Thursday
Oct072010
For Your Consedration
October 7, 2010 Hello Dear email owner,
I am email to inform you that you are winning €951,968.76 EUR ($1,284,205.84 USD) in the 2010 Euro Millions email promotion. To claim winning prize moneys of €951,968.76 EUR ($1,284,205.84 USD), please to contact Barrister Felix A.G. for verify winnings with social secrutiny number or credit card number. Congrallations and...
Most truly yours,
Prince Hobubu
Thanks, Liz K. Did I mention I was stuck in London with no money? Could you help me out? I promise I'll pay you back.
Reader Comments (66)
Did you see that you made the Social Networking Map 2010?? The "Lake of Cake Wrecks" !! LOVE it.
http://mashable.com/2010/10/06/map-online-communities/
THAT is Hi-larious! And happy a nice day to you too.
haha! Excellent post.
You got that e-mail too??? Really??? Wow! We both won! I'm expecting my check any day now. I sent them my SS number, bank routing numbers, credit card numbers, mother's maiden name, bra size and the TV remote.
snort.
(crickets)....did I miss something?
No, no, no, you can't be the winner, because I am. I also just checked my email to learn that a friend had been mugged in Madrid . . . I'm going to send her all my winnings!
No - *I* am the winner of said funds!! I better send my ss number stat so I get the money before you!
Hilarious :)
I laughed harder at this one than I've laughed in a LONG time (although every day at CW is snort-worthy). Today's just hit my funny bone in the right place!
I got that London one on facebook too! Pretty creepy.
Great post though!
I have been getting a TON of these lately...
Conflagrations to you and to Penny!
Norine
Now how you guys have both won???
The e-mail I got said ++I++ won... (foot stomping heard in the background). I sent in all that personal info along with my first born child so I hope my check is on the way...
They better not have been fooling with ME!
(wink, wink)
Addie
Love it! Thanks for the laugh!!
Hey, I thought I was the only one the Price wrote to.
So Funny!
I LOVE it. My new saying from now on. I can't even say it without LOL.
Wow, we're all rich here.
Hmmm, should "happy" be a verb?
"I was feeling down, but then Emily came by and happied me up."
Bravo on "Social Secrutiny"! I had to double-check to make sure I'd read it properly.
(Have you heard MC Frontalot's nerdcore rap about email scams? It would make a great audio accompaniment to this post.)
Is that Barrister any relation to the Car Talk guys' law firm-
Dewey, Cheetam and Howe?
Love your post.
mocking
i get those emails all the time. The funniest ones are the ones coming from heads of state, or better yet PREVIOUS heads of state. There was one from Fidel Castro that was my favorite...
And that smiley face isn't round.
I got one of these faxes the other day at work! The son of the president of Liberia needs my help and I'll get 30% of his inheritance that his father (Exiled president currently living at the Hague) set up for him in American currency and banking systems. Did I mention that he sent this to me from a fax machine in a refugee camp?
I just deleted 6 of those e-mails this morning. I must be one of the luckiest people on the planet to win so many lottos.
Somehow, I managed to get the London Lottery one a month or so after I got back from visiting London... for one brief, blissful moment, I thought it might actually be real...
Yeah, not so much.
I get so many of the 419 scam emails. For a really good laugh regarding them, check out 419eater or scambaiter...both funny sites.
Happy a nice day!
Love it!
A CCC (patooie!) is what the senders of these excretions deserve.
Have a mice day, scammers. May the (police) force be with you (speedily).
Oh my God if I had a dollar for everyone of those emails I receive I would SERIOUSLY have some moola in the bank.
Everyone gets stuck in London, even people on my email list who have never been across the Atlantic send emails saying they are stuck there.
Is there some sort of black hole like force that sucks people in and holds them there until they update their virus protection software?
Of course I will help you your highness, you sound so sincere & after all, I'm rich now - aren't I?
How many thousands would you like?
Please, Everyone,
Settle down! There will be enough of my fortune for everyone. Just keep sending your SSN's and my secretary will take care of the paperwork.
Sincerely Yours,
Prince Hobubu
Love the Aladdin reference with "Prince Hobubu"... or at least I hope it was an Aladdin reference!
I think "Happy a nice day" is going to be my new catchphrase.
OMG! I never won anything on a blog before! I didn't even know I'd entered! Woot! Yay me!
My Social Secrutiny Number is 16.
Thanks so much! You definitely happied my nice day!
When sales people would tell my husband to "Have a nice day",he would reply "Thanks, but I have other plans."
lololololol!!1 :D
*giggle* *giggle* *snort*
I must have some really good spam protection, as I never have to hear the word unless heading to THE Monty restaurant.
Love Hobubu's note, though, spewing spam at my console. 'secrutiny' Ha!
My son's response to "Have a nice day!" is "Don't tell me what to do!"
Happie a nice day.
Sinsurly,
~~Di
Happy A Nice Day!
Oy!
Hmm. funny, I've gotten that email so many times that I will never have to work again! Just waiting for it.... Any day now.... guess I will have to amuse myself while I wait by looking at cakewrecks!
*snickers*
"Happy A Nice Day" will be my new slogan.
How can you be the winner when they told me that I was. *laughing* They only wanted all my information and my first born! That's not too much to ask, is it?
It would be funnier if it weren't so sad thinking that for every person who knows it's a scam there is at least one person getting scammed.
Congrallations - sounds like a word verification word. Speaking of which:
WV: milness - a mild illness
Prince Hobo it is you who are lucky! You have won the Goldbury bake off! Please send your credit card number so we can credit the prize winning funds to your account! Oh did we mention we're stuck with 400 non winning cakes? Would you like to buy one for charity? Only 29.95 plus S&H?
Very well job with the engrish!!!
its so bad, its funny,lol
I LOVE CAKE
My whole email address book got that letter from me today. It seems I lost my wallet in Spain this morning. The contents of my wallet won't get me to work next week.
I wish you had a "like" button for the comments. Custom Cakes by Penny's is hysterical!
WV-jecerle-jecerle we've all won!
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I dun gettit???
P.s my captcha is enteding