We are pleased to inform you that your email address has won you a cash
prize in Google Anniversary that was organized by Google Inc., held here
in Turkey Istanbul. Your email addresses was randomly selected through a
computer ballot system to receive an award of One Million United States
Dollars ($1.000,000.00).

This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Google
search engine and the Google ancillary services.

Google is now the biggest search engine worldwide and in an effort to make
sure that it remains the most widely used search engine, we run an online
e-mail test which your email address won $1.000,000,00 {One Million United
States Dollars}

Ticket Number: 719 226 1319


Serial Number: 902-66

You are to provide the below personal information with your TICKET NUMBER
to enable us process your claim;

1. Full name:

2. Age:

3. Address:

4. Telephone:

5. Occupation:

6.Country:

Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission!!!

Your's Faithfully
Jim David

[QUOTE=kladner;443878]One Million United States Dollars ($1.000,000.00).[/QUOTE]ONE MILLION DOLLARS! My favourite sentence. :tu:[QUOTE=kladner;443878]1. Full name: [color=red]The unspeakable one[/color]

2. Age[color=red]nt orange[/color]

3. Address: [color=red]My evil lair[/color]

4. Telephone: [color=red]Only during daylight hours please[/color]

5. Occupation: [color=red]The bathroom is currently unoccupied[/color]

6.Country [color=red]& Western[/color][/QUOTE]Thanks Goog for the buck$. I will make sure to do as your corporate motto says and do as much evil as possible with it.

[QUOTE=retina;443879]ONE MILLION DOLLARS! My favourite sentence. :tu:Thanks Goog for the buck$. I will make sure to do as your corporate motto says and do as much evil as possible with it.[/QUOTE]
I am encouraged that my winnings could be put to suitable uses.

Contact My Parish Priest: Rev. Father Leon Jones Now For Your CERTIFIED CASHIERS CHECK
 

Gee! With a PRIEST backing things, what could possibly be wrong? :confused2:

This touching story, about a victim who was cheated out of a lot of money, is a reminder that even when you're dealing with a 419 scam there is generally a human being behind it. Just not the human being you may originally have thought it was.

[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37632259[/url]

"I went to Nigeria to meet the man who scammed me."

[quote]
From Miss Venus Ephram.

Dearest One,

It's my pleasure to contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your country, though I have not met with you before but I believe one has to risk, confiding in someone to succeed sometimes in life.

There is this huge amount of money Six Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars) .(USD $6.500, 000, 00) which I inherited from my late father, deposited in a local bank here in Cote d'Ivoire before he was assassinated by unknown persons.
[/quote]

Sounds like a nice lady, and very polite, so I'm tempted to reply, if only to pass on my condolences.

Brian and Nick: How much wealth does this office create? (...and for whom?) :razz:
[QUOTE]De Lotto NL Wealth Creation Office Laan van Hoornwijck 55 2289 DG Rijswijk KvK: 41151075 The Netherlands Dear Sir/Madam. The Netherlands DeLotto Company, write to inform you that you have been approved to receive the sum of 550,000.00 (Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Euro Only) in our European Union Wealth Creation program for the month of January, 2017. This Wealth Creation Program is a European Union (EU) monthly program organize in conjunction with DeLotto NL in The Netherlands and you don't need to purchase anything from us to part take in this program. All beneficiaries were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the European Union (EU) and you emerge the lucky winner in the 1st category, hence you have to provide our payment consultant with your payment details below for further information regarding your prize. Your payment details: Program Batch Number: DRS-109/2017 Payment Reference Numbers: NLD-042-DL/01/2017. We advise you write and call them through the below information. Harrie Limburg (Dr.) Claims processing consultant Tel: +31 686 165 730 Fax: +31 207 192 231 Email:claimsdepartmentdelottonleu@gmail.com Email: [EMAIL="claimsdepartment@de.lotto-nl.eu"]claimsdepartment@de.lotto-nl.eu[/EMAIL] [URL]http://www.lotto.nl[/URL][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=kladner;451118]Brian and Nick: How much wealth does this office create? (...and for whom?) :razz:[/QUOTE]
Good question. The Lotto recently merged with the state lottery here.
(And the phone number is a mobile one, and the fax number does not match the address...)

Wow! That is an exhaustive rundown!

[QUOTE]My Name Is Mr Stanley andresen,Are you looking for a part time Job? Can you do something apart from babysitting? Are you available to run errands? I am

looking for someone who can handle my personal and business errands at his/her spare time. Someone who can offer me these services: Mail services: Receive my

mails and drop them off at UPS (nothing illegal). Shop for Gifts Sit for delivery( at your home) or pick items up at nearby post office at your

convenience.Let me know if you will be able to offer me any of these services.

You won't have to put money out of your pocket, all you have to do is have packages shipped to your house and do my shopping. You are allowed to open the

packages to reveal the content. The content of the packages will be business and personal mails. All expenses and taxes will be covered by me....

You will work between 15 and 20hrs a month. How much will you charge per month? I will pay $550 per month. That is not a bad offer, is it? I need your

service because I am constantly out of town... I am senior civil engr. I will return to state in Next few Month so this process will be on going till

then...the money to do my errands must be mailed directly to you

So you should be ready to work with me,as .i appreciate hard work a lot. I need your contact address for the cheque to be mail to you. get back to me with

the details below,

FULL NAME : THAT WILL APPEAR ON THE CHEQUE ..
FULL ADDRESS
CITY
STATE
POSTAL CODE .
AGE..
BANK NAME..
MOBILE NUMBER AND LAND LINE
Thanks

Yours sincerely

Stanley Andresen

NOTE: Text me only on (716) 288-2951
[/QUOTE]Nothing illegal, eh?

Another thing to be wary of: saying "yes" when cold-called.
[URL="http://wfla.com/2017/01/27/how-saying-yes-to-a-scam-call-could-cost-you/"]How saying “yes” to a scam call could cost you[/URL]
[QUOTE]... Turns out that robocall started out as a message and when the recipient speaks back, it signals an active person to get on the line.

Then, at some point the caller asks something like ” Can you hear me?”

“And I said yes,” said Owens.

That one simple word can then be used against you.

Reports to police and the Better Business Bureau across the country show the scam artists record you and may use your affirmative answer as proof that you signed up for a service like home security or a cruise line.

“We don’t advise people to carry on the conversation with them, in the event that they are recording your voice, you know they may be using your recording for fraudulent charges or anything like that, so it’s not, the best thing to do is just to hang up,” said Drew Pinciaro with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.

In another version of this scam, the caller may already have your credit card number through a prior hack and is using the recording to authorize charges.[/QUOTE]