What do you make of these emails?

**dorpis** · 06-17-2009 02:59 AM

Sound creppy to me.

Microsoft Award Team
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United A Kingdom.
Batch: 12/25/0340

Dear Winner

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of five
hundred thousand pounds(?500,000) from New Year Edition 2009
Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC,
WINDOWS LIVE & MICROSOFT, collects all the email addresses
of people that are active online, among the millions that
subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people
every Month as our winners through electronic balloting
System without the winner applying,we congratulate you
for being one of the people selected.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact your Claims Agent with immediate effect to
facilitate the protocol of your winning prize before the date
of Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her
Settlement Center. Prize must be claimed not later than 15
days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in
which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period
will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number...................12/25/0340
Reff number........................Ref:MSN-L/200-26937
Winning number....................YM09788

To begin your claim please contact our licensed and
accredited agent assigned to you

Mr. John Paul
(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44-702-402-6674

You are therefore advised to send the following information
to the claims agent to facilitate them and in order for them
to have access in proceeding with the transfer of your
funds to your nominated bank account.

1. Full name.........
2. Country.....
3. Contact Address...
4. Telephone Number....
5. Marital Status.....
6. Occupation......
7. Company........
8. Age.........

Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 15 days from
date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize
has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be
forfeited.

Congratulations!! once again.

Yours in service,
Mrs. Marry Cole
(Operation Manager)

And number two

FALCON HALFORD & ASSOCIATES
253 Falcon Court,
London EC4Y 1AA,
England.

I wish to notify you that late Engr. Jurgen Krugger made you a beneficiary to his WILL. He left the sum of Thirty Million,One Hundred Thousand Dollars (USD$30,100.000.00) to you in the Codicil and last testament to his WILL.This may sound strange and unbelievable to you, but it is real and true. Being a widely traveled man, he must have been in contact with you in the past or simply you were nominated to him by one of his numerous friends abroad who wished you good.

For more information contact me with my personal email address: [email protected]
Tel: +44 701 112 83 44

Yours in Service,
Falcon Halford Esquire.

That one said: THIS IS THE THIRD AND FINAL LETTER I"M SENDING YOU

**Invader** · 06-17-2009 03:14 AM

Scam. They are always scams.
They'll get you to give them some large sum of money "temporarily" until they can return the "prize money" to you, which never actually happens.

**Xyn** · 06-17-2009 04:01 AM

Yeah dude never believe any of those emails 99.99% of the time there all scams.

**Man of Steel** · 06-17-2009 04:24 AM

Damnit, I knew Engr. Jurgen Krugger was going to rip me off like this! He told me on our last treasure-hunting trip in the Ukraine that I'd be the beneficiary of his will if we found the Fifth Pachyderm. Which we did.

I trusted that no-good German!

**AmazeO XD** · 06-17-2009 04:42 AM

lol I like replying to the emails, because they think you're stupid enough to fall for it.

Then I run them around in circles.

**Keresztanya** · 06-17-2009 04:56 AM

I stopped reading it at the "MICROSOFT, WINDOWS LIVE, YAHOO" thing. Live and Yahoo would never colaborate.

**ClouD** · 06-17-2009 09:38 AM

It's totally legit, seeing as I'm the proud owner of several billion American dollars, and a few thousand banks, and have won the lottery 20+ times.

It's really easy, just send your credit card details back dude.

**nitsuJ** · 06-17-2009 11:29 AM

Marked as spam.

Delete.

**Kiza** · 06-17-2009 11:34 AM

I make of these emails several paperplanes, and I have a totally good time with my friends throwing paperplanes around.

I have some fun.

**Catbus** · 06-17-2009 03:49 PM

They send you a check for an outrageous amount of money like $40,000, and ask you for to send a $10,000 check immediately. You send the $10k and the $40k check bounces. Now they have your $10k and you're shit out of luck.

**Sentaku** · 06-17-2009 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Catbus

They send you a check for an outrageous amount of money like $40,000, and ask you for to send a $10,000 check immediately. You send the $10k and the $40k check bounces. Now they have your $10k and you're shit out of luck.

I would try taking the $10k they want from the $40k check they gave me

**Catbus** · 06-17-2009 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by Sentaku

I would try taking the $10k they want from the $40k check they gave me

From what my dad has always said, the $40k check won't clear, and the $10k is coming from your account.

**ElsiaStar** · 06-17-2009 10:42 PM

its a SCAM!!

me and my friend got this email from this guy named Tunde Lemo or something like that, he offered to give me a large amount of money and had a video clip of him packing the money in a suitcase. My friend actually gave him her address!! (nothing happened though)

A WEEK LATER...

there was a show on 60 Minuets about Tunde Lemo and how he had this huge scam to try to send you money or something.. I think the money was actually stolen..