How lame is this.... (scam emails)

There are allways people trying to scam you out of your hard earned money. I have gotten some pritty lame emails trying, but this one relly rugs me. I never thought this crap was real... then I looked at the aol email

well here is the lattest email I got (it was marked as spam by gmail )

Quote:

"notifications009@aol.co.uk"

NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS 2007!!!
Lucky Winner 2007,
NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
POWERBALL EURO E-MAIL INTERNATIONAL
PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
BATCH NO: *Batch Number*
REF. NO: *ref number*
WINNING NOTIFICATION / FINAL
NOTICE...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
This is to inform you of the release of the E-MAIL LOTTERY
BALLOT INTERNATIONAL/WORLD GAMING BOARD. Your name attached to
ticket number 100190876290 with Serial number 801972719 drew the
lucky numbers of *numbers*, which consequently won the
lottery in the 1st category.
You have therefore been approved for a lump sum payment of
1,000,000.00euros only, which is deposited with the
UnitedKingdom Clearing house in your favor as beneficiary and
covered with HIGH INSURANCE POLICY. It is important that you
keep your winning confidential to avoid people garneringyour
information and subsequently making claim with your winning
paraphernalia informations, POWERBALL EURO E-MAILINTERNATIONAL
will decline payment if such irregularity occurs.
All participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from only Microsoft users from over 20,000.00 companies
and 3,000,000.00 individual email addresses and names from all
over the world. To begin your lottery claim, please contact our
agent below that have been appointed forthe processing of your
claim with your contact telephoneand fax number to begin the
processing of your payment.
ELIGIBILITY:
This promotion is offered only electronically via the Internet
and is open to all persons from age 18 years and above with a
valid email address and who live in any of the aforementioned
countries.This promotion is void in all other countries and is
also void where prohibited.Principals and employees of POWERBALL
EURO E-MAIL INTERNATIONAL Promos and its respective Parents,
subsidiaries and their immediate families are not eligible.
CLAIMS PROCEDURES:
It is our standard practice to allocate accredited agents for
the processing of claims application. It is even more imperative
for overseas winners. To begin your claims therefore, you are
advised as a matter of urgency, to contact the under listed
licensed and accredited claims agent for the processing of your
prize awards winning. Please contact the clearing house (through
your claims agent only) the body assigned with the verification
of all emergent winner. Therefore all protocols laid down by
them must be followed to facilitate your claims;
CONTACT NAME: PETER RAYMUND
CITY/ COUNTRY: LONDON, ENGLAND.
TELEPHONE: +4470 1112 1986
FAX: 44-871-715-5326
EMAIL: claimsofficial_1@yahoo.gr
(1) Being one of the lucky winners, you constitute entrant's
full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of our terms
and conditions of claims to avoid any discrepancy in the cause
of payment of your prize awards winning.
(2) To avoid double claims, you are advised to keep your winning
details very confidential, as any discrepancies resulting from a
breach of this confidentiality on the part of the winners will
be covered solely by such winner as our staffs are bound by the
oath of secrecy taken on employment.
Congratulations again from all our staffs and thank you for
being part of our Promotions program.
Sincerely,
Margaret Ferguson
Co-coordinator.
NB: PLEASE SEE THAT YOU QUOTE YOUR REF AND BATCH NUMBERS IN YOUR
Correspondence TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Nanocaust

At least it isn't a Nigerian prince trying to peddle penis pills.

Pritty much... or another advertisement for breast enlargment (witch I don't have any

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

You don't have enlargements or you don't have breasts? Because the latter is far more interesting than the former.

Breasts I am a guy and they still send that stuff to me.....maby they are trying to tell me something. Like I need to become a female and get some big tits :P lol

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I would agree


Well they started to get a bit smarted They used a real domain to send the email from (not a aol addy) "powerballlottery.net"

It says pritty much the same this with a reply to emial being from yahoo.gr

I disided to check out the domin for kicks and giggles and got this

http://webpod.whois.ws/whois-net/ip-...lllottery.net/

Quote:

Domain Name: powerballlottery.net

Status: clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited

Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Referral URL: http://www.enom.com

Expiration Date: 2008-03-07
Creation Date: 2002-03-07
Last Update Date: 2007-01-08

Name Servers:
ns1.sedoparking.com
ns2.sedoparking.com

How ya doing, buddy?