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Well, I missed out on Powerball, but I did win EUR 650,000 from EuroMillions! (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Nov 2022 OP
🤣🤣🤣🤣 irisblue Nov 2022 #1
A toast to you! You're almost a minigarch! ancianita Nov 2022 #2
Happens to me occasionally. Aussie105 Nov 2022 #3
Your uncle from Nigeria entered your numbers. twodogsbarking Nov 2022 #4
I heard of exactly one guy who actually scammed the scammers DFW Nov 2022 #5

Aussie105

(5,434 posts)
3. Happens to me occasionally.
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 07:10 AM
Nov 2022

I've won millions.
Must get around to claiming those sometime. No rush.

Seriously, how transparent can some scams be?


DFW

(54,437 posts)
5. I heard of exactly one guy who actually scammed the scammers
Thu Nov 10, 2022, 08:09 AM
Nov 2022

He got the usual, "I need $10,000 to free up millions, of which you can have half" email.

He said absolutely! He was in. In fact, he had a trust fund worth half a million that he would gladly invest, Unfortunately there was a penalty clause in place that blocked him from access to the half million for ten years, so if the scammers would please contact him again in ten years, he would be happy to send the money. They tried every suggestion, but he said no, his funds were blocked, in the hands of lawyers with specific instructions, etc., but in ten years, he would be ready and willing! He just didn't have the $10,000 to pay the penalty, and how he WISHED he did, etc etc. They actually SENT him the $10,000, upon which his email account (and fictitious address) vanished from the face of the earth.

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