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Old 01-04-2005 | 01:50 PM
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Some time last year, I receive the following email:

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GREENER PASTURES LOTTERY,
42 ELLAND ROAD,LONDON.
SE4 2JB ENGLAND.
info@greenerpasturelottery.com
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you that as a result of our recent lottery draws held on the 2nd of October 2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 00000000000-000 with serial number 000-000 drew lucky numbers 0-00-00-00-00-00, which consequently won in the 3rd category. You have therefore won the sum of 2,700,000.00 Euros (Two Million Seven Hundred Euros only)

Note that all participants in this lottery program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 20,000 companies and 30,000,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and web sites. The promotional program is promoted by Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) a foundation that focuses on health, education, culture, rural development, institution-building and the promotion of economic development. It is dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities for the poor, without regard to their faith, origin or gender. In the spirit to promote world peace and awareness of their ideas and services, the foundation together with Software AG, a computer software manufacturing company came together to set up the GREENER PASTURE LOTTERY to give out prizes based on the computer ballot system. The motive is to get a wide ranging awareness campaign to a wider spectrum of people in order to promote their laudable ideas and services on the internet being the highest level for advertisement and awareness propagation as a means of problem solving.

You are requested to contact our Marketing And Promotions Co-ordinator below for further clarifications and directives for collection of your payments.
Elizabeth Roth.
Email:info_gplotto@telkom.net
Below are your winning lottery informations.
Ref number: SUL/000/000/00
Batch number: AT-000-SB00-00
All winnings must be claimed not later than one month after the date of this notice. Please note, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, remember to quote your reference number and batch numbers in all correspondence. Congratulations once more and thank you for being part of our promotional program.
NOTE: YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED IF YOU ARE BELOW 18 YEARS OF AGE.
Sincerely yours,
Ms. Elizabeth Roth
Marketing And Promotions Co-ordinator.
Old 01-04-2005 | 01:54 PM
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Scam -- see:

Lottery scam
Old 01-04-2005 | 05:39 PM
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Any time something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Old 01-05-2005 | 08:15 AM
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Darn, I was so looking forward to spending those "two million ... Euros". Oh well.
Old 01-05-2005 | 12:36 PM
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No, it is really true. I won 2.7 million euros myself just last month.

Let me be your agent to be sure you do it right. Just post here in this thread your name, all your bank accounts and pin numbers, all your passwords, all your fingerprints, and a dna specimen from your first born. Send me by paypal or hard cash a mere 270,000 euros and I'll be sure you get delivery of any winnings.

Barry
Old 01-05-2005 | 02:08 PM
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Wow, will you be sharing this with ALL of your vintage pals?
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