I won a whole bunch of money – see this is what happens when your email is out there for all and sundry. I got the email below at 8.24 tonight. Should I contact the guy? Maybe not…I wonder if IKEA knows about Rachel?
HOLA MORNING
This is to inform you that your e-mail address have been selected as a winner in the
Ikea Corporations Lottery draw of 500,000.00Euros (Five Hundred Thousand Euros)
which was held on the 4th of Feb 2010. Contact the officer in charge for further
details & enquiry.
Organized by Ikea Corporations and your e-mail address attached to the Email,
Ref No: Ikea-54-BX
Batch No: Ikea-G001
Qualification No: Ikea-6747
All winnings must be claimed not later than seven working days,thereafter unclaimed
funds would be included in the next stake.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Rachel Miguel
Public Announcer
Msft Promo Cordinator.
what!? I thought *I* won! There’s obviously been a mistake. Should we split the winnings?
Ha! I guess that would be the only decent thing to do.
Just don’t do it!
I got it too and a little search with google says:
“This is a scam mail! Don’t answer it just delet it!”
Source: http://www.scamwarners.com
I know – I posted it as a joke! Amazing how many people got it the same email.
C