WOO! I just won the lottery!

[DPunch4]

Wow.. I didn't realise how late it was(3:45am), lol thats what I get for playin pool high with dad

It's not supposed to be a virus tho.... It's a scam to get your money..

 

[BENZOOKA]

Have these guys even had a glimpse of the original post? I'm having a laugh with all these serious "It might be a trap" responds.

OT: Buy 1 Internet with it. It's ought to be a good power source.

 

[DPunch4]

Have these guys even had a glimpse of the original post? I'm having a laugh with all these serious "It might be a trap" responds.

OT: Buy 1 Internet with it. It's ought to be a good power source.

I know right! Also, Internet is like oil. It seems like the perfect wonder fuel. But soon demand gets too high. And we run out of natural reserves.

If everything becomes powered by the internet... We could end up fighting to the death over our last Internets...

 

[2fish]

I want an internet car, I mean we are friends right? I mean an internet car would be powered by the internet yes?

This scam is far more professional then the ones I get

 

[MikailCaboose]

Dear Winner,
Winning Notification
This is to notify you that you have won £850,000.00 in
our online email lottery in which e-mail addresses are
picked randomly by computerised balloting, powered
by the Internet. Your email address was amongst
those chosen for this period.
Ticket no: 56475600545 188
Serial no: 5368/02
Winning number: 08.11.21.32.35.42. {47}
Draw (#1187)
To claim your prize, please contact:
Fiduciary Agent Mr.Robert Hache
Email:roberthache0148@yahoo.com.hk
Tell: +447024081349
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Lorraine M. Dodds

WOOOO! What should I do with my money? Also, "Powered by the internet".

If you do actually get the money, Don't. Tell. Anyone.
If you do that there will be a shit-ton of people popping out of the woodwork going for some cash. Plus, pop it into savings. A lot of people blow it immediately and pretty much lose it before you can say "I'm rich!".

 

[RewardMe]

I've had my main email address for nine years now. You can only imagine the spam i get on it. But other than the russian brides and viagra emails, i've never got a lottery one. Yooose lucky.

Edit: and i love it how they end it with Yours faithfully,
Dr. Lorraine M. Dodds..... A doctor huh? gotta be trustworthy. I 'll send my check right away.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Have these guys even had a glimpse of the original post? I'm having a laugh with all these serious "It might be a trap" responds.

OT: Buy 1 Internet with it. It's ought to be a good power source.

I know right! Also, Internet is like oil. It seems like the perfect wonder fuel. But soon demand gets too high. And we run out of natural reserves.

If everything becomes powered by the internet... We could end up fighting to the death over our last Internets...

It strikes me as if some people here would really think thrice if the Nigerian prince with the generous offer is for real.

Yet one can win Internets from The Internet, like "You Sir have just won the Internet". This is a far more pleasant scenario than with oil. Even The US won't be conquering countries for it. All the soldiers will just be ordered to post extravagantly witty, funny, or genius stuff on forums.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

hehe, "powered by the internet" made me lauf.

OT: you should help out all the Nigerian princes, buy a green card for every person alive and buy enough pills to make your penis 2km long and constantly erect.

This made me laugh out loud and wake up the whole house. Thank you sir ^_^ brilliant.

OT: ...I genuinely can't top you Swaki GODDDAAAAAM.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Donate it to the Human Fund. It just so happens I'm a human and I am part of that organization.

The Human Fund could really use a donation... All proceeds go to making this year a better Festivus for the disadvantaged.

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

THE EMAIL!

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seriously, did you enter it or is it a scam

Its a scam, unless you entered the lottery, DON'T OPEN THE EMAIL.

The fact that he said at the end of his post "powered by the internet" to put emphasis on the obvious nature of the scam, i would assume he was being sarcastic with nature and tone of this thread.

In other words, he knows its a scam.

