I Guess They Think I'm STUPID!!!

Hon , to help your conscience feel better , why would whatsisname Mr Cook share or decide to give someone out of the blue £250,000.00?? He might as well start a Cook foundation or something with that money. Just saying..

I would have kept it for future reference and also forwarded it to the abuse department at drake.edu. It may be a student after easy money, bilking elderly and naive people by taking advantage of their naivety. Get that sorry excuse for a human being and throw them into prison!! Nobody will catch them unless you forward it to the drake.edu where it originated and enough people do that to justify an investigation. So that's what I do with emails like that when I can. I do not respond to anything that says I won money. Even when a survey place said I won a $100 Amex gift certificate, I called their office and spoke to the president before I believed it!

Personally I think we have all received these type of Emails from time to time. I have received more than I would like to count. Also have gotten them from time to time in my myLot messages, as well as in Facebook. The problem is there are still people falling for these scams all the time. I use gmail now for my Email so a lot of times now these type of Emails go to my Spam box first.

I enjoy this type of email. I have some saved reply for the guys. I just copied and sent the reply to them. In reply I informed them that he has been selected as the ........ and my company will pay him a lot. It's fun to me.

There are so many scams that I think I would have deleted it too. I know everyone has been especially warned against those that ask for money to get the prize. It's really sad because people do get excited to hear they won only to realize they were scammed. I don' t know anything about this one, but don't they contact people more than once if it is legit?? I don't know for sure, but seems to me they would. I don't think you are stupid at all:)

Hi Lady Marissa...I have gotten many such e-mails. O course they are scams. I have even answered a few just to have fun with them and they always want money for clerical work, transportation, mailing etc. Just delete.

Are you saying this is the first time you've received an email like this? I get probably 8-10 a day, usually in my junk folder. They also include those people from foreign countries who want to give me their money to hold onto, or money I supposedly inherited. I don't know what people expect to gain by sending this trash out, except probably your banking information. So many people out there with nothing better to do than cause trouble on the internet. I wish they'd stop. It's annoying.

once i got an email at work (i open all the emails and i work for a not for profit) and they wanted me to do some money laundering (not in so many words) but i actually emailed them back to tell that was illegal to do what they wanted here in Canada but of course got no response.

Yup, same as you: DELETE!

Send me $50 and I will tell you...

Well, every time i get rid of those messages, i wish the same. I say'' ohhhh i wish it was true, sadly it isn't *deletes*''. Seriously, they have such high hopes that someday, somewhere, some fool would join a mailing site, would open this mail and fall in our trap. Ofcourse, it was a scam, if mailing sites were really doing this, they would spread this news first. No one would want their good efforts to go into scam list, when it would be a prize you'll know! for now just delete like you always do. :) :P

You'd be surprised at how many 'stupid' people are really out there that would respond to this kind of email. For the scammers, it is just a matter of numbers. For a hundred emails that they would send, they might get one or two responses back. And for them, this is already worth their effort. But honestly, I don't mind £250,000.00, so if this turns out to be true, send me the link!

I usually just ignore scams, although emails like that I always reply in a way that would violate hundreds of MyLot's policies. Let's just say, they don't email again very soon, and most of the time end up apologising.

I rarely have it on my email, but I often get that statement from SMS. Naturally, I don't believe such things, but then, I get the idea. What happened if I fool these SMS senders? So then, I build my plan. At first, I give a phone to the SMS Senders, saying if I really win much money from them, acting like a fool one. Here's what we're talking about : Me : Hello Sir, I recently get the SMS that I already won money, is it true? Sender : Good afternoon, sir. Yes, it is. You already won Rp 10.000.000, but to get the money, you have to send some money to us at first as some tax. Me : Really! How much I must send? Sender : Sir, how much your money in bank now? Me : Rp 15.000.000, sir. Sender : OK. Now, follow my instruction to get your money transferred into your account. Put the code that I will tell to you in your transfer transaction. The code is 14785365. (I think he tell that code because I say before that my money is Rp 15.000.000. So that means, I transfer to him Rp 14.785.365. He says the code in order to make it official so that we believe in him.) Me : It's done, sir. When I get my money, sir? Sender : Your money will be transferred into your account in 2 days period. Now, I will process it. (There's a sound of keyboard I hear, so I guess he's checking his balance in Internet.) Sir, are you really have done your process? It seems you enter the wrong code. Me : Really! Well, I know your tricks anyway. You won't get my money, even a little. Sender : Sir, don't make such jokes. This is serious! Me : I'm serious too. I'm calling cops now. The Sender then close the phone, realizing that he's already failed while I'm laughing. Well, that's my story back then.

Yes. Those notifications are truly a scam. I get them in my email inbox all of the time. I do not even open them up anymore. I just delete them.

I received several similar emails containgin that kind of content. I don't entertain those email becaus eI know that those are just scam. Never pay any attention to it. That's one thing engraved in my mind.

Well, we always get messages like this. But the thing that always makes me sure it's a scam is I ask myself, "Did I join a promo/contest like this?" The answer is no so how could I possibly win. And I think you too don't remember joining anything like that so you know it's not real. However, it would really be nice and great and fun if those were true....

i wonder if you could have had some fun with them and replied asking if it could be donated to the blind orphanage that you work for. tell them you need to be careful of scams as the orphanage has a large sum of money in it's account. then ask them what details they need to transfer it? wonder what you would get back in return?

Oh yes its just a scam.... So chill u didnt actually throw away £250,000.00 and why the hell would someone give an unknown person tht much money for no reason ???? :D

ehheheeh just forget him it is absolutely a lie we also receive it many times and still its not true just continue to be a good person good luck.......