SPAM SPAM SPAM

It is all a spam. Liar. Recently, I kept receiving emails about me winning some lottery or whatsoever. The email is something like this:

Subject: ATTENTION: WINNER.......

U.K ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
The Marina Offices,
St Peters Yacht Basin,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England

(Customer Services)
FINAL NOTIFICATION

ATTENTION: WINNER

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of £500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand (British Pounds) held on the 1st of April,2008 in London UK. The selection process was carried out through random selection in Our computerized email selection system (ess) from a database of over 21,000 e-mail addresses drawn from which you were selected.

Contact our fiduciary agent for claims with:

Name:Mr.Scott Campbell
Email:claims_scottcampbelldept01@hotmail.com
Tell: +44 702 401 4563
+44 703 194 8289

TICKET NO: 8603775966738
REF NO: UK 200-26937
BATCH NO: 2007MJL-01

Fill the below:
1. Name: 2. Address 3. Marital Status: 4. Occupation: 5. Age:
6. Sex: 7. Nationality: 8. Country of Residence: 9. Telephone Number:

Congratulation!!
Sincerely,
Mrs.Anna Marthin
U.K ONLINE LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL

There is another one. You don't have to read all. Everything is just a story telling me how to get the money, how they gone through troubles to arrange the shipping of my money. Just read if you are interested. I laughed when I read this.

Subject: Hello

THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (I.M.F.)
WORLD BANK FACT-FINDING & SPECIAL DUTIES OFFICE
LONDON – UNITED KINGDOM OFFICE

Greetings to you.

I am Rev. Father Jones Maxwell Harth, a volunteer working with the UNICEF (United Nations International Children Educational Funds), which base on my good conduct supervising funds meant for the UNICEF, I was appointed voluntarily to work with the World Bank Fact Finding & Special Duties Office. I am writing you this letter because cool penny is better than millions of dollars. It is better for one to live and die poor honest man than a rich dishonest one.

I and the chief security officer (CSO) of this organization have arranged with an officer in computer section engineer Peter Cliff to bring out part of your total pending payment sum amounting to US$10 million. Why we did this is because according to information gathered from the bank/security computer, you have been waiting for a long time to receive your money without success. As I found out that you have almost met all the statutory requirements in respect of your pending payment, your problem is that of interest groups. Many people are interested in your payment, those people are merely doing paper works with you, and that explains why you receive fax and phone messages from different people everyday. In addition, we found out that some of the officials of the parastatals have been extorting a lot of money from you with the pretext of helping you receive your money. I can assure you that this may last for years yet nothing happens if you do not do away with those officers that you call your partners. Moreover, for security reasons do not tell anybody that you have your money until you receive cash at your doorstep.

The money is in a security-proof box weighing 75kg. Yesterday we went to four courier companies to make arrangements on how to ship them by courier to you. DHL, EMS, FEDEX, UPS all said that they must open the boxes for inspection by the customs before shipment. This is something we want to avoid because the box is padded with synthetic nylon and to open it, you have to cut the pad before you will meet the button that you will press to open the dial code-lock. There is no way you can open the box and be able to close it again because it was padded with machine. We told the courier services that the box contained film materials and when open will spoil the materials. We did not declare money because courier does not carry money.

Today a friend of mine who is diplomat disclosed to me that there is a security courier service they use to send diplomatic materials and information from one country to another. It has diplomatic immunity and consignment cannot be checked by any customs anywhere in the world. I have met the officials of the security courier service and concluded shipping arrangement with them, which they will commence as soon as i have your go-ahead order. The diplomat will help me so we do not have any problem. We have concluded that you must donate Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars (US$500,000.00) to any charity organization I designate as soon as you receive your money. To this effect, you will send us a promissory note for Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars (US$500,000.00) along with your address for sending the box by courier. Please maintain topmost secrecy as it may cause many problems if found out that we are using this way to help you. Do not ever tell anybody about this until you have your money. I want to help you because something in me is telling me that you are an honest person. When you conclude this and you send our promise, we will help to ship the final part of your money to you.

God be with us as we wait for your urgent respond.

Yours faithfully,

Rev. Father Jones Maxwell Harth.

Bla bla bla... all the bullshits...

These people are so uncivilized trying to cheat people's hard earn money. They are worst then beggars. Even worst than a thief. Although they are no difference as thieves but at least they won't use some organization or whatever name to cheat people. Some thieves have their reasons on why they steal but this spammers only sit in front of computer and write something to cheat people's money. Such a shame to them. Don't believe in everything from emails and SMS telling you that you won something. Get verification from the company itself. Call up or think, have you joined the contest or whatever reason that you deserve to win the money/prize.

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