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April 15, 2005

I AM A WINNER!!!!!

How exciting was I to recieve this e-mail. Should I quit my job today?


Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 05:47:57 +0200
Subject: CONGRATULATION

WINNING NOTIFICATION
EURO AFRO ASIAN SWEEPSTAKE LOTO,
REF: EAASL/206/8320054/887
BATCH: 9075/08/LCF

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today the 8th of April
2005 of winners of the BONO Loto's International program. Your details
attached to ticket number 275-1085, with serial number 8786
drew the lucky winning 1 15 22 30 43 45 You have therefore been
approved for a lump sum pay out of one million, five hundred and ten thousand,
seven hundred and sixty-six euros, forty cents only, (1.510.766,40
Euro.) in cash credited to file Ref NÂș: EAASL/206/8320054/887. And you can
as well search our website to see that you are one of the lucky winners
of this month
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn
from 25,000 names from Middle East, Asia, Africa, Canada, Europe,
Australia, New Zea land, South and North America as part of our International
promotion programmes.

CLAIMS NOTIFICATION.
Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our European booklet representative office in Europe as
indicated in your play coupon.
Your fund is now deposited with an International finance and security
house insured. Due to the mix up of some names and numbers, we ask that
you keep this award notification 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 multiple claims or
unscrupulous acts by participants of this program.

To begin your claim, please contact your International claims agent,
COLE SMITH,
Client service manager,
Fountain Trust finance & security
TEL: + 44-704-011-8296
EMAIL:clsmith@mailbox.co.za

For timely processing and remittance of your prize money to a
designated account of your choice, remember to contact your claims agent
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please do
remember to quote your Reference and Batch numbers in all your
correspondences with your claims agent. Further more, should there be any
change of your address, do inform your claims agent as soon as possible.
Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for being part
of our promotional programmes.

Sincerely,
MRS.VOS SANCHEZ

N.B.Any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winners will
result to disqualification. The Bono lotto Promotion holds the right to
cancel your winning if you are below the age of 18. Contacts should be made
directly to the Claims Unit Department via email on or before 14 days
after receiving your winning notification, as this is mandatory.


Do any people actually respond to these things? LOL

Posted by JimG at April 15, 2005 08:47 AM

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Sadly, people really do respond to these.

Posted by: Greg at April 15, 2005 12:56 PM

My God, man, didn't you read the fine print???????????

You are not allowed to make this notification public yet!! They may not pay you the money you have ALREADY won. You could have retired and gone to multi-blog heaven.

Next time, follow the destructions.

Posted by: Dave / higher powered at April 15, 2005 06:53 PM

As Dave says, and this could have been the ticket to your fabulous summer vacation - ah well, up in smokes now.. ;)

Posted by: Sven at April 16, 2005 07:40 AM

I got one of those as well. Didn't give it a second thought. How can I win something, when I didn't enter anything in the first place? Lol.

Posted by: Charlie Williams at April 16, 2005 12:49 PM

I got one of those notice as well. They make it seem so real.

Posted by: Ronida at November 16, 2005 03:46 PM

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