WOO HOO!!! I WON THE LOTTERY!!!!

Hey guys,

I won the English lottery or some thing. I am to recieve 2.5 MILLION pounds. I take it they mean the money and not a few tons of B.S. This is the latest email I got asking for money. Of course I gave them my address, phone number, and bank account name and number. However, its funny they didn't ask for the routing number. By the way, does anyone know how much 2.5 million pounds is worth in american? I wonder how many ak's that will get me? Then, I will have a pile of them bigger than all you guys' ak's put together a few times over!!! I should enter lotteries and sweepstakes more often.
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British Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 TANFIELD ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON

Ref: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304

Date: 7/02/2007

& nbsp;
Dear Winner,

CONGRATULATIONS! This is to inform you that you have
been cleared a winner of the BRITISH LOTTERY
International program. I am happy to inform you that i
have forwarded your Original Certificate and your
Certified bank cheque to our affiliate transferring bank/payment centre for the transfer process of your winning prize to commence.
Find below the details of the payment centre.

BENOY COMMERCIAL FINANCE BANK.
NAME: John T. Smith
(FOREX ALLOCATION UNIT MANAGER)

EMAIL: <a>bcfb_online1@accountant.com</a>
TEL: +44-703-194-6840
TEL: +44-701-112-7970
TEL: +44-709-468-9358
FAX: +44-709-286-2226

You are adviced to send the payment centre a mail to
their email address for further details required to commence
the transfer process of your winning prize to your nominated account.

While contacting the bank, you are required to quote the web order number below as the subject on your email while contacting the payment centre for your claims to be honored and given instant attention.

ORDER NUMBER: VL231282

Note: You will be required to open an account with the bank to enable your winning cheque be deposited for onward transfer to your local account be effective. You are to Quote your complete Names, Ref/Batch
Numbers and your direct phone number correctly to avoid any complications. Do keep updated always on your dealings communications with the bank.

Once again i say congratulations and always inform me
with your dealings with the payment centre.



Thanks,

Mr. Leroy Banks
Fiduciary Claims Agent.

BRITISH INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY
COPYRIGHT © 2006 ALL RIGHT RESERVED.


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I sent them my information they requested by email like they asked
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Dear Charles Soludo,

Web OrderNo:VL231282

We are in receipt of the transfer form with the informations required for the swift transfer, thank you.
For the opening of your account we require a copy of your passport photograph, and £455.50 (Great Britain Pounds), this is because we cannot open the account with your winning cheque.

The amount (£455.50) will be used as a deposit to open an account in your name where your cheque will be deposited, from hence your funds shall be transferred immediately to your local bank account.

You are to send the amount via Western Union Money Transfer (WUMT), in the name of our accountant in charge of Western Union Pick-ups. Below is the information of the accountant.

FIRST NAME: JORGINA
LAST NAME: DUNCAN
ADDRESS: 19 High Street, Lewes, BN7 2LN

Details of your payment slip and a copy of your passport photograph should be scanned and sent to us via email attachment for confirmation, or details provided via email messaging.

Immediately after the transfer has been successfully conducted in benefit of your local account, the aforementioned account would be closed down and your deposit of £455.50 refunded accordingly.

For further questions, do call or email us for guidelines. Thank you.


Many Thanks.


John T.Smith
Forex Allocation Unit Manager
Customer Support
Benoy Commercial Finance
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Benoy Commercial Finance. 19 High Street, Lewes
East Sussex, BN7 2LN

I am in want of this mones. Why do I have to speak to so many persons?? What is problem? Please, Send Mones in small bills to me soon. I can not give $455 to you. This is wrong. No mones I have to give you to open bank account. Please, deposit check in account and then it will have $455 or whatever you need to take. If you can not open account, Please send cash to me. I prefer small bills. Please advise customs department of large sum of mones and why you send to me in courier. Why me talk to John T. Smith if you not person in bank of England? Please, no joke and give mones to bank of England, take $455 and give me mones. Tell you what, you lend me $455 and I reward you hansomly, yes? I give to you $5000 back. Give address where to send mone and I airmail check to you for $5000. Go very fast to you yesterday. Many thanks to you.

Prof. Charles Soludo

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Now, if you all will excuse me. I must go into the bathrooom to cackle, chuckle and laugh my ass off. http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g257/3_weelin_geezer/smileys/laughinguntilexplode.gif

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I found a guy that is supposed to be 'him' and sent it. Lets see if they take this photo or if they insist on the passport photo.

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I didn't read all of the above, but it sounds like a scam to me. :sad_small

I didn't read all of the above, but it sounds like a scam to me. :sad_small

I remember seeing this somewhere listed as a scam. I just don't remember where?

