I Won! I'm Rich!

Feb 25, 2007 12:50 am

Received this email today. It says I won a contest I didn't even enter! Wow, imagine that!

Of course, I'll need to send them a few grand to cover "taxes" and/or charges for "wiring" the money to my bank, before they can release the money. Yeah, right...

Email:

Dreamfield National Lottery<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />124B Arcadian Mall, Woodgreen<?:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />London, UK FROM: THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS,INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,REF: EALP/66-CAW662007 Dear Winner,We are pleased to announce you as one of the 6 lucky winners in the DREAMFIELD NATIONAL LOTTERY draw held on 23rd OF Febuary2007. All 6 winning addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 40,000international emails. Your email address emerged alongside 5 others asa 3rdcategory winner in this month's draw. Consequently, you have therefore been approved for a total pay of £450,000.00 Pounds( four hundred and fifty thousand pounds) only. The following particulars are attached to your lottery paymentorder:(i) Winning numbers: 30, 14, 29, 21, 48, 11(ii) Email ticket number: 163-0-3251(iii) Lotto batch number: 328-3GD(iv) File Ref. number: Please contact the underlisted claims officer as soon aspossible for the immediate release of your winnings:Mr Agnes AndersonFIDUCIARY AGENT,DREAMFIELD NATIONAL LOTTERY.please ensure you write to all these addresses bellow.Email: (I Removed These.) Tel No : (I Removed These.) Blah, blah, blah... (You get the picture.)