Oh Look! I've Won a Million Euros!

The e-mail greeted me this morning:

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT:‏
From:
Mr Rumford Nigel John (contact_notice2008@cox.net)
You may not know this sender.
Sent:May 22, 2008 12:18:40 AM
To:

FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT:POWERBALL E-MAIL LOTTERY AWARD INTERNATIONALPROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPTNOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!BATCH NO: PBL/67189098011/245679/1109REF. NO: PBL/11278998789/908796//1109

43 North End Road,
West Kensington,
London W14 8SZ

You have been approved to claim of total sum of 1,000,000.00 euros(one million euro).

Which your email address won in the 2008 Euro ballot held in london,All participants were selected through a computer ballot system draw from Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies and 3,000,000.00 individual email addresses and names from all over the world.You have just won yourself the sum of ONE MILLION EURO in thesatellite software email lottery.

PLEASE SEE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR REF AND BATCH NUMBERS IN YOUR Correspondence TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT, Mr JEFFREY RICE.

CONTACT NAME:JEFFREY RICE CITY/ COUNTRY: LONDON, ENGLAND.EMAIL:powerball1238@live.comTELEPHONE:+4470 1112 1986+4470 3194 2847

President.Mr Rumford Nigel John
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From the President? OMG it must be true then! It wasn't even in my Junk Mail!

Have the Nigerians finally received all those inheritances from dead rich uncles that they can now afford to give all their $$$ away in a Lottery?

Did you win too? For those of you who aren't hip to proper grammar, you might want to click that link first. Also notice in the above E-mail, the "To:" field is left blank. That will be your first hint that it's an en masse message to thousands, not just you. I also couldn't help but giggle a bit for their penchant forrunning twowords together.

As for me, I'll be sending my E-mail here. Every person that does helps innocent people from being scammed any further. While I am able to spot a scam from a million electrons away, many are still not aware of this sort of "Lottery Phishing" scheme and it's good to get the message out.

Too bad... I really could have used a Million Euros... :P



BNL'S Performance of "If I Had A Million Dollars"
1996 T In The Park Festival, Scotland.