Jun
Yahoo Internet Lottery
Did y’all here this? I am set to receive $420,000.00! I never knew this, but apparently Yahoo mail gives random cash prizes to their members. I just got notified, and in all the excitement, the people at Yahoo! dropped the exclamation mark. Not once in the mail I just got is there and exclamation mark anywhere. That saddens me some.
If you are not “excited” about giving me the money, then I don’t want it. I’m not saying that there should be multiple exclamation marks and stupid punctuation marks in the mail, but at least one exclamation mark after “Congratulations” is expected.
I also discovered today that the lottery is conducted by messenger.yahoo.com and that I am just one of the 12 guys chosen to be awarded. I am also expected to use part of the award money in the 1.3 Billion dollar international draw. Wait a minute. Isn’t this already international? I mean, I’m here in India, with a .co.in mail id and I got the email from awardmoney@yahoo.es. That’s as international as international is ever going to be for me.
To be eligible for the money, I am expected to perform such crimes as these:
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers…………………..
Batch number…………………Lwh 09445
Lotto number…………………..Lwh09446
Winning number……………….Lwh09447
To begin your claims, kindly contact your claims Agent;
Dr Jose Garcia of DUMEX SEGUROS MADRID SPAIN
Em ail:dmexseguros@aim.com
Tele:+34-687-193-286
You are required to forward him with the following details:
1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10.MARITAL STATUS
11.WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12 THE MONTH YOU WON……
13 AMOUNT WON……………….
Notice 11, 12, 13 above. The email I received had this information. Lord knows why I’m being asked to send them this back again. Perhaps they want to keep track of the people they managed to fool 
Also, having been a user of yahoo mail for years, I really don’t understand why they don’t already have my Name, Sex, Age, etc. Thankfully, there’s a gif animation in the message from yahoo that shows data transfer between two computers. A postcard (like thing) leaves one computer and enters the other. Symbolic don’t you think? Evidently the guy running the lottery has a nice heart and so he informs me (via the animation) that this is just his means to steal data from me.
I tell you, these guys are increasingly getting smarter. Or maybe, they are imagining that the world is growing stupider.
In other news, my brother just got an email from a troubled orphan who said “she kisses him extremely and waits for his positive reply”. Said she was keen to come to his country and continue her studies, if he’d help her get her hands on the $4.2 million her father left for her. She didn’t say this, but I guess her relatives must be troubling her. Happens all the time in Bollywood movies.
