OT: I Have Won!!!

[Atrocities]

According this bogus email, I have won a lottory or something. How dumb do they think we are. If people are stupid enough to fall for this crap, well, they deserve to get ripped off.

INORBIT LOTTO CONGLOMERATE

MAXHAVELASTRAAT 22,DENHAAG-NETHERLANDS

WINNING NOTIFICATION

REF NO;ILC532-04/90011

Dear Sir/Madam,

Sequel to the annual lottery draw of the above named establishment in Europe,
conducted on the 19th of November ,2004.I am glad to notify you that your
e-mail address attached to ticket No ;1225904TW won in the third Category
a lump-sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars(USDA750,000;00).


Congratulations and be advised to keep confidential till your prize is processed
to avoid multiple applications/filings. All participants were selected randomly
by a computer software ballot device.

This promotion is sponsored by a group of corporate establishments and accredited
charitable organizations worldwide.

Be informed that a minimum of 10% of your prize must be donated to a remarkable
charity organization in your locality. To file for your claim, please contact
your fiducial agent;

Mrs Winnie Kensington, Inorbit Consultant 11(e-mail; claimagent02@inorbit.com)


Congratulations once more,

Sincerely yours'

Augus Jones

NB; Kindly state your ref No and Ticket No when filing for your claim.

[David E. Gervais]

Well AT, I can just see it now,.. you send them an e-mail and say they need your bank account info in order to transfer the funds. then they send you an authorization form and way down in the fine print it says you authorize them to not only deposit, but withdraw as needed. Or they say something really stupid.. Sir we need your credit card info in order to confirm your identity. Duh? a credit card is not a piece of identification.

LoL, these type of things are always going around. Trust me, if you won there would be a registered letter notifying you and they don't need bank or credit card info to issue a check. But if they issue a check to "Atrocities" could you cash it? LOL

This is almost too funny.

Have a great day, Cheers!

[Raging Deadstar]

Lol, Atrocities. I thought for one moment you had a big Luck payoff and something really good had happened!!! Dam my optimism

[Atrocities]

Something good did happen. I did not fall for this scam.

[Gandalf Parker]

The scam that pisses me off lately is that many of my domains are coming up for re-registering. Im getting emails that are reminding me to renew and re-register them. The emails read just fine. If I wasnt REAL careful to take note of the fact that they are NOT coming from my registrar. They are coming from other registrars and if I hit the link and "renew" I will actually be switching companies.

Im geting the same thing on the phone lately because of my house mortgage. If I dont SPECIFICALLY ask them "we have an account with you now?" then nothing they say gives any impression that they arent the company you are already with and their offer of "upgrading your account to the new rates" is actually trying to get you to switch.

I feel this pretend-you-are-with-us-already tactic is deplorable for a company to use. OK it is legal but I would be ashamed to work for a company that uses it.

[Atrocities]

I took a call like that Last year just after I listed my house. My house, to think I actually owned a house. Well any ways, I had to laugh. I made a lot of money off the sale, and am thankful it sold in fast, but in retrospect, I should not have sold it. I paid $112.500 for it new, actually was there every day it was being built, and sold it for $149.500 five years later. To get into a house like that again, would cast me $175.000 now. Go figure. Any who, I hear ya GP, tis annoying as all hell, but even those low life SOB's have to put food on the table for their families, so they inconvience us to do it. What can ya do?

[Suicide Junkie]

Ask them for a cheque to "verify their identity"

[Phoenix-D]

David E. Gervais said:
Or they say something really stupid.. Sir we need your credit card info in order to confirm your identity. Duh? a credit card is not a piece of identification.

Actually a credit card CAN be used as a piece of ID. The airlines do it now for example (and no, it wasn't the card used to pay for the flight).

Not that this isn't a scam.

[Atrocities]

IF I had won, then the inorbit.com site would be real. Also the information about signing up for their hosts email service was a dead give away. Duhhhhhhhhhhhh

Just once I would like to meet up with one of the people behind these scams and beat them to near death with a wooden bat. Then just for good measure, tie em to a concrete block and drop em in the river. If they float, then they live, if not, well.... who'd miss em?

[sachmo]

I had a coworker who just fell for the eBay account scam. Social Security, debit card number, everything.