Random lottery winning emails!

[leemarkadams]

What is all this about, apart from a scam obviously, as had loads of these type emails in the last few weeks:

Dear Beneficiary,

=========================================

We are please to notify you that your email
address has won you the sum of three hundred
and fifty thousand pounds (£350,000.00) in the
on going Lotto-Nigeria Online sweepstakes. Your
winner pin number is 7154. You are to contact
the winners personnel with your name, address
and phone number on how to claim your funds,
contact the winners personnel using the contact
details below;

=========================================

CONTACT PERSON; BARRISTER EDEN OBAZEE
POST: WINNERS PERSONNEL
CONTACT EMAIL: [e-mail]
DIRECT TEL: [phone]

=========================================

Congratulations,
Susan Omega,
Online Co-ordinator,
LOTTO-NIGERIA ONLINE LOTTERY.
ALL RESPONSE MUST GO TO: [e-mail]

Bloody scamming tossers!

[Jasandjules]

Well, if's a "Barrister" running it then of course it's above board.

Just make sure any payment you send them (of course it's common to send a fee to release a prize in a competition, you should see the local tombola stall at the village fair, it's £100, but the prize is only a cuddly toy, so any amount they ask for is likely to be a bargain... ) is sent cash, so they get it quicker...

[parapaul]

That email address has just been saved for future reference...

The entire contents of my spam folder will be winging its way in her direction very soon

[satchbot]

parapaul said:

That email address has just been saved for future reference...

The entire contents of my spam folder will be winging its way in her direction very soon

Like your style

[sunbeam_alpine]

parapaul said:

That email address has just been saved for future reference...

The entire contents of my spam folder will be winging its way in her direction very soon

Excellent sentiment, but not a good idea. Sending a load of spam to a hotmail address may cause you more problem than them. Would be a brilliant idea if it was going to an e-mail address on their own PC. As it is, you're spamming hotmail.

[miniman]

sunbeam_alpine said:

Excellent sentiment, but not a good idea. Sending a load of spam to a hotmail address may cause you more problem than them. Would be a brilliant idea if it was going to an e-mail address on their own PC. As it is, you're spamming hotmail.

Hmmm... I suppose one could argue that if Microsoft did a little more about preventing spam being sent FROM hotmail accounts...

Anyway, always a good opportunity to post this pic:

[Tycho]

miniman said:

sunbeam_alpine said:

Excellent sentiment, but not a good idea. Sending a load of spam to a hotmail address may cause you more problem than them. Would be a brilliant idea if it was going to an e-mail address on their own PC. As it is, you're spamming hotmail.

Hmmm... I suppose one could argue that if Microsoft did a little more about preventing spam being sent FROM hotmail accounts...

Anyway, always a good opportunity to post this pic:

The email would only have a reply address to hotmail but would usually be sent from a botnet so they can send millions at a time.