Lucky me!

[GomJabbar]

I just got this in an email today...

!CONGRATULATIONS!
YOUR EMAIL LEGACY PRIZE ALERT NOTIFICATION
This is to acknlowledge the reciept of your email legacy to you.your
email address was attach to the following

Ticket number: CQ428I
Reference number: 93114
batch number: #0431CH

Your email address was selected from a data base of over 234,509 by an
email electronic election which your email address was tagged as the
lucky winner of the cash prize of $2.5 million in the toyota sweepstake
online draw held in cape town,south africa on the 19th Decemeber 2006.

The toyota sweepstake online promotion is approved and licensed by the
british gaming board.

As a result of the draw the toyota organization has signed and released
your legacy fund of $2.5 million to you

To cliam your cash prize,contact the link below:
Mr. flins coker
assigned cliam agent
email contact address: claimsagent_toyotapromo1@yahoo.com

when contacting him provide him your personnal secret code number and
reference number for identification.

congrate once more

regards
mrs. bliss nopy
toyota promo co-ordinator
N.B: you are advice to keep your winnings from the public to avoid
fraudlent cliams SECRET CODE: 5P9RQ

Hmmm.... I believe "Toyota" needs to run their email through a spell-checker.

[bigtiger]

Wow, congra! A big prize for new year!

My spam fighter has worked very busy keeping my prizes away. Maybe I should do sth in case I miss some prizes.

[joester]

Wow, just like the one I recieved!!!

Right down to misspelling!!!

Let's BOTH claim our winnings and buy everyone on the Thinkpad forum a new laptop, and give Bill a nice fat check to help support this site!!!

Hey...WAIT A MINUTE!!! HOW DID YOU GET MY SECRET CLAIM NUMBER????

[pianowizard]

I am even luckier because I get about 160 similar messages everyday!

[ronbo613]

They are giving out $2.5 million but use Yahoo! email? Hmmm...
Heck, I can get you Viagra for $.25 ea from Siberia.

[NS]

I have received this type of emails everyday. Luckily my spam filter is strong enough to deter these spammers away and contain them in my spam inbox.

Emails ranging from transferring money to me when someone whom i do not even know passed away (4 million USD) and keep asking me for my ID and all my particluars and my bank account number and i have received the same email like Gomjabbar's.

So far, my gamil account, hotmail account and my school email account has received countless of spam emails and some chinese spamming emails asking me to donate some money to the taiwan earthquake victims and never leave me their company ID for me to call in to check if it's real and also give me their yahoo email address when they should have their own company email domain ID.

Sounds suspicious when they leave you their email address from free email providers and not from their own company.

Guys from thinkpad forum, please do exercise extreme precaution when you received these type of spam in your email inbox.

Regards,

[jdhurst]

Rubbish, all of it. Between SpamAssassin and grey-listing, I no longer see this stuff. Saving my pennies makes me wealthier
... JD Hurst

[JHEM]

Saving my pennies makes me wealthier

"If you watch the pennies, the dollars will watch themselves!"

Henry Ford the First

[GomJabbar]

Rubbish, all of it. Between SpamAssassin and grey-listing, I no longer see this stuff.

I just use Earthlink's spamblocker. I have it set to the medium setting. What gets through that is caught by my junk mail controls in Netcape Mail. What gets through that is not that much of a bother. This is one that got through both. Even the ones that get through I very rarely open. This is one that piqued my curiosity enough to get opened.

[joester]

I hope you guys wouldn't really think we would fall for those things... after all, Not EVERYBODY is an AOL user...

Come to think of it, I cannot recall encountering one Thinkpad user with an AOL account.

Isn't that who the Gateways and E-Machines (same thing, actually) were made for???

[rkawakami]

Come to think of it, I cannot recall encountering one Thinkpad user with an AOL account.

Easy now... Don't be bashing all AOL users! I have had my AOL address ever since I've been online simply because it was relatively cheap and available everywhere. That I should have invested in the company back in those days really bothers me. The calculations I made a couple of years ago said that if I had bought about $4000 shares at IPO and sold right before the dotcom bust, I would have had seven figures. So, yeah, you can say I was clueless about that!

P.S. I get way more of these "winning" emails on my Yahoo address then I do with AOL. Come to think of it, my work e-mail gets more of these easy money schemes than AOL too. The corporate spam filters do identify them and automatically places them in my trash folder. That what I get for posting email address in the clear on USENET!

[joester]

OK, My apologies if anyone offended, but I can only relate my experiences with "fixing" computers for people.
Most of what I see is AOL intervention and downloads of everything AOL has to offer.
I repaired one computer of a 20 minute boot up just by removing all the AOL stuff. Yes, it was an older model, but it was way too long for a boot up.
Using AOL as a basic connection wouldn't be so bad I guess, but I still can't see spending as much for dialup as for DSL.
I suppose if you add spyware, virus, and spam software, it might add up, but I won't pay that much and I would rather manage my own computer than to allow someone else to do it for me.

Just my preference I guess.

Joe