OT- Honestly, the fact that its made too obvious to tell if it is a scam on some of these things makes for some really good laughs.

thank you for the clarification

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

Dear Winner,
Winning Notification
This is to notify you that you have won £850,000.00 in
our online email lottery in which e-mail addresses are
picked randomly by computerised balloting, powered
by the Internet. Your email address was amongst
those chosen for this period.
Ticket no: 56475600545 188
Serial no: 5368/02
Winning number: 08.11.21.32.35.42. {47}
Draw (#1187)
To claim your prize, please contact:
Fiduciary Agent Mr.Robert Hache
Email:roberthache0148@yahoo.com.hk
Tell: +447024081349
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Lorraine M. Dodds

WOOOO! What should I do with my money? Also, "Powered by the internet".

a google search reveals that lorraine dodds is a scammer. probably a program, TONS of people have had this email

This reminded me of the massive yacht sketch from that Mitchell and Webb look, too bad I don't know how to put video's on forums ): .

That's the first thing I thought of too.


It's a shame for the OP that it probably isn't an eccentric billionaire running a lottery out of goodwill for random strangers, who is a bit out of touch with technology and thinks that everything connected by a Ethernet cable is "powered by the Internet".

However, it would be hilarious yet tragic if there was some eccentric but bedridden and terminally ill Ex-Pat billionaire in Hong Kong, trying to in vain give away his fortune before he dies... with his new-fangled computer (that is "powered by the Internet") being his only method of contact with the outside world.

EDIT: However, in this case it is obviously a scam. Why would a Hong Kong e-mail address have a UK phone number?

The scam is probably that the UK phone number you call is a super-duper premium rate number that starts earning them (and charging you) hundreds of pounds as soon as you're connected.

EDIT EDIT: A quick Google search reveals it's probably those pesky Nigerians again, up to their shenanigans:

http://www.joewein.de/sw/419-phone-uk.htm

this man is correct, it IS those pesy nigerians up to their whacky shennanigans trying to make you use the money to buy MASSIVE YACHTS

EVEN MORE PROOF THAT THIS IS A SCAM:

http://www.thescambaiter.com/FORUM/showthread.php?t=13407

 

[Nouw]

If you ever actually win, you're going to find out that you have a lot more friends and family members than you realize, your winnings are going to be a lot smaller than what you've been told, and you probably will only be able to access so much of it from the bank every month. Oh and charities will pester you for donations nonstop.

Yeah this, they will play the guilt game, so don't fall for it!

If it's not a fake, then buy things which will attend to your needs. Simple and a bit cliched but it's a very good saying.

 

[Death God]

I have never heard of a lottery via randomly selected emails so it could be fake. If it isn't then by all means, save it. Use it for when you really need it rather than spend it all now on thing you want.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Welcome to the club of Internet Rich guys

also: obvious fake is obvious

I want to do terrible things to your avatar.

 

[drbarno]

OT: I wish I won the internet lotto, All i get are emails telling me my WoW account may be hacked and I should go to www.battle.net.fake.wrong.com/Datasteal/.

And to think I would have believed them, if not for the tiny fact that I don't actually HAVE a WoW account...

I had the same once, even with that same flaw of not having a WoW account. I just feel sorry for the ones that do fall for the scam.

OT: I have had scams even worse than this, like they haven't even bothered trying, one I remember was saying I won a lottery and the email said, in the smallest amounts of words they could, to send them my details they could use for identity theft. I laughed at that one.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

Welcome to the club of Internet Rich guys

also: obvious fake is obvious

I want to do terrible things to your avatar.

Don't we all?

 

[Fraught]

I can't believe the people here who ACTUALLY believe that just "maybe" it's fake.

Jesus, I've probably won a few million billion pounds through lottery. I'm not kidding, completely serious.

 

[DPunch4]

I really wish people would stop telling me how to spend my new found money..

It's almost as if you really believe this email...

D: I have to wait 8 more hours for the pizza shop to open!!!! It's only 3:30am here . Soooo hungry.

 

[steeple]

Have these guys even had a glimpse of the original post? I'm having a laugh with all these serious "It might be a trap" responds.

OT: Buy 1 Internet with it. It's ought to be a good power source.

I know right! Also, Internet is like oil. It seems like the perfect wonder fuel. But soon demand gets too high. And we run out of natural reserves.

If everything becomes powered by the internet... We could end up fighting to the death over our last Internets...

I hear that are internet deposits in utah and ohio. problem is, when too many people use internet as a power-source, it pollutes the air with the toxic compound InDouBa (may cause extreme dementia and sudden bursts of aggression)