Who was looking for a Nigerian scammer to mess with?

[Wcross]

I have one for you if you wish to play.

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From: Uk National Lottery

Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 6:20 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: 2007 LOTTERY PROGRAM.

UK-STAKE NATIONAL LOTTERY
184 WESTING FIELD DRIVE,S.W 4TH,
P.O.BOX 1010,
LIVERPOOL,
UNITED KINGDOM

NATIONAL WINNING NOTICE

Ref: UKS/9410R2/03
Batch: 12/28/DEM32

ATTENTION: WINNER,

You have been Selected in the UKNL 2007 Lottery Program.Our lottery program selection has finally been performed today which was held at the Liverpool office. UK Promotion is a joint Euro/America private lottery registered and organized in accordance with the World Lottery Regulation act.

We the National Lottery organizing committee are pleased to officially notify you of the status of your email application. An official notification of winning is hereby issued to you as your email promotion ticket randomly drew for the Lucky Numbers: 18.06.20.14.64.11.<15>Bonus Ball,which selected your email as the 2ND category of our lottery program you have consequently won the lottery program in the first batch.

Suffice to say here, We have officially approved a sum payout of £500,000.00 GBP to you as the lottery winner.This amount is from total prize cash of£2,000,000.00 British Pounds(GBP) randomly distributed among Three (4)international winners selected by our Lottery Random System Selection(LRSS).

Mr. Charles Richard
Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Claim/Agent Incharge.

VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM

FULL NAMES:
AGE:
SEX:
ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
PHONE NUMBER:
FAX NUMBER:
LUCKY NUMBER:
REF NUMBER:
COUNTRY:
PRESENT COUNTRY:

Sincerely,
Traci L. Fuller (Mrs)
Zonal coordinator
UK-STAKE NATIONAL LOTTERY.


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I got myself on the scam list cause I played with a guy saying I won the Australian lottery. It only would have took 1850.00 dollars for my end of the fee's and the 3.5 million was mine!
They will want you to send a western union money gram. The best way to play it if you want to REALLY mess with them is to send a couple of bucks (the minimum) and then place a hold on it. They will know there is money waiting for them but they won't be able to get it. You will have to pay the western union fee but if you enjoy messing with these thieves it may be worth it.

[DogandPony]

1. Oh good

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2. I believe it was Otherlander looking for a scammer to play with.

[Crazy Dave]

3. I always reply with:

"Oh thank you but I have so much money already", "Please give it to charity instead"

[Wcross]

4. I'll have to try that sometime. n/t

[Crazy Dave]

5. And if it's an email from Arafat's or one of Saddam's widows....

I tell them rather than sending me money, send me some nekkid pictures instead :woohoo:

[RebelOne]

7. This is one that I send to the scammers quite often.

And would you believe that two of them took it seriously?

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for writing to me. I am Conchita and I am so poor that I have no last name, as my father could not afford one for me. We live on a small island in the South Pacific and are the only family that has lived here for the past one hundred years.

Unfortunately, we have eaten almost everything on the island except for the dirt and two skinny dogs that are too old to scratch fleas. Fortunately, we ate all the fleas so there are none left for the dogs to worry about.

I am so pleased that you have offered to send us all that money. We have not seen money for the last three generations as we have no place to spend it and no means of getting to a place where we could spend it if we wanted to. I can assure you that we will take excellent care of your funds and invest them wisely. Our plan for the money is as follows:

1. We want to build a deep-water port in Williwilli, our little lagoon here on the island.

2. We then want to bring in a barge with an electrical generator so that we can have electricity on the island once again. We haven't had electricity in over two hundred years because the last generator broke down and we have no parts to repair it.

3. We want to build a school here so the children can learn to read and write. It is really hard to create email messages with no electricity and no knowledge of reading or writing skills.

4. We then want to install a phone company so we can communicate with the outside world and meet more wonderful people like you and your blessed family.

5. We then want to build a satellite cable system so we can watch television and see all the latest fights in the world. We don't have those here and miss them very much. We think that we could probably hook up a computer to the cable or telephone lines so we could send email messages to our newfound friends when we get them.

6. We want to build a grocery store so we have a place to buy things like bubble gum and candy, something we have never had here.

7. We will then need to build a road from our cave to the grocery store so we can get there. Of course, we will need a car to drive on the road or there will be no point in having a road, will there?

8. If we get a car we will need gas and oil but maybe we could just take some from the electrical generator and save that money for a beauty salon, something we really need here. Have you seen the women around here? They are just awful looking.

9. Of course, we will have to build a church so we have a place to go and be thankful for the gifts you have offered us.

Once all these things have been completed, if there is any money left we would like to use it to build a house to live in. The hole we use for an outhouse is rapidly filling up since we began receiving your letters of appeal and we will need to move soon as the cave will be unbearable to live in during hot weather. Air conditioning in our new house would be nice too.

It is too bad that I am only eight years old. If I were older I could come and visit you if you sent me an airplane ticket and an airplane with pontoons on it so it could land in the lagoon. One of my grandchildren would like to come and visit you also, if you don't mind.

I shall patiently await the arrival of the next bottle with your message telling us when the money will be here. Thank you again, for your kind generosity; it is sincerely appreciated.


Conchita

[Crazy Dave]

8. I do help real people with lists just like those through Kiva

Everything from buying an extra cow to putting a bathroom in their stores. One lady I helped out has already paid her loan back. She was selling clothes on a sidewalk and wanted to get her own store. There's also merchants who want to get inventory for their stores like children's clothes that people in their villages currently have to go forty miles or more to get.

www.kiva.org

[formerrepuke]

6. Warning: Messing with them will only hasten the distrubution of your email address...

..and soon lots (and lots, and lots) of other Nigerians (and everyone else with a scam) will be forwarding you these kinds of emails. I know this from experience.. had to cancel my account and start over.

[RebelOne]

9. You get an account at Yahoo. That's what I did.

Never, never use your main e-mail account.