Hot Darn, I just won $1,500.000.00 in a lottery I didn't even have a ticket on/
By RobinJ
@RobinJ (2501)
Canada
June 14, 2007 4:47pm CST
I do not know about you guys, but I never win on lottery's, mind you I can not afford 3 bucks a week , so I do not buy many tickets, You can imagine how thrilled I was to learn I have won one million five hundred thousand pounds on a lottery in the UK. Did one of you nice people buy me a ticket and forget to tell me, you got all the right information right. Name and Email address etc.Of course after I had a good laugh and deleted said opportunity with out reading it.
My question is how stupid do those people think we are that we would fall for this. as well as the one where seventy five million is sitting in a vault and all I have to do is claim it and split the proceeds with the person that put me on to the deal of a life time.
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32 responses
@Cassy1976 (796)
• Australia
14 Jun 07
I actually watched a big thing on one of the current affair shows here in australia and this one guy just kept sending money to these guys, they kept telling him he needed to send so much before he would get the money and blah blah blah and he just kep doing it, this guy was a business man and apparently quite well off but he was dumb enough to fall for it!!! I think it is sad that people do this and actually believe that they will get rich quick by doing this.... I guess this is how these people make money with these schemes isnt it and how they are able to keep on going
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@sigma77 (5383)
• United States
15 Jun 07
That is the same lottery about half of us on this site have already won. Just think, you are now part of our happy milllionaire family of over 25,000 lucky people. Thanks to those Brits, so many of are now set for life. Welcome to the club.
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@deebomb (15304)
• United States
15 Jun 07
Yah I got one today aking me to help him get some money for his company out of some country . I replyed "Just How stupid do you think I am" and sent it right back. Let him think he cought a sucker then I want to see his face when he reads I'm not stupid.
@deebomb (15304)
• United States
17 Jun 07
I returned one the other day with my own sob story and told her That when she sends me enough money to get my self streightened out then I could help her. They probably don't even read them but I enjoy making up my own story to fit their's.
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@protectiva (687)
• United States
15 Jun 07
they probably get replies like that all the time. it would be better to string them along. Or give them totally false information. then they would get all excited and then be disappointed.
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@Calais (10893)
• Australia
15 Jun 07
Yes !!! I win the lottery just about every day, so I thought that I better not be greedy anymore and share some out. Spend it wisely.
I get a whole array of different ones its so pathetic I just delete them straight away. I also have quite a few deceased long lost relatives from countries that I have never heard of before who have left me their fortunes...Im so lucky.
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@pilbara (1436)
• Australia
14 Jun 07
I won that lottery 3 times last week :) One the same day I got another email from a dating service company telling me there were 7 hot guys looking forward to meeting me. I think maybe they were just after my money (besides my husband wouldn't have approved).
Seriously whenever I see that type of email I just delete it straight away.
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@maryannemax (12156)
• Sweden
15 Jun 07
isn't it amazing? we won that big without even joining the lottery or any raffle? haha
i have received those emails, too. and i just have a great laugh about it. i won't fall into their traps. i know what they want. my name, address, bank's name, account number... and so on. there are even times when they ask for fees for them to send the money to me. geeze! they do think that there are lots of foolish people around who will fall in their traps.
i hope these people will stop doing this. they are just fooling themselves... anne
@pinklilly (3443)
• Australia
14 Jun 07
yeah these are usually scams but imagine how many people actually fall for it and no doubt give them their bank detail etc....
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@Katlady2 (9904)
• United States
17 Jun 07
LOL Those things are so ridiculous, aren't they? Just for the heck of it, I responded to one a while back and asked them what it would take to receive my "winnings". They actually responded back saying they needed all of my personal information and over $2000.00 to cover "fees" necessary for them to send it to me. After I got done wiping the tears from my eyes from laughing my butt off, I emailed them back and told them to give my so called winnings to someone else.
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@abbey19 (3106)
• Gold Coast, Australia
15 Jun 07
Hi Robin. Well, I should be well on my way to being a multi-multi millionaire by now - I have had so many of these letters! The thing is, I can't believe that innocent people are still being taken in by these emails, because there has been so much publicity warning us about them.
@RobinJ (2501)
• Canada
15 Jun 07
Hi Abbey, I think they work because of the innocence of some of their victims as well as the actual need for money, there are very few of us who are wealthy enough not to think, I wonder?. And I believe that it is people in dire straights that hope that it is true. And those criminals that do this think, that if you are foolish to think you can get something for nothing, then game on. Not realizing they are playing the exact same game. The only problem is there are few of them and a whole lot of gullible people.P.T.Barnum was not talking through his hat when he said there is a sucker born every minute.
@ryanphil01 (4182)
• Philippines
15 Jun 07
out of curiosity i tried answering them back. they called me up asking my bank details. i gave them a bogus bank account. the following day they called me up again telling me the account number was not working. i asked them their address but they declined giving me their whereabouts. they immediately dropped the call when i mentioned to them that FBI was monitoring our conversation.
how really disgusting to know people doing these mischief and fraud acts!
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@protectiva (687)
• United States
15 Jun 07
haha, good for you. those guys deserve to be messed with big time.
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@uiwwitch (892)
• United States
14 Jun 07
It would be surprising to know RobinJ, that people have actually fallen for thus. I know someone personally who pursued it to the point of emailing the person and finding out the details. She said there was no harm in trying to find out just in case.
I guess when you are in dire need (or just wants a lot of money without working for it), you'll try anything.
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@protectiva (687)
• United States
15 Jun 07
yeah, i did that once too, just emailed the person for more details. I had the same thought as your friend--its probably a scam but what if it is real, let me just investigate a little more. But sure enough, it was a scam!
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@babostwick (2036)
• United States
16 Jun 07
I read it once and I'm like whatever and pitch it. If I never joined the site or heard of it, I'm just like forget this. I just go about my business and then go from there. It's mostly greed and desperation to hit the big bucks. It'd be like playing roullete and landing on a green zero, no one wins.
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@xbrendax (2662)
• United States
15 Jun 07
That is so funny! When I first got my computer and one of those stupid lottery things popped up in my emails, I was so happy I wanted to cry because I needed money so bad. I drempt of helping all my family and friends and getting a new house, car, paying off my debts etc. etc.. Then I learned it was all fake, and I wanted to kill someone. Now I just laugh about it and realize EVERYBODY gets those, and I just delete them!
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@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
15 Jun 07
These scams are still successful because of human greed. I guess there are always people who think they can get something for nothing. There must be a lot of gullible people out there because these scammers operate out of Spain the UK and many more countries. Once you are on the hook they demand more and more money from these trusting people and of course their money is gone forever. Sad, so sad!
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@venshida (4836)
• United States
15 Jun 07
These scams are so common. I signed up on Career Builder, and within a day or two my email was overflowing with these scams. I got so many sob stories about a family member passing away etc. I won monies in Italy, but I live in the U.S. I wrote some nasty notes back and some I just deleted. I hardly ever get those anymore. I guess they moved on. The sad thing is some people fall for these scams and ultimately they cost them monies.
