08-03-2003, 12:44 PM | #1 |
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Uh this is a bit awkward... But I just won £ 20,000 ...
Unfortunetly I have to be a U.K. Resident to win. Now, I live in Cuba, so It's not exactly easy for me to get this thingy sent into them. It was a lottery ticket that came in a magazine. It has a telephone number and mailing adress along with information on it. I'm basically looking for any trust-worthy individual in the UK to handel this. You will get somewhere between 25 and 50% of the winnings if you don't mind to do this by December 31, 2003. The clock is ticking, and this is absolutley freaking me out. IT says I've won somewhere between £ 25,000 and £ 15,000 O_O or even more? The details are still sketchy, but this card is ready and I mean it's a bloody straight flush... 5 in a row, 4 of the same kind etc... So Uh... If anyone is interested just like reply and if you want we'll get in touch wiht E-mail... One things for certain tho, I'm gonna donate about $1,000 American of it to Ironworks if this is for real! [img]tongue.gif[/img] So who'se up for the job? It says you have to be over 18 and a UK resident, you don't actually have to have purchased the ticket...
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08-03-2003, 12:57 PM | #2 |
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First off, better make sure that it is not a scam. Please read the article concerning similiar scam here.
Not that I am questioning your judgement, but it is better to be safe than sorry. [ 08-03-2003, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ]
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08-03-2003, 01:40 PM | #3 |
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I've won several prizes, large amounts of cash, cars, holliday destinations.... except it's all bogus. Don't get too excited just yet dude. I don't mean to spoil your fun or anything, but there's a good chance this is a scam too.
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08-03-2003, 02:37 PM | #4 |
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Is it one of those 'if you get 3 symbols the same you've won a major prize' scratchcard?
They make their money by getting people to phone a premium rate number to find out exactly what you've won (at about £3 a minute) and it turns out you haven't won £20,000 at all, but a voucher for some money off a holiday. I had 2 of them last week alone, they are in all magazines, and I've never heard of anyone winning anything other than a voucher for a holiday. Most likely a scam - sorry.
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08-03-2003, 02:43 PM | #5 |
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It sounds like a kind of scam typical to the UK. By that I mean no offense to anyone, simply that when I lived there I had a similiar experience - scams are worlwide.
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P.S - I hope you haven't spent it all yet, for just £15,000 I can sell you Big Ben!
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08-03-2003, 08:12 PM | #8 |
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Well you've all had more experience with this sort of thing than me, You're right, from your descriptions and what i've read on the ticket it probably is a scam. I guess I'm just a silly American who'll belive anything that gets thrown to me out of a foreign magazine (yeah I found the ticket wedged into a Windows XP Magazine so it probably is bogus)
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08-03-2003, 09:28 PM | #9 |
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I had to check your address to see if you had not migrated to Nigeria from Cuba! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Just kidding [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] If it is false then the scum who devised the scam should be smacked down hard
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08-03-2003, 11:28 PM | #10 |
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scam or no scam how about you mail me the thing? I wanna see it.
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