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Another fake Microsoft lottery scam gets by the spam filter.
From: Microsoft Mega Lottery <peter_coleagent@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: microsoft_lotteryaward008@yahoo.com.hk
Date: 28 Feb 2008 10:51:21 -0500
Subject: MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT 2008
MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT 2008
REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L
BATCH: 4583JL/WIN
MICROSOFT EMAIL LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTION: UNITED KINGDOM Finally today, we
announce the winners of the MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS
PROGRAMS held
early this month 2008. Your company or your personal e-mail address,
attached
to winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100, With serial number 647489, consequently
won in the Tenth lottery category.
You have been approved for lump sums pay out of £850,000.00 (Eight hundred and
fifty thousand pounds sterlings) in cash Credited to file REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100. Selection process was carried
out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine
(TOPAZ) from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the
continents of the world.
Your random computerized email selection machine really sucks. It seems incapable of generating unique winning numbers.
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email
addresses from an
exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies
picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No
ticket were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket
numbers for representation and privacy. This is to encourage our prominent
Microsoft Internet Explorer users all over the world, and for the Continues use
of E-mail.
for the Continues use of E-mail - proofread much? Since I don’t use Microsoft Internet Explorer, your “selection process” obviously failed.
Your fund has been insured with your REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and
winning number
23-76-06-54-42-100. To claim your winning prize, You are to reply to this
letter In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember
to quote your reference and winning numbers in all correspondences with your
claims officer. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general
public especially your ticket number and ballot number.(This is important as a
case of double claims will not be entertained)
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU ARE TO SEND THE BELOW INFORMATION REQUIRED TO CLAIM YOUR
WINNING PRIZE:
1. Full Name: ……………………………………………………..
2. Address: …………………………………………………………
3. Nationality: …………………………………………………….
4. Age: …………………….Date of Birth: …………………..
5. Occupation: …………………………………………………….
6. Phone: ……………Phone 2: ……………….Fax: no……..
7. State of Origin: ………………….Country: ………………
Rev.Mike Smith
Rev.? Are we supposed to be impressed?
Online Co-ordinator
LOTTERY SPONSOR
Microsoft Corporation U.K.
2008
Why would “Microsoft Corporation U.K.” use a Yahoo Hong Kong email address and why would it send email from a computer in Nigeria?
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(via sekmet )
My budget blueprint will restrain spending, yet meet growing needs with a reasonable 4 percent growth rate, which is a little more than inflation. After paying the bills, my plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we’re going to run out of debt to retire. That would be a good worry to have.
— George W. Bush (Radio Address by the President to the Nation: February 24, 2001)
A Bold Taste Goes Where It Has Never Gone Before:
Now kimchi is set to conquer the final frontier: space.
When South Korea’s first astronaut, Ko San, blasts off April 8 aboard a Russian spaceship bound for the International Space Station, the beloved national dish will be on board.
Three top government research institutes spent millions of dollars and several years perfecting a version of kimchi that would not turn dangerous when exposed to cosmic rays or other forms of radiation and would not put off non-Korean astronauts with its pungency.
Just how good could kimchi that “would not put off non-Korean astronauts with its pungency” be? 
(via Dunner’s)
The Rules:
- You have to look up page 123 in the nearest book around you.
- Look for the fifth sentence.
- Then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page 123.
- And then tag five people, just like you were tagged!
Let’s see… My home office is packed with books, so I’ll also do both fiction and non-fiction.
Fiction: Unknown Means by Elizabeth Becka (by my desk because it just arrived in the mail a few days ago)
Maybe not.
No one wanted to think of Marissa as a victim. Marissa least of all. But if Evelyn tried to avoid the topic, people would assume there has to be more to the story. Nothing beat a good drama like a terrific conspiracy.
Non-Fiction:
The ACE Programmer’s Guide: Practical Design Patterns for Network and Systems Programming by Stephen D. Huston, James CE Johnson, & Umar Syyid (I was using it as a reference yesterday)
This is an application of the Strategy pattern [3], which allows you to change your “strategy” without making large changes to you implementation.
To facilitate changing one set of IPC wrappers for another, ACE’s are related in sets:
[list deleted]
Each class abstracts a bit of low level mess of traditional socket programming.
All together, the classes create an easy-to-use type-safe mechanism for creating distributed applications.
We won’t show you everything they can do, but what we do show covers about 80 percent of the things you’ll normally need to do.
I’ll tag (a more or less random selection from my blogroll):
Another Oxford lottery scam gets by the spam filter…
From: Oxford Online Lottery <line-17@earthlink.net>
earthlink.net - Why would something called “OXFORD ONLINE LOTTERY” use an Earthlink email address?
Reply-To: Oxford Online Lottery <line-17@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:26:13 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: Annual Draw Winner
Oxford Lottery H.Q
32 Hurst Street
Birmingham, B5 4TB
United Kingdom
Congratulations!!!!
