stallman on Free Beer"). A conservative estimate of this wealth is several thousand British Pounds, with a street value of several thousand English Pounds, or several billion turkish lire (or a couple of trillion Turkish lire if you read this in a couple of weeks, allowing for devaluation).No-one apart from myself knows where this money is hidden as The Bastard was careful to wait until 4:58pm, when no-one was left in the building (and before night security clocked in) to put the money in place.I am now looking for a partner to help me invest these ill-gotten gains in high return stocks and bonds.I am humbly seeking your assistance in the following ways so that I can begin the transfer of this money to you to invest: * To serve as guardian of this money until I can transfer it (in suitcasefuls, so as not to attract attention) from it's storage.
* To make arrangements for my accomodation, meals and entertainment expenses, as it might be insecure for me to be seen my home until the transfer is completeIn return for your time and aid, I am fully prepared to give you half - that is 50% - of the contents of the locked briefcases when they have all been transferred from the company, to do with as you please. I am sure that you will agree that this is a most lucrative offer, and one which is unlikely to be made to just anyone.Should you be willing to partake in this venture and assist me in this undertaking, you can be assured that it will be concluded in a matter of a few weeks and with the utmost discretion. Any notification to the Inland Revenue authorities of the money is a matter up to you and you alone.I look forward to corresponding with you via email about this exciting opportunity in the near future - however, I would stress the need for security and discretion in this undertaking as my supervisor has a paranoia verging on ESP when it comes to losing any of his investments. Should he find out of the venture I am proposing, I am sure that his reaction would be both swift and vioasf;erio
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The typical format of e-mail spam :P
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Yep, that's spam alright, I get about 50 spam messages per day, such as "Buy our new Viagra product etc.".
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Replying to #15
I get that spam alot too... I wonder how they harvest our e-mails...
Does Seph sell our e-mails to those people? ;D
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I hardly get ant e-mails how come you get so many
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kamage · #16I get that spam alot too... I wonder how they harvest our e-mails...
Does Seph sell our e-mails to those people? ;D
Microsoft do if you have a hotmail address.
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I sometimes get these kinds of garbage on my yahoo mail account, that is if I forget to turn on the Spam guard
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so people are still trying to scam using email.......
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