Can't believe my luck!

[dave_beer_uk]

I got an e-mail today which must be one of the lamest scams I've ever seen. I've apparently won the 'Crester Winners' International lottery (despite never having taken part of course).

Your fund is now available for claim. Due! to the mix
up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award
strictly from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to your account.

I guess they'll just need my bank details now to give me the 15000000 Rand I've won......

To make it even more lame the e-mail cleary shows they've cc'd the e-mail to about another 1000 variations of my e-mail address.

I'm gonna be rich soon!

Dave

[yalborap]

I say get a random bank account, or anything similar that they'll take, and then give that to them. See if you actually get some money. It would be pretty funny to see the results.

[Devanshu]

I say get a random bank account, or anything similar that they'll take, and then give that to them. See if you actually get some money. It would be pretty funny to see the results.

My dad did that once. He opened a bank account w/ 50 bucks after he "won a lottery" for $615,000 and sent in the account info. A few weeks later, the people called him for the "processing fee" which was about $1000(since there wasnt enough money in the fake account). My dad told them "Tell you what, take 15 grand out instead of a thousand out of the amount I've won and send me the 600K". The person just hung up the phone.

[redwudz]

One of my favorites from a few years ago: My dad got a offer to buy into a Canadian lottery. $5 and they pool that together with everybody and buy a big stack of tickets. If they win, you get a percentage of the winnings. My guess, even if they win, they will never tell you. Another one: Lottery wanted a $5 application fee. In the info pack they said they did 60,000 mailings and they expected a 10% return. That's about $6000. The prize was $2000. They figured a $4000 profit minus their $1000 prepartion and mail cost. That's not a gamble for them, it's a smart business proposition. Unfortunately, a lot of seniors get sucked in by these scams.

[indolikaa]

Wow! That's £1,209,057.71!

Set up a dummy account like Devanshu's dad did, and let's see where this goes!

[bigshotceo]

One of my favorites from a few years ago: My dad got a offer to buy into a Canadian lottery. $5 and they pool that together with everybody and buy a big stack of tickets. If they win, you get a percentage of the winnings. My guess, even if they win, they will never tell you. Another one: Lottery wanted a $5 application fee. In the info pack they said they did 60,000 mailings and they expected a 10% return. That's about $6000. The prize was $2000. They figured a $4000 profit minus their $1000 prepartion and mail cost. That's not a gamble for them, it's a smart business proposition. Unfortunately, a lot of seniors get sucked in by these scams.

Reminds me about then a group of people actually pooled their money together and systematically won their state lottery (it was possible because the jackpot after taxes was high, there weren't a wide range of numbers (less possible combinations), and there wasn't any law against this kind of thing.)

[RabidDog]

Old wives tale redwudz, repeated by the feeble minded. 8)

[pacmania_2001]

There was a story on the net floating around of a guy that actually travelled to Nigeria to catch out these frauds. Can't remember the link but if I come across it I'll post it.

Quite an interesting read it was.

[ChrisX]

I remember receiving an email like that and the only problem is too good to be true.

I also found the "lucky email” as too common as shown to be a scam being received by the thousands worldwide every day.

I deleted the fake luck.

[dave_beer_uk]

I would reply but I'm concerned about the millions of crap spam I'll probably receive if I do.

I was tempted to reply to one before giving my name as Mr A Gullible-Bastard.

Dave