p2p news / p2pnet: p2pnet gets four or five lottery ‘win’ announcements every day, together with the usual crop of emails from sons of various African prime ministers, financial secretaries, brigadier generals who’ve been guarding secret hoards of cash. And so on.

In short, the usual Nigerian and, increasingly, other, 419 scam-spams.

As we reported recently, “Microsoft is to work with the Nigerian government to help track down and prosecute criminals involved in 419 email scams and other internet-based fraud originating from the African country.”

It’s therefore only fitting that Microsoft is itself the front end of another lottery win con.

“We happily announce to you the draw of the Microsoft United Kingdom, New year internet promotions programs held on the 31st of January, 2006 in London,” says Mrs Magret [sic] Spencer in the ‘announcement’.

“Congratulations! You are among the ten (10) randomly selected for the New year promotions held in London. Selection was made using special software to generate valid email addresses at random from over 40,000 company and 20,000,000 individual email addresses from all over the world.”

Needless to say, we’ll be cashing in on this windfall and moving p2pnet to its new home on a sunny, tropical isle. We’ll let you know where that is as soon as we’ve found it.

Thanks, Bill.

Meanwhile, for your interest and entertainment, below, in full, is the most recent “Kindly accept my apology …” missive.

Subject: From : – Mrs Suzana
From: Mrs. Suzana Vaye
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:05:36 +0100
To: jon@p2pnet.net
This is a multi-part message in MIME format –666a13ef-2c2a-4209-8062-52d9cc492616
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
From : – Mrs Suzana

Kindly accept my apology for sending this mail to you. It is neither a sales solicitation nor spam.

Though, I do not know how conversant you are with events and the fragile political situation in Liberia, it has made consistent headlines on CNN, BBC and several news bulletins around the world.

I am Mrs.Suzana Vaye, wife of the late Deputy Minister of Works in Liberia (Isaac Nuhan Vaye) who was murdered by Taylor during the regime of President Charles Taylor on the false accusation and trumped up charges of trying to overthrow Charles Taylor.

You can verify this from many international newspapers like the one posted on the web site below: (nada)

During my husband’s stay in office, he raised a substantial amount of money from Diamond Sales over a period of 6 years and these funds were carefully moved out through legal means and deposited in a Security Firm in Spain.

The amount accrued from the Diamond sales is USD58.6M (Fifty Eight ponit [sic] Six Million U.S.Dollars Only) and I confirm that these funds are fully free of any liens, and are clean and without no criminal origin.

My Children and I have been confined only to our country home since the death of my husband and all our calls and movements are monitored. But five months ago I and my two children were smuggled through the help of our family lawyer of out of Liberia to Spain where we are presently under the care of United Nation as refugges [sic].

And as result of my status I cannot claim the said fund, hence I am soliciting for your assistance to relocate the fund with your identit [sic] so as to assume access to the fund.

My only means of communication is via internet email:- suzan71vaye@netscape.net

Let’s see. Shall we go for the lottery win? Nah. It doesn’t say how much. But USD58.6M (Fifty Eight ponit [sic] Six Million U.S.Dollars Only)?

The choice is clear ……….

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