Another Lottery Win!

Hot on the heels of my being informed that I'd won a BMW and 550,000 Euros, comes another e-mail telling me I've won another lottery. I must be the luckiest person alive!

This time, according to an e-mail I've just received, I've won '500,000 US Dollars' !

Hang on, this is a lottery that is allegedly sponsored by the United Nations, I didn't know they were even in the lottery business? Yet again I don't remember entering any lottery!

Here are a couple of screenshots, showing the whole e-mail in all its glory:




Looks very professional and believable doesn't it?

However, it seems that the United Nations are also so short of money that they can't afford their own e-mail system and have to rely on AOL accounts too. If so then why are they running this lottery and giving me 500,000 US Dollars, surely that money would pay for a 'real' e-mail system? ;-)

Just to make it crystal clear, this is a scam, there is no money, and I haven't really won anything....Again!

I'm sure that the United Nations will be delighted to know their name is being used to help make a scam [in this case it is an Advance-Fee Fraud also known as a 419 or Nigerian scam] more believable?

Oh, and have any of you reading this ever met or known someone with a first name of 'Happy' or 'Stillwant', I mean they cannot be serious, can they?