{"id":4004,"date":"2007-12-17T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/congratulations-you-won-a-lottery-you-didnt-enter-and-inherited-money-from-someone-you-didnt-know-all-in-one-day\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T11:19:00","slug":"congratulations-you-won-a-lottery-you-didnt-enter-and-inherited-money-from-someone-you-didnt-know-all-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/12\/congratulations-you-won-a-lottery-you-didnt-enter-and-inherited-money-from-someone-you-didnt-know-all-in-one-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations! You Won A Lottery You Didn&#8217;t Enter And Inherited Money From Someone You Didn&#8217;t Know, All In One Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Really, how stupid do these spammers think people are? Would anyone send their personal information to someone who claims a dead guy in Nigeria left them money, or they won a UK lottery they didn\u2019t give their e-mail address to? Would anyone believe that the representative of the National Lottery in the UK has a Yahoo! e-mail address in Hong Kong?!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the text of the two e-mails:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">___________________________<\/div>\n<p>\u2014<br>The National Lottery<br>P O Box 1010<br>Liverpool, L70 1NL<br>UNITED KINGDOM<br>(Customer Services)<br>Ref: UK\/9420X\/68<br>Batch: 074\/05\/ZY369<\/p>\n<p>FINAL NOTIFICATION<\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to inform you today that the 15 December 2007<br>about the result of the Winner of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE<br>PROMO PROGRAMME, lucky numbers: (12) (22) (25) (43) (46) (49) (10<br>bonus no.),<br>Visit the Online Website for your Result<br>http:\/\/www.lottery.co.uk\/results\/<\/p>\n<p>All participants for the online version were selected randomly from<br>World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from<br>over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed<br>online. This promotion takes place weekly<\/p>\n<p>You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of \u00a31,500,000<br>(One Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to<br>file KTU\/9023118308\/03. To file for your claim, please contact our<br>claims<br>agent;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kate Moore<br>Email:kateuk2007@yahoo.com.hk<br>Provide her with the informations below:<br>1.Full Name:<br>2.Full Address:<br>3.Marital Status:<br>4.Occupation:<br>5.Age:<br>6.Sex:<br>7.Nationality:<br>8.Country Of Residence:<br>9.Telephone Number:<br>10. mode of claims\u2026 DELIVERY BY COURIER OR BANK TRANSFER<br>Good luck from me and members of staff of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.<\/p>\n<p>Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n<p>Richard K. Lloyd<br>Online coordinator for UK NATIONAL<br>LOTTERY,<br>Sweepstakes International Program.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">________________________________________<\/div>\n<p>From: The Manager,<br>Inter-Continental Bank Plc<br>Lagos-Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>Dear Beneficiary,<\/p>\n<p>This message might meet you in utmost surprise however it\u2019s just my<br>urgent need for a foreign partner that made me contact you for this<br>transaction. I got your contact during my search for a reliable, trust worthy<br>and honest person to introduce this transfer project with. My name is<br>Mr. John Blessed.I am the manager of Inter-Continental Bank Plc.<\/p>\n<p>I seek your co-operation in transferring the left over funds US$9.5M of<br>one of my bank deceased client DR.Mark A Robert who died in the<br>charter plane which crashed in the Kenyan city of Sumburu along with his<br>family on 21st July, 2003. You can confirm the genuine of the deceased<br>death by clicking on this website:<br>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/WORLD\/africa\/07\/20\/kenya.crash\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>I am inviting you for a business deal because as an officer of the<br>bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to<br>request for your assistance as a foreigner to receive this money into<br>your bank account. I intend to part 40% of this fund to you while 60%<br>shall be for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk<br>involved in this.<\/p>\n<p>It is going to be a bank-to-bank transfer to your nominated bank<br>account anywhere you feel safer. All I need from you is to stand as the<br>original depositor of this fund.<\/p>\n<p>Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of my mutual<br>business Endeavor by furnishing me with the following;<\/p>\n<p>1. Your Full Names<br>2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.<br>3. 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