Hey look, I've won a Spanish lottery....





EUROPE ELGORDO

SWEEPSTAKE

LOTTERY/ INTERNATIONAL

MADRID SPAIN.

ATTENTION:

AWARD NOTIFICATION; FINAL NOTICE

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today, 14TH DECEMBER 2005 of winners of

the EUROPE ELGORDO SWEEPSTAKE LOTTERY/ INTERNATIONAL, PROGRAMS held on 25TH

NOVEMBER, 2005.

Your email address is attached to ticket number 023-0148-790-459, with serial number 5073-11

drew the lucky numbers 43-11-44-37-10-43, and consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay of US$1,000,000:00

(one million united states of america dollars) in cash credited to file REF NO.

EESW/25041238013/03.

This is from total prize money of US$80,400,000.00 shared among the

seventeen international winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from a collation of frequent

internet users from all over the world from Australia, New Zealand, America,Europe, North

America,Africa, middle east and Asia as part of International Promotions Program, which is

conducted bia-annually.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Your fund is now deposited with a Security company insured in your name. 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.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by participants of

this program. We hope with a part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes

US$1.3 billion International Lottery.

To begin your claim, please you are to provide the below details to

this commission via email to Mr RAUL CHREST, FOREIGN SERVICE MANAGER,

MADRID SPAIN, {raulchrest@walla.com}.

For due processing and remittance of your prize money to a designated

account of your choice and to enable the speedy evaluation and

processing of your winnings. we advice that you adhere

strictly to procedures, to avoid any disqualifications and

subsequent cancelation

1. your full names

2. your full home / office address

3. direct telephone/fax numbers

4. occupation / age

5. next of kin

6. amount won

7. lottery date

The above detailed information will be absolutely neccessary for the processing of your payment

cheques,drafts or wire transfers.

Please note that this winning is valid for THREE WEEKS and failure to issue claims after this period

will automatically void your payment. Remember to quote your ticket number, serial number and

lucky number in your future correspondence.

Furthermore, should there be any change of your address, do inform your claim agent as soon as

possible.

Congratulations once again from all our staff and thank you for being part of our promotions

program.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs. Alexanderia Reyes

N.B. Any breach of confidentiality on the part of

any of our winners will result to disqualification.

SORRY FOR THE LATE INFORMATION THANKS

Mrs Alexanderia Reyes

PROMOTION MANAGER

EUROPE ELGORDO PROMO LOTTERY COMPANY

MADRID SPAIN

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Now some cynical people might say it's a fraud scheme. Sheesh!



But you know what? I'm just gonna write back to them and copy and paste their replies to you in this thread. :)

I WON A FREE XBOX360!



I missed the part of the mail where you gotta send your bank account PIN to a guy in Nigeria.

Hmm that reminds me... Recently I sold a PSP on ebay (my father won it at some business raffle and wanted me to sell it) and here are 2 emails I got:



dir_bush4000 is a potential buyer.



Hello seller, I am Mr Bush am also one the director of universal electronic store in new jersey, we are interested in buying your item which you placed on advert for sale. the item is needed very urgent in a ware store in west Africa ,the demands of the item is all right,so we will like to know the final price on it...shipping will be handle by us with our store shipping courier account i will like to know the price you are ready to sell the

item excluding the shipping fees,and our mode of payment will be bidpay which is a home delivery money that will be brought to your address by bidpay agent to your residence so. reply us asap in order to make the payment and i will also like to know if the item is can be release upon our payment confirmation because we dont want any delay on the item.Thanks and try to send your real name and full address and your

email address to us with your cell phone number so we await your response soonest.

thanks Mr Bush





Question from mrpeterjohnson16

hello ,

AM a navel officer based in canada i will like to buy this PSP for my grandson on his birthday this xmas month .HE has been thing me about the PSP and i promise to get it for him.He is working in Nigeria in the hospital .I will pay through the BIDPAY MONEY ORDER as it faster and get approved max of hour.Bidpay is very reliable and all you need do for a payment to be cleared. SO just send to me ,your full name ,street address zip code and vaild email address for confirmation of payment from bidpay .(and all the proper detail needed for payment),with all this ,once payment is made and approved bidpay delivery will bring the money to you door . I will like it to him before the 20 december as a surpise to him . Thanks i will be very gratefull .can i offer you $390 for the PSP.





This is why I never sell stuff on ebay anymore