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13 Jul 07 - 05:47 PM (#2101959) Subject: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: GUEST,Millionaire I never recieved one of these before. Should I respond or trash? The Irish Lottery P O Box 1010 11 G Lower Dorset Street, Ireland This email is to inform you that your email emerged you a winner of £700,000 in the Irish Online Lottery draws which was played on the 11th. of July 2007 with Ref: # (I deleted this part, friends. You'll understand). For further information about the claims and processing of your winnings,contact our Fiduciary agent with the following contact details. Mr Richard Woods verificationdepartment@hotmail.co.uk +447----- |
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13 Jul 07 - 05:57 PM (#2101970) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: artbrooks Did you buy a ticket? Do your numbers match the ones drawn on that date? If the answer to either question is no, than feel free to trash it. If the answer to both questions is yes, send some to support Mudcat. |
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13 Jul 07 - 06:04 PM (#2101980) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: Jeri Spam |
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13 Jul 07 - 06:13 PM (#2101987) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: PoppaGator They have the same kind of "sweepstakes" in Nigeria... |
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13 Jul 07 - 06:30 PM (#2101992) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: Rapparee Assuming that you entered and assuming that you did win, don't you think that they'd have an email address other than Hotmail? Scam. I've gotten lots of similar things. (I don't think that the Irish Sweepstakes are run anymore.) |
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13 Jul 07 - 07:13 PM (#2102012) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: Leadfingers If I had a pound for every "You've Won" E mail I've received in the last five years , I reckon I would have a new car ! |
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13 Jul 07 - 07:38 PM (#2102029) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: GUEST,Not a millionaire No, I didn't buy anything. I just got this email. It says "your email emerged you a winner." So that could mean they draw from billions of email addresses and I got lucky. The thing sounds like a translation though. And yes, a hotmail address is kind of suspect. Oh well. |
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13 Jul 07 - 09:37 PM (#2102102) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: Rapparee If you want to take the trouble there is a way to trace an email back to its source server. I did that on one that purported to come from some place in California -- I tracked it to a server in an industrial park outside of Cairo, Egypt. This is done by a WHOIS lookup of the IP addresses in the header. I did it for the newsletter on crime prevention the local cops publish. Normally I just delete the damned things. |
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13 Jul 07 - 10:17 PM (#2102128) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: GUEST,Maybe a millionaire Yeah, I've done that. Suppose I should on this before giving up. Worth a little effort for a million bucks. |
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13 Jul 07 - 11:13 PM (#2102152) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: Bee-dubya-ell If the text of the message sounds like it may have been written in some other language and translated into English using Babelfish or a similar utility, trash it. |
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14 Jul 07 - 09:46 AM (#2102394) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: GUEST,The Droop The Irish Sweepstake has been history for many years, Irish people now play the Lotto, bin it. |
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14 Jul 07 - 11:09 AM (#2102427) Subject: RE: BS: Irish Sweepstakes From: GUEST,JTT Note that the 'verification address' is a .co.uk domain - British! Heh! If you haven't entered the Lotto, you won't have won, sorry about that. If you have won, you can check on the Irish National Lottery page: www.lotto.ie This is a common spam. By the way, the Sweep is long gone. The Lotto is regarded as a tax on stupidity. Irish people with any sense invest instead in Prize Bonds, a government bond that enters each number in a lottery. The prizes are smaller (maximum €100,000, I think), but the likelihood of winning is much higher. |