I rarely win anything, but this morning...

Channel Hopper

without doing a thing except be an email user, I get this

FREE LOTTO AWARD.
Corporate Communications
London, United Kingdom
Date: 07/08/07


WINNING NOTIFICATION/ FINAL NOTICE
We happily announce to you the results of the FREE LOTTO
AWARDS,International online Sweepstakes program held on Saturday,
August 4th,2007.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number:
85219805814 132 with Serial number 8266/44 drew the lucky numbers:
11-05-33-40-72(bonusNo:17),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £1,119,118(One Million One hundred and nineteen thousand - one hundred and eighteen pounds sterling) in cash credited to file FCR/8343312345/11.This is from a total cash prize of £8,833, 826 sharedamongst the (7) lucky winners in this category i.e. Match 5 plus bonus.for this programs are selected randomly from over millions of email addresses of users submitted by their service provider e.g. YAHOO, MSN, AOL e.t.c. So don't be surprised on how we got your email address. It was submitted by your service provider.

Therefore 1,119,118 (One Million One hundred and nineteen thousand -one hundred and eighteen pounds sterling) would be released to you by your fiducairy agent. To file for your claim, please contact your
fiduciary agent with the details below:

Prize Claim Inquiries Contact:
Fiduciary Agent: Miss. Tracy Holland.
Email: dannyboermail2006@yahoo.com.hk
www.freelotto.com
FREE LOTTO AWARDS SERVICE OFFICER.
Your agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the
release of your funds as soon as you contact him and provide him with the below details.

*Name of Winner: *Address: *Nationality: *Sex: *Tel: *Occupation:
*Age: *Amount Won: *Lucky No: *Ticket No:

On behalf of me and the staff, we say Congratulations and thank you for
being part of an email address user.
Sincerely,
Mr. Walter Fribs.
Online Coordinators.

As soon as I get the funds into my account I will be takng all of Satellites.co.uk subscribers out for dinner.

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Channel Hopper

Holy cow, twice in a day

Lamborghini Promotions
30 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater
London, United Kingdom
Tel:+44 7031891172

Fax1 (UNITED KINGDOM): +44 203 031 1314
FAx2: (UNITED KINGDOM): +44 203 006 8906
FAX: (UNITED STATES): 1-210-579-6881
FAX: (CANADA): 1-905-248-3556
FAX: (NETHERLANDS): 31 167 72 5203
FAX: (SWIZZ): 41-91-260-68-57
FAX: (JAPAN): 81-3-4496-6227

Good day

Re: Award from Lamborghini Promotions

It is our greatest joy to inform you that in the promotional event of the year 2007 in conjuction with the POWERBALL LOTTO-wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office complex in United Kingdom and as a way of promoting our new lamborghini diablo 2006 model, your name , Coupon No.PBL242-6914-20 and email address came up as a winner in the online draw for the sum of 500,000$(USD).

Your email ID identified with Coupon No.PBL242-6914-20 and was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 1000,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 1000,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies.

Lamborghini company has approved a payout of your consult ation cash prize which will be remunerated directly to you by the official Payment Agency.
Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete
assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your consultation prize.
IMPORTANT ADVICE:
Please do not reply this email rather fill out the form below and fax to any of the fax numbers above.

(PLEASE FILL IN BLOCK LETTER)
FULL NAME.............................................. .................
RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS........................................... .
..............................................
DATE OF BIRTH.................................
GENDER........................................
ANY PHYSICAL DIABILITY........................
TYPE OF BUSINESS..............................
NAME OF YOUR COMPANY..........................
TYPE OF BUSINESS..............................
COUPON NUMBER.................................
HOW DO YOU INTEND TO RECEIVE YOUR CASH PAYMENT
(CERTIFIED BANKERS CHECK, BANK DRAFT, WIRE TRANSFER, OTHERS-STATE CLEARLY)
..............................................
YOUR HOME TEL NUMBER..........................
YOUR HOME FAX NUMBER..........................
YOUR OFFICE TEL...............................
YOUR OFFICE FAX...............................
VERY IMPORTANT
MOBILE TEL NUMBER..............................
RECONFIRM YOUR MOBILE TEL NUMBER...............

Congratulations again on your winning.
Alan Jones
Lamborghini promotions

Not quite sure how new a new 2006 Diablo can be, but beggars can't be choosers.

I can most likely fly all of you home after as well.

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dig deep

I guess it will be a drink after the meal as well ?

Congrats mate, well done

2cvbloke

I get at least 10 of those a week, by now, I should be richer than bill gates!!!

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T_G

WTF do they want, your bank details??

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I only believe stuff that comes straight from Mr. Horses mouth

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Analoguesat

Bluntly yes they do want your bank details. The folks who fall for these scams and contact them suddenly find there are all sorts of release fees, that need to be paid before they can get their "winnings"

Folks falling for the 419 Nigeria scams also get told they have to pay "bribes" to numerous officials to get the money out. Once the scammers have the bank details the accounts are emptied pronto.

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Analoguesat's message to the world Analogue forever!

jimbo

I'm surprised you open this sort of thing CH TBH. Via Mailwasher I would have bounced those.

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Jimbo

Channel Hopper

Didn't have to, Eudora has a standard viewing option pre opening.

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jimbo

Is that on the remote mail server or your PC?

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rolfw

First thing I do on all browsers is switch off the preview pane on the main inbox.

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jimbo

I do that too .... but with Mailwasher, as you know Rolf, you view the mail on the ISP's server and bounce/delete/accept without compromising your system.

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Jimbo

Channel Hopper

Eudora doesn't use any browser other than its own one.

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jimbo

I was just trying to establish whether you use an intermediary prog like Mailwasher or whether you were viewing emails on your PC before decding whether you need them?

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Jimbo

rolfw

Sorry, I meant mail browser/Email programme.

@ Jimbo, I stopped using Mailwasher, as it was too easy to delete good mail and the bounce feature simply created more mail with failed delivery notices. I now use Cloudmark for my Browser and I have black holes organised for my mail servers, which simply swallow anything other than correctly addressed mail.

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jimbo

I don't have any problem with Mailwasher pro. I don't get that many emails so I suppose it's easier for me. I don't accept many as I don't actually need many of those that do sit on the server.

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