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Posted: Sunday, 1:59 PM (May 28, 2006)

Holy crap, I just won the lottery twice!

A few days ago, I recieved the following email:

TSOF EURO SWEEPSTAKES LOTTERY psofeurolottery@gawab.com RESULTS STAATSLOTERIJ.NL AWARD. No 21 MANNI-STRAAT 1309HA AMSTERDAM NETHERLANDS FROM THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR: TSOF INTERNATIONAL PRIZE AWARD DEPT WINNING NOTIFICATION FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY. MAY YOU BE INFORMED. THIS IS THE FINAL NOTIFICATION We are pleased to inform you of the result of the last final annual draw of our LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL Programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000,000 e-mail addresses of individuals and corporate institutions,picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold. During this automated computer balloting, your e-mail address emerged as a winner in the category "A" with the following numbers attached Ref Number: AA #### AA ####,Batch Number: ##########-AA/#### and Ticket Number: AA #### /####-##.

(Ref number, batch number, and ticket number blanked out for my security)

You have won the cash prize of €1,500,000.00. (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro's)from the total payout. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

HOLY CRAP! 1.5 million euros! That's just under 2 million USD!!

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you, upon meeting our statutory obligations, verifications and validations. To file in for the processing of your prize win, you are advised to contact our Certified and Accredited claims agent for category "A" winners with the information below: Name: Paul Vanfrant Email: quadclams@netscape.net Tel : +31 616 231 495 You are advised to provide him with the following information: 1.Given Name (As Stated in your mail registration) 2.Telephone/Fax number: 3.Nationality: 4.Age:

Of course, I'll give whatever information you require. You name it, I'll hand it over.

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 14 days, all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lottery information confidential, especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important, as a case of double claim will not be tolerated). Members of affiliated agencies are Prohibited from participating in this program. Furthermore, should there be any change of address, do inform our agent as soon as possible. Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our Promotional Program. Kindest regards, Dr. Deborah Kooy. President. Tsof Sweepstakes All your response must be directed through your claim agent. This is a security measure. *************************************************** **************************************************** **************** This email contains confidential privileged information. The information is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure,copying, distribution or use of the contents is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the material from your computer. *************************************************** **************************************************** ****************

I know they said that it is confidential, but I'm just so excited... I WON THE LOTTERY! I have to tell people...


Now, I was pretty happy about winning the lottery, especially since I didn't even know that I was entered! However, before I could even reply, I got another email. As it turns out, I won a second lottery!

Sir/Madam *NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING* This email confirms that you have been notified of by the DE GOLDSTAR E-GAMES LOTTO BV DE Netherlands of your email lottery winning for 2006 GOLDSTAR LOTTO - Wheel E-game held on 13th May 2006. We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon number, which was selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners. Your email ID identified with Coupon No.AA###### and was selected by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among the 50,000 different email addresses where submitted by our partner international email provider companies. Ref Number: #####/###-#####/AAA Lottery Group: Consolation Prize Group Prize Amount: 1.500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Euro Only) You are required to file claims for your lottery prize winning by contacting the Lottery Claims Processing Officer with your winning information provided above before 14 working days. Lottery Claims Officer: Mr. James Keller TEL:31-644-911-685 FAX:31-847-520-740 Email:claimsdirectordirector33@netscape.net Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotional program. Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically disqualified. Yours truly, Mrs.Sara Borsch (Secretary). NB:all response and mail received from this company should be mailed to claimsdirector33@netscape.net

My email address must be the luckiest one in the world! I won 3,000,000 euros (3.8 million USD) from two lotteries within a few hours of eachother.

I'm going to reply right away to collect my winnings, I'll let you all know when I get my money.

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