You should be so lucky
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I must be the luckiest person alive. At least, that’s what some people might have thought if they had seen my inbox this morning. I had exactly three emails waiting:
Email number one declared that I had won some sort of sweepstakes without even entering. The prize was 1.5 million British pounds. At the current exchange rate, that’s about $2,294,970 US Dollars according to an online conversion site that I use.
Email number two was from some credit company explaining that one of their clients had been killed in an airplane crash and left no next of kin. This unscrupulous person offered me 40% of his client’s 10.5 million dollar account if I would help him move the money out of his client’s account. My share of that transaction is 4.2 million dollars.
Email number three was another company wanting me to provide them with my correct bank account information so they can complete the transfer of an enexplained 3.6 million dollar payment.
All together that’s $10,094,970 USD I got while I slept last night. Aren’t you jealous?
Honestly, though, I’ve seen enough stuff like this to know three things:
1) I am not going to win a sweepstakes which I’ve never entered.
2) Even if some guy IS going to split the money 60-40 with me, I probably don’t want to be involved in a transaction that involves me lying about being related to someone.
3) I will never, ever, under any circumstances, email my bank account information to a total stranger - especially one who should already have that information if they are who they claim to be.
So, instead of planning a trip to vegas, I just forwarded all three emails to the reporting address for spamcop.net and went on with my (decidedly non-multi-millionaire-ish) life.
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