I won the lottery!!!!
OK, see you later suckers! I just got this mail (bold parts added by myself) and I’m outta here!
ATTENTION: WINNER
This is to inform you that you have been selected
for a cash prize of €850,000.000.00
(Eight Hundred & Fifty Thousand
Euros Only) in our promoting program held on the 14th of Aug,2008/ The
selection process was carried out through random-selection in Our
computerized email selection system (ess) from a database of over
95,000 e-mail addresses drawn, were selected globally
( Email-
award/Postcodesloterij nl.) .
Contact our claim department with the
below info :
Name: Mr. Van Der Wal (AD)
Claims-Office/Email:
geldkantor@gmail.com
Tell: +31-68-144-8820
REF NO: NL/44267998/5110
BATCH NO: NL/9922/0855
This program is organize to promote our
Postcodesloterij award yearly, also we are very skeptical due to
unsolicited/Spam mails on the net this days, that is why the claim
process is being handled by our (advocate).
Also you are advice to
forward your batch number and ref number to the claim department for
claim process
Sincerely Yours,
Email:Cheers,
Mrs.Samantha De Witt
THE
PROMOTION COORDINATOR
They didn’t mention my name, nor did I ever play the lottery, but I feel so honoured for having been selected. It also wasn’t recognised as spam, so it must be real!!!
Booking my world-trip now…
Vincent
P.S. If you want to win the lottery too, here is the IP which this mail originated from 87.210.73.31 and the mail-adress: lupimarsicani@virgilio.it.
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Vince, that last IP and e-mail address could probably belong to a victim whose computer was taken over, so there’s not really any reason to post them. (A quick whois tells that the IP belongs to a Dutch ISP Versatel’s block.)
In Finland, by law and communication agency & ISP co-operation, incoming and outgoing smtp (port 25) is blocked in all consumer connections, except to ISP’s own smtp server. I think this policy is pretty good to deter zombies from sending massive amounts of spam. I hope this policy would be more common, because there’s not really any reason to host your own smtp-server anymore.