Venditoris: Beware of Scams

Yeah, sure. Gimme a break; complete with UCLA email address, Great British Pounds, Undisclosed-Recipient; my eight year old Grandson could create a more realistic scam email, if he was a crook.

Another example of “Why the jails are full”.

This is an exceptionally crude email hook pitch scam letter, not quite as unbelievable as Nigerian Letters, but apparently still effective as more gullible suckers try email.

From: “KENT COOPER”
To: Undisclosed-Recipient
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:46:16 -0700
Subject: Dear Esteemed Winner

Ref No: UK/nnnnXn/nn
Batch Number: mmm/mm/abmmm

Dear Esteemed Winner,

We are happy to announce to you that your email address has luckily won you the star-prize of 8,000000.00GBP (Eight Million Great British Pounds) in the recent UK National Lottery Online Free Draw.

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