Of course it is. No way I am going to wire to someone I don't know 455.50 clams of any denomination. I will of course send them COPIES if they want. With the back upside down or something. Mr Soludo is just a straw man from this bank of Ghana and apparantly they do not know of him yet so I figger I would have some fun. I asked them to send check to me fast-yesterday in a non attention getting envelope. Lets see what happens. :)

Listen to this shit. I had some dumbass from Africa send me a check for 3500 dollars for a stove i was selling. he wanted me to send the extra 3000 dollars to an address in Holland. The check was so damn fake i bet it would of bounced off the ground.

So, what did you send him?

And yet people still fall for this stuff. Somebody in Nigeria is living pretty well:

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZLDBDYY1XH5FEQSNDLQCKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197000242

The former treasurer for Michigan's Alcona County has been arrested and charged with allegedly embezzling $1.2 million in public funds, some of which he sent to Nigerian-style "419" e-mail (http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=e-mail&x=&y=) scammers.

Thomas Katona, 56, was arraigned in district court last week on 10 felony counts, including embezzlement and forgery, and could face a maximum sentence of 104 years in prison.

According to Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, Katona directed eight unauthorized wire transfers of county monies, totaling $186,500, while he was visiting London in late 2006. Six of those transfers were to overseas banks known to have connections with Nigerian fraudsters.

The so-called "419" con, named after the relevant section of the Nigerian penal code because many of the scams originate in that West African country, often starts with an e-mail claiming that the sender has come into a large sum of money. The fraudster needs help in laundering or obtaining the funds, however, and promises the recipient a piece of the action for his or her help, which may include cash payments as evidence of good faith or to speed up the process.

An investigation revealed that Katona had also wired $72,500 of his own money in June to the same accounts.



He was repeatedly warned by bank officials that they suspected he was wiring money to accounts linked to the Nigerian scam. Katona ignored these repeated warnings, said Cox.

A December audit (http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=audit&x=&y=) of the Alcona County records showed a shortfall of $1.23 million, about 30% of the county's $4 million annual budget.



The embezzled monies came out of county investment funds and a revolving tax account, the Alcona County Review (http://www.alconareview.com/Copy%20January%2024.pdf), the county's weekly newspaper, reported Wednesday.

"Public officials who violate their oath will be held accountable by my office," Cox said in a statement. "The citizens of Michigan should rest assured that public officials who mishandle public monies will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." Katona, who served as county treasurer from 1993 until his dismissal in November, remains in custody and faces a preliminary hearing Jan. 31.

"Cheryl Peterson, editor and publisher of the Alcona County Review, said Katona had been convicted of a misdemeanor while doing bookkeeping work for a private company several years ago.

"This is a tremendous blow to a small community where we trust our politicians," she said."

Looks like the lot of them are ripe for the 419'ers :rolleyes:

I saw something exactly like this on the news, The reporter called the numbers, and the cops traced the call. The reported called again, using the scammers real name, he started swearing at the news guy on the phone. It was funny. I think it was problem solvers.

My partner and I played with a gang from Nigeria for about three weeks,,,back and forth,,,back and forth. We represented ourselves as Bill and Hillerary Clinnton. The idiots didn't catch on so we went to town...
We orginally stole the idea to play with these dubs from a guy who actually got to the point of having the scam artists meet him in Holland at a certain street, date and time with thousands to transfer so he could get his millions. The funny thing was he picked a street with a street cam up on a telephone pole and was able to record that to his web site showing these scums walking back and forth waiting for him to show up, he was sitting in Omaha at the time. Give it a try next time, they are usually using teen agers with limited english so it can be pretty fun.

So how do you get to that site that shows the streetcam(s)? I'm not so sure they will be emailing me again. I got a notice that someone had found a different helper in indonesia and to thank me for my attempt to call yet another someone to give me the 1.3 he had so generously left for me for nothing. Ya, Thanks for 'nothing'.

I get these emails all the time .

Hey 3Wheelin:
The guy who ran the web cam stunt used one of the street cams that are all over Holland. webcamplaza.net has a huge list of active cams. If I remember correctly the guy built this big story about how he was an international business man and refused to meet in Nigeria as they wanted. A bunch of Americans who were stupid enough to fall for this crap have been pretty badly beaten and robbed when they went to actually try and collect. Anyways this guy insisted on meeting them in Europe and wove the tail. Great stuff, wish I could remember the web site.
Good luck, if you can string them along keep is updated
take care

All I get is buy generic Viagra emails!!!!

SCAM.....this email is well known bull shit. Dont give them your info at all cause you'll be sorry.

of course its a scam. They told me all the fees and taxes were paid but I still had to give them either $700 and change upto $938 or something like that for overnight delivery. There are three kinds of people in this world. Those that can add and those that can't. I gave them the address to a porn shop. :) I do not hear from them again. I wonder if they call that place in San Diego? Its fun. I like to talk to sales men. Makes me think of that crazy lady that used to call the naval station just to read to you in the middle of the night. If you said anything, she would hang up.