I WON $1,950,000.00 Or Did I?????

[ToadHill]

Gaterboy, nothing forced you to read this post or any other "spam" at this site.

 

[AndyM]

Gaterboy, nothing forced you to read this post or any other "spam" at this site.

Sorting through "SPAM" slows him down while searching for posts to correct!

 

[MarkStewart]

Look at this crap I received today. Supposedly I'm in line to receive 35% of the 35million. I better hurry up and send them all my personal info.




Hon. Edward Ramagoma.
Fax: +27 86 516 9687
Fax: +27 86 516 9688


I am Hon. Edward Ramagoma. The Financial Advisor and property management
to Mr. Kim Woo Choong, Daewoo Group founder. I have urgent and very
confidential business proposition for you. In October, 2004, a client of
mine Mr. Kim Woo Choong came to South Africa and made a fixed deposit
valued at US$35.5M with ABSA BANK SOUTH AFRICA.

However, Mr. Kim Woo Choong as been sentenced to 10 years in prison for
fraud and embezzlement relating to the collapse of the firm under 82
billion dollars of debt in one of the world's largest corporate failures.
Please use these links for more information:

CNN.com - Daewoo founder Kim gets 10-yr term - May 30, 2006
Asia Times Online :: Korea News and Korean Business and Economy, Pyongyang News
The News - International

This sum of US$35.5M is still sitting with ABSA BANK SOUTH AFRICA here and
no one will ever come forward to claim it; because I am the only person
that knows about the deposit with the bank and my client has been sent to
a long term jail. I am contacting you to assist in repatriating the money
and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable by ABSA BANK SOUTH AFRICA where this huge deposit
were lodged. This is the bank where my client had deposited this money
valued at US$35.5M.

Consequently, the bank issued me a notice to provide the owner/next of kin
or have the deposit confiscated within the next fourteen official working
days because of the long time deposit. Now I seek your consent to present
you as the owner/next of kin to my client since you are not his relative
so that the proceeds of this deposit with the bank valued at US$35.5M can
be paid to you and then you and I can share the money.

However, I would like to add here that upon your acceptance to assist me
in this deal, you will be rewarded with 35 percent of the total sum for
your honest assistance and co-operation, 5 percent for any expenses that
may come up during the transfer while 60 percent remain for me. I intend
to complete this deal within a few days from the date of receipt of the
following information from you:

1. Your Full Names, 2. Company Name, 3. Address, 4. Telephone and fax
numbers.

I have all necessary legal documents that will be used to back up claim
from the bank. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable me
seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law
and this deal is 100 percent risk free. Please get in touch with me to
enable us discuss further and send me your fax and telephone numbers.

Best regards,
Hon. Edward Ramagoma.

NOTE: Please dont reply to this email address for security reasons.
Contact me by my private Fax +27 86 516 9687 or +27 86 516 9688

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[Gatorboy]

Gaterboy, nothing forced you to read this post or any other "spam" at this site.

No 'E' in Gator.

Did I claim I was forced to read it? Actually I believe I used the word pleasure.

 

[SkyPup]

I've actually met educated people who retirement plan has been religiously purchasing lotto tickets every week......

 

[frank_f15]

sounds perfectly legit to me

 

[California]

I've actually met educated people who retirement plan has been religiously purchasing lotto tickets every week.

I used to report to a manager like that.

20 years ago when the state lottery began, many people in my office already participated in a paycheck pool where statistically each person should break even over several years. With the new lottery, they changed to buying lottery tickets with the office pot. Mathematically this changed the long term average win from 100% of the pot to only 40% payout.

Plus the pool winner was pressured to reinvest proceeds from winning tickets into more lottery tickets. Now we have a trend line from average 100% payback toward 0% payback if proceeds are continually 'reinvested'. Nobody wanted to think about this since it was more exciting than the old way. I had resisted pressure from that manager to join the pool when I started there, and didn't join under the new rules either.

So far as I know the same people are still working there and participating in that paycheck pool. As for me, I never participated, invested elsewhere, and retired at 54.

Every employee in that 60-person shop had at least a college minor in accounting and 100% had completed upper division Statistics and Probability. Maybe 1/4 had MBA's. I can't comprehend how they could ignore the inevitable results.

The office? It was the internal audit shop in a large branch of government. One major responsibility was to make detailed evaluations of efficiency and effectiveness in how $billions were spent!

 

[SkyPup]

They should have limited their lotto purchases to only what they cleared from the table in Vegas each year........ LOL

Your story was most interesting, a collective of informed cognitive dissonance....

 

[N80]

We, the citizens of South Carolina, now have joined the illustrious ranks of other progressive states and have our own State lottery. As a state that is at or near the bottom of every list of undesirable parameter one can think of in terms of poverty, education and health, our unofficial state motto is "Thank God for Mississippi!" Our lottery has the painfully ironic official title of "South Carolina Education Lottery". We have been assured that it will pull us up well into the 20th century in terms of education.

In truth, state lotteries are not significantly different from the claims these spammers make. The difference is that someone will, in fact get a payout. But, the odds of such a payout "approach zero" in statistics lingo.

No matter how you feel about the gambling, religion, ethics, politics or morals of a state lotto system, there is no denying that the poor and undereducated make up the primary source of income for the lottery. And it is so compelling that few can or will resist.

In this regard, there is no other way to characterise such a state institution but as a "stupid tax."

 

[California]

I like that. I've seen the lottery described as "a tax on people who are not very good at math", but Stupid Tax gets right to the point.