Blogging has made me RICH!!
August 4th, 2007 | by Brook Durant |
Blogging has made me RICH!!
After a little over three weeks as an official part of the blogging community I would like to announce my new found riches! I just now opened my blog email to discover this notification sitting in there. Sorry all of you “One year” folks. Looks like some of us are just more blessed than others.
Read it and weep!

The British National Lottery (How's that for official?) P O Box 1010 3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park, Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD (Customer Services) (So kind of the customer services to contact me to give me money) Ref Number: UK/9420X/05 Batch Number: 074/05/ZY369 Ticket number: 56475600545 188 Lucky Numbers: 05,06,17,20,28,42 (Bonus33) (Remind me to thank whomever picked this lottery number for me) Dear Winner (That would be me) We wish to congratulate and inform you on the selection of cash prize of £ 1,200,000.00 (British Pounds) (Which equates to 2,451,005.42 USD) held on the 28th July 2007 in London Uk. The selection process was carried out through random selection in Our computerized email selection system (ess) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected.(Sweet! I'm a big fan of being selected for things without entering them) And Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 05, 06, 17, 20, 28, 42 (Bonus 33), which subsequently won you the lottery in the 1st category i.e match 5 plus bonus. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of One Million Two Hundred Thousand Pounds, in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total cash prize of £ 1,200,000.00 Million Pounds, shared amongst the (5) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 6 plus bonus. For due processing of your winning claim, please contact the FIDUCIARY AGENT Information Officer Mr. Richard Carpenter (Fiduciary Agent Information Officer! Check out that mans title!) who has been assigned to assist you. You are to contact him with the following details for the release of your winnings. ============================================== The Fiduciary Claims are below: Mr. Richard Carpenter, Tel: +44 704-571-0545 Email: richardlotteryclaimdept07@yahoo.co.uk (A Yahoo email address for the British National Lottery? Strange) ============================================== contact him, please provide him with the following Requirements below: (You bet your life I will) Claims Requirements: 1.Name in full------------------------------ 2.Address--------------------------------- 3.Nationality------------------------------- 4.Age------------------------------------- 5.Sex------------------------------------- 6.Occupation------------------------------ 7.Phone/Fax------------------------------ 8.Present Country------------------------ 9.Date You Received This Notification----------- ============================================= If you do not contact your claims agent within 5 working days of this Notification, your winnings would be revoked. Winners are advised to keep their winning details/information from the public to avoid double claim (IMPORTANT) pending the prize claim by Winner. *Winner under the age of 18 are automatically disqualified. *Staff of the British Lottery are not to partake in this Lottery. Accept my hearty congratulations once again! Regards Mrs. Stella Ellis (Group Coordinator Note that you are not (Sounds like a very powerful woman, this Stella Ellis)to reply to this E-mail, please contact your Fiduciary Agent directly to start the processing of your claims application form.
Now all I need is to find that email from the Nigerian I keep meaning to answer and I’ll laugh all the way to the bank!
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By Etienne Teo on Aug 4, 2007
I have also received this get rich scheme lottery email, what a loser spam..
Rdgs
Etienne
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By B. Durant on Aug 4, 2007
Yeah I think pretty much everyone got it. Though I wonder if anyone ever did something legitimate like that would anyone ever respond to it or are we all so callous from these fakes?
By LOBO on Aug 4, 2007
I got the same email along with that colon cleansing one lol!
By cooliojones on Aug 5, 2007
So does this mean you will be quitting your day job now?
Oh, by the way, you probably know this but Internet Explorer is not kind to your blog at all! It’s not kind to mine either.
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By Bob on Aug 5, 2007
Ah, I didn’t get one, your sooo lucky
By B. Durant on Aug 5, 2007
Coolio - Quitting? Past tense? Ha! Did that right when I saw the header for the email proclaiming me the winner
And yeah I know about IE. Premade template haven’t had time (or the desire) to dig into the html and figure out the issues yet.
Bob - That’s ok Bob we won’t hold it against you.
By Ross on Aug 5, 2007
I get loads from jokers like these - Do they expect me to be fooled by a yahoo email address for the UK’s main gambling/lottery companies - get real.
By B. Durant on Aug 5, 2007
Ross - No kidding huh.
By Muhammed on Sep 2007 on Sep 10, 2007
I also receive the same email, can you belive how am my email adds can win a milliom without entering any contes or competition
By Vic on Sep 10, 2007
Hey is this for real or is it one of those
get rich hoaxes??
By A Blog about Nothing on Sep 10, 2007
Muhammed - Hey thanks for stopping by! Yeah it’s scary how many you get. I get probably 3 or 4 a week.
Vic - It’s a scam. As the saying goes “If it looks too good to be true, it probably is”
By Jasper on Dec 17, 2007
I also received emails like this… “my next of kin”. He said that I have to hurry because he’s about about to die. I tried following his instructions to contact the lawyer. It’s so annoying that the lawyer always calls me through my cellphone for the payment of 300 dollars. I tried searching his name through search engines and I saw a lot of results that states spam or scam texts. Whew! I almost spare my money for nothing.
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By A Blog about Nothing on Dec 18, 2007
Jasper - You’re joking right? You didn’t actually believe you might have a long lost rich relative did you? Seriously…