A major mistake to avoid if you are a lottery scammer would be to send out the exact same mail more than once. Especially using the exact same ticket number (5647560054 188), the same serial number (5368/02) and even the same lucky numbers (50-18-22-24-32-33) more than once.

Tonight when I received two emails with these numbers, to two of my e-mail accounts, I searched my mailboxes for more instances. And sure enough: These exact numbers where mentioned in no less than five lottery scam emails. The first time I saw a lottery scam using these numbers was over a year ago.

A search for [5647560054 188] on Google actually returns 74 results. All mentioning the same lottery scam. One of them is from this site, published on January 15, 2005. [Read it here!] Read the rest of this entry »

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Here we go again. Yet another time I’m disqualifying myself from a million Euro lottery cash price. A bogus cash price from a non-existent lottery announced by a scammer who’s after the petty cash he can pull in from bogus registration fees and courier services, that is.

It’s amazing that I still get these scam attempts. You could think that these scammers whould start making black lists over the people that insist on publishing their mails… Read the rest of this entry »

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04/11 2006 - Wow! It was so long since a 419 mail slipped through my double spam protection, that I’m almost excited to hav received one. And such a gem it is. Complete with all-caps, a dead father, a surviving son and daughter with the exotic name Kady Bakassa… and a deposit of 7 million Euros, that the two syblings wants me to take care of and help them invest.

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