Aren't I clever!, I didn't even enter it and yet I've just got this email to say I've won............yeah right  ::)

EuroMillions Lottery.
Plaza Mayor 36-38
Madrid,España.
Euro Millions
Lottery.

Sir/Madam,

CONGRATULATIONS: YOU WON €1,000,000.00.

We are
pleased to inform you of the result of EuroMillions Lottery, which was
held on the 24th, April 2006.
Your e-mail address attached to e-ticket
number: 05-32-45-45-53 (01-07) , with Prize Number (match 5): 116287612
drew a prize of €1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros).This lucky draw came
first in the 2nd Category of the Sweepstake. You will receive the sum
of €1,000,000.00 (One Million Euros) from our authorized bank.
Because
of some mix-up with sweepstake
prizes,including the time limited placed
on the payment of your prize:
€1,000,000.00, we advice that you keep
allinformation about this prizeconfidential until your funds:
€1,000,000.00 have been transferred to you by our bank. You must adhere
to this instruction,
strictly, to avoid any delay with the
release of
your funds to your person. This program has been abused severally in
past, so we are doing our best to forestall further occurrence of false
claims.
This sweepstake was conducted under the watchful eyes of 8,000
spectators. Your
e-mail address attached to e-ticket number 05-32-44-
45-50 (01-07)
was selected and; it came out first by an e-ballot draw
from over 250,000 e-mail
addresses (personal and corporate e-mail
addresses).
This program is sponsored by CFI to compensate faithful
internet suffers around the globe.
Congratulations for becoming one of
the few lucky winners.
With your permission, your e-mail will also be
included in the next sweepstake of €5Million.
You must claim your
prize: €1,000,000.00 not later than 10-days from the moment you receive
this e-mail.
In order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim from
the bank; please`contact them immediately, and quote your winning and
personal information now, and in all your correspondence with the bank.

Here is the contact information:
Bank: Banco De España.
Director:
Public Finance, Global Markets, Interest Rate and Currency.

Mr Julian
Alonso
Tel:+34-627-864-515
E-mail address:publicfinance@sagamail.com

Furnish them with the following:
(i). your name(s),
(ii) Your
telephone and fax numbers
(iii) Your contact address
(iv) Your winning
information (including amount won).

Congratulations.
Coordinator:
EuroMillions Lottery.
Gema Francisco.

Very good point !  ;D

Aren't I clever!, I didn't even enter it and yet I've just got this email to say I've won............yeah right  ::)

EuroMillions Lottery.
Plaza Mayor 36-38



Hey, wait a minute, I won this lottery too!  Isn't that a coincidence?  ;D

I love that, at the bottom of those e-mails, they warn you that it's necessary to keep all communications confidential.  Yeah.  Until they've cleaned out your bank account.  Then you can tell someone.

I had a friend recently call me to see if I thought it was legit.  She thought perhaps her financial worries were over.  I said, "Honey, don't quite your job."  How many people are falling for these scams?  :-\\

I love the ones that advertise about college degrees and there are so many misspelled words in it. They usually are addressed to Carlos asking him if he wants a college degree-the man has a PH.D.  :o :o




Cat

I get about 3 of those a week... same people, they just use a random name generator.

I get ones from some dude who says he is a lawyer, and that a long lost relative has passed on, thus I have inherited millions.  All I need to do is hand over my bank account number

Yeah, i'll get right on that ::)

^ Yeah I had one from some guy in Africa claiming he was a lawyer and had traced me from the internet  ::) and he knew of a long lost relative of mine who had been killed in a road accident - had left