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Just got this in my email from the "prestigious Microsoft and AOL". Eat your hearts out!  Microsoft Award Team Ref: BTD/968/06 Batch: 409978E Dear Lucky winner, WINNING NOTIFICATION The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully organised a Sweepstakes marking the anniversary we rolled outover 100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) for our Anniversary Draws. Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage. The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email addresses to ticket numbers. Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
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I love... Quote:
organised Sweepstakes
How many people actually fall for this stuff?
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organised Sweepstakes
How many people actually fall for this stuff?
You ..... you mean .... it isn't real? 
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
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shoot... so you mean I shouldn't have given them my bank informaiton so they could deposit the money?
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Really who falls for this stuff? 
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Isn't it bad enough that we get this spam mail.....and now we get to read it again on here?
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Wait, I wanna know....who falls for this stuff?
There's a question that nobody has asked.
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I have you beat, the Queen on Liberia wrote me,,ME! And said if I open an account she will give me 20%!!! So long bills!! 
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Wait, I wanna know....who falls for this stuff?
There's a question that nobody has asked.
It's usually Steelers fans 
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Wait, I wanna know....who falls for this stuff?
There's a question that nobody has asked.
Who actually falls for this stuff?   
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Really who falls for this stuff?
It's sad but I have to believe that if nobody ever fell for it, these people would stop doing it.. if it don't work, they'd stop..
Unfortunatly, I think some people do fall for it.. I understand that it's the older folks that fall for this more than anyone else.
My Mom (81 years young I might add) gets this stuff all the time on her email.. She always asks me about it and I take care of it pretty quick. I've tried to protect her with spybots and other software designed to catch this stuff, but it keeps getting through.. I can't put too many restrictions on her computer or I'd be down there every couple of hours...
So it's a catch-22 to some degree..
Best advice I can give is if your parents have email, just kinda keep an eye out for them.. probably the best you can do,,, cause if your parents are anything like my mom,,, she'll kick my butt if I try to watch too close 
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Elderly people do fall for it. Some people down on their luck have to and there have been cases where people have traveled to Nigeria and have been kidnapped. It seems like a no brainer that it's a scam to us but you would be amazed at how ignorant some people are to this kind of stuff. My yahoo e-mail gets seriously 10 a day. It's so annoying. The newer ones now say they are soldiers in Iraq Once I messed with them and led them on to see how far I could get but all I think it did was open the flood gates since they knew now my e-mail was active . I got the idea from scamming the scammer
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I've heard of people setting up the scammers,,, haven't really seen anyone do it successfully yet. Dateline NBC has been working on stuff like this for a short while.. They did catch a guy in NYC that was a scammer,,, it was a little while ago so I don't remember the details.
If you want to try that, I'd suggest that you set up an email account specifically for that purpose...then close it out when you have accomplished what you want to do.
#GMSTRONG
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Why are two American based companies giving away 100M pounds sterling? You'd figure they'd just give away the $200M. I must discuss this with Dr. Megadopo of Nigeria.
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YTown - sweet!
I just got an e-mail I'll forward on to you, since you're on a roll. The brother of the Nigeria's exiled Prime Minister has several million he needs to move, and if he can borrow your bank account for a few minutes, he'll leave 10% of the bounty behind ...
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YTown - sweet!
I just got an e-mail I'll forward on to you, since you're on a roll. The brother of the Nigeria's exiled Prime Minister has several million he needs to move, and if he can borrow your bank account for a few minutes, he'll leave 10% of the bounty behind ...
Pshaaaa ... I already have that money coming my way. 
I also re-registered all of my bank accounts ...... even the ones with the 20 or so banks I have received emails from, but don't have accounts with. 
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
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All you people are begining to scare me
#GMSTRONG
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Be nice, and maybe they will share their new found wealth with you Just send them 5,000 and they will give you a 200 percent return on your investment within the next 30 days.
I AM ALWAYS RIGHT... except when I am wrong.
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Be nice, and maybe they will share their new found wealth with you Just send them 5,000 and they will give you a 200 percent return on your investment within the next 30 days.
Yeah. Really. Trust me.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
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Is my 30 days up yet bud?
I AM ALWAYS RIGHT... except when I am wrong.
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Isn't it bad enough that we get this spam mail.....and now we get to read it again on here?
I never saw anyone complain about worthless posts so much while leaving an endless chain of them themselves 
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Ha ! I just got an email from an old woman dying of cancer, and she has decided to will me 2 million dollars. I'm going to be rich also
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Is my 30 days up yet bud?
Almost ......
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
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My Dad, when he was in his later years, would receive junk in the mail saying he won a new car or somesuch other big ticket prize. He would show them to me and I would read and read and read until I found the disclaimer in small print that proved the whole thing crap to his satisfaction. Nonetheless, every time he'd get one of these he'd be convinced this one was for real. On the other hand, we have those like YTown who hits it big and becomes rich for doing nothing but sending an innocent email while having no idea he was entering a sweepstakes. Lucky stiff.
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Be nice, and maybe they will share their new found wealth with you Just send them 5,000 and they will give you a 200 percent return on your investment within the next 30 days.
Yes yes,, Of course, why didn't I think of that,, I should have given the 5 grand willingly and not complained,,,,
Whew,, you may have just saved me millions GM,,,,How can I ever repay you
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Just got this in my email from the "prestigious Microsoft and AOL".
Eat your hearts out!
Microsoft Award Team
Ref: BTD/968/06
Batch: 409978E
Dear Lucky winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION
The prestigious Microsoft and AOL has set out and successfully
organised a Sweepstakes marking the anniversary we rolled outover
100,000.000.00 (One Hundred Million Great Britain Pounds) for our
Anniversary
Draws.
Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide
range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage. The selection was
made through a computer draw system attaching personalised email
addresses to ticket numbers.
Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number
008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky
numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you
These letters come from scammers in Africa(true) who try to get bank info. and have you pay "insurance" to cover for sending you the prize check. There's even one with a Coca-Cola logo saying that your e-mail address was picked from a random computer program of e-mail addresses. There have been cases where people sent their addresses and followed through with the scam and then they found out it was a scam and then got threatening e-mails and phone calls. Just look up "Coca-Cola Sweepstakes Scam" on Google.
"Awww Nawww Big Slimdog!!!"
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These letters come from scammers in Africa(true)
No way!
And to think ....... their English and grammar were so perfect .......
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
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Whew,, you may have just saved me millions GM,,,,How can I ever repay you
Two free drinks on Aug 5th would work just fine 
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These letters come from scammers in Africa(true)
No way!
And to think ....... their English and grammar were so perfect .......
Sorry. Didn't know that you had it figured out. Could of came from Australia or the US. Terrible spellers here and from there as well.
"Awww Nawww Big Slimdog!!!"
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