| NamePros Regular Join Date: Nov 2006
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|  Email Lottery - What Gives?
The Email Lottery seems to be a virus that is going around aplenty these past several weeks. In the last 6 months, I have recived no less that 30 emails telling me that my email address was drawn in an 'email address lottery' and that I had won loads of cash, and I mean millions! And I am talking about US and Pound Sterling. The two most interesting ones stated that I won, in one instance, US$35,000,000 and, in the other instance, £25,000,000. The lowest ones I have seen were for about US$900,000 and £802,000. If I were to add up all my 'winnings' thus far, I would be richer by about US$1,800,000,000 and £980,000,000.
In all the cases however, the operators of the 'lottery' asked me for my name, marital status, sex, country, phone number, and a few other personal details. A few even said that I would have to send some money to them so that they can send me the money I 'won'. When I asked them why not take the money they needed from my winnings they replied stating that the winnings are in an escrow account that they cannot touch. Yeah, right! Like I was born yesterday! On top of that, they said that I can get a lump sum payment if I cannot wait to get all of my winnings over a period of time.
They will stop at nothing to get peoples money these days.
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Gammo, 2008 