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 23rd Febuary 2008, Oxford International Lottery programme would like to notify you that you have been chosen by the board of Lottery House as the full recipient of a cash Grant/Donation for your own personal, educational, Working and business development to receive the sum of £1,000,000.000 one million pounds.
You hereby have been approved a lump sum of £1, 000, 000, 00. GBP in cash credit to file ref ILP/HW 475/07 as one of the lucky winner , all participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses all over the World as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. No ticket were sold.
Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to serial numbers OXS/7060442302/07/BL and drew the lucky numbers 14-88-12-99-07-52(40)BL which subsequently won you £1,000.000.00 (One Million Great Britain Pounds)` as one of the 10 jackpot lucky winners in this draw.
Contact your fiduciary agent on the next procedures on how to claim your prize via email and telephone:
Dr. Martin Jean.
Email: oxfordclaims2008@live.co.uk
Tel: +44 704 5754 658
PERSONAL DATA FORM:
NAMES:
ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
TEL:
FAX:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
ANNUAL INCOME:
One has to wonder why a lottery would need to know my annual income…
You are advised to contact your fiduciary agent with your details as indicated in this winning Notification.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Carol Smith.
(Online Announcer)
I must really be lucky, because I’ve apparently won the Oxford Online Lottery twice.
One day someone will explain to me why the “Oxford Online Lottery” would send email from Nigeria via a computer in the U.S.A.
(via What’s new by Bob Park - Friday, February 22, 2008)
2. ANTISATELLITE WEAPONS: THE HYDRAZINE DECEPTION.
What do you do when a newly-emergent space power shows off its new anti- satellite capability, as China did last year? Well, you have to show that you too can shoot down a satellite. It’s relatively easy - satellites aren’t evasive and they keep doing the same thing over and over. To avoid violating treaties, you could sell it as a mission to save innocent lives from a rampaging tank of hydrazine. “If you inhale a lot of it, it could be deadly,” said the general in charge. The same is probably true of acetone, absinthe and toilet bowl cleaner to name a few. Anyway, the Navy did its part well. Unfortunately, as other countries flex their muscles in space it could be open season on dead school buses (there’s a lot of them).
(via dci.org)
Fans will make the call with 2008 ‘Countdown’ cinema event
Drum corps fans will get their chance to “make the call” as they select – and then judge – their favorite performances of the world’s most elite marching music ensembles as part of Drum Corps International’s 2008 spring cinema event, “The Countdown.”
Coming to National CineMedia theaters across the U.S. on Thursday, April 24, the program will feature six full-length corps performances from among the 36 World Championship finalists of 2005, 2006 and 2007, as chosen by fans during an online vote starting Wednesday, Feb. 27. The individual corps receiving the most votes (with no corps appearing more than once) will comprise the lineup for this special cinema event. But the fun doesn’t stop there!
the program will feature six full-length corps performances from among the 36 World Championship finalists of 2005, 2006 and 2007 - I’m sure I not alone in wanting to see a few shows from before 2005…
Yet another easy money scam gets by the spam filter…
From: James Campbell <mark.swansonjunior@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jcampbel22@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:22:08 -0500
Subject: Get Back To Me Urgently
From The Office Of
James Campbell Esq.
William & Associates
Phone: +44-7045719175
Fax: 44-7006-044-244
Email: jcampbel22@gmail.com
My name is James Campbell, the personal attorney to
David Williams and I am contacting you in regards to
some funds deposited with a bank by my late client
Mr. David Williams who is now deceased and leaving
no known relatives to claim the fund.
What does this have to do with me?
After a series of search for a reliable person who I
can establish in claim of the fund, I contacted you
and my contact with you is based on a legitimate
arrangement. I am contacting you because I feel I
could trust you. The fund in the bank is $9.5million
dollars.
I must really be a “reliable person” because I’ve gotten several of these kind of emails.
Due to the importance of this matter, I would
appreciate if you can write me back to enable me
detail you further about this matter. I do
understand that this will sound so skeptical but I
assure you that it is legitimate. Please you are not
compelled to proceed with me because I require
someone that is highly responsible and trust worthy.
How exactly would someone who would get involved with such an obvious scam be considered highly responsible and trust worthy?
I will not release every information regarding this
matter until I hear back from you.
Then if I am satisfied, I will detail you with every
information regarding this transaction and also give
you more information about myself to enable you have
an idea of the person that you are dealing with. We
shall negotiation the percentage split during our future
correspondence.
We
shall negotiation the percentage split during our future
correspondence — How about - me: 100%, you 0%.
I await your immediate response.
You may wait…
Best regards,
James Campbell (Esq.)
Who the fsck is Mark Swanson (mark.swansonjunior@yahoo.com)? Mr. Campbell never mentions he sent this email from Nigeria…
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Hello, GORRY-O!! I'm a GENIUS from HARVARD!!
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