Geographical howlers

[oggbashan]

I received one of the usual 'Congratulations! You have won!' spam messages for a lottery I hadn't entered.

The address was interesting:

From: Mr. Felix moor
Euro-Afro-American-Sweepstake Lottery
Headquarters:1a, Bexon Court Carlton Liverpool
shire Liverpool LP4 1SQ Essex
United Kingdom

For US residents who aren't aware of UK addresses, Liverpool is NOT a shire and it certainly isn't in Essex. It is as bad a mistake as suggesting that Chicago is in Florida.

All they want is my personal information including bank details and they'll send me my share of the 11 million dollars I have won. Please send to South Africa...

I don't think I will. Their South Africa sounds very much like Nigeria.

Og

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I received one of the usual 'Congratulations! You have won!' spam messages for a lottery I hadn't entered.

The address was interesting:

From: Mr. Felix moor
Euro-Afro-American-Sweepstake Lottery
Headquarters:1a, Bexon Court Carlton Liverpool
shire Liverpool LP4 1SQ Essex
United Kingdom

For US residents who aren't aware of UK addresses, Liverpool is NOT a shire and it certainly isn't in Essex. It is as bad a mistake as suggesting that Chicago is in Florida.

All they want is my personal information including bank details and they'll send me my share of the 11 million dollars I have won. Please send to South Africa...

I don't think I will. Their South Africa sounds very much like Nigeria.

Og

I inadvertantly saw "Dr Phil" as I was flipping though the channels on Friday. I could not believe how women could be so taken in by Nigerian "Boiler Rooms" on the internet. Sending them thousands of dollars?

 

[R. Richard]

All they want is my personal information including bank details and they'll send me my share of the 11 million dollars I have won. Please send to South Africa...

I don't think I will. Their South Africa sounds very much like Nigeria.

Og

Og:
Since you may be in a position to do something with the idea, what the police should do is to set up a fake bank account [with the cooperation of the bank.] Then, when someone in South Africa tries to transfer funds from the fake bank account to an account in South Africa, the police down there could take action and maybe throw the people running the scam into jail.

 

[rgraham666]

Cons are really simple at their heart.

The mark must a) have money and b) be greedy about wanting more. Everything is simple after that.

The internet automates the process. It's hardly efficient but profitable.

 

[scheherazade_79]

I received one of the usual 'Congratulations! You have won!' spam messages for a lottery I hadn't entered.

The address was interesting:

From: Mr. Felix moor
Euro-Afro-American-Sweepstake Lottery
Headquarters:1a, Bexon Court Carlton Liverpool
shire Liverpool LP4 1SQ Essex
United Kingdom

For US residents who aren't aware of UK addresses, Liverpool is NOT a shire and it certainly isn't in Essex. It is as bad a mistake as suggesting that Chicago is in Florida.

All they want is my personal information including bank details and they'll send me my share of the 11 million dollars I have won. Please send to South Africa...

I don't think I will. Their South Africa sounds very much like Nigeria.

Og

This reminds me of an argument I once had with someone who was convinced the River Nile flowed through the small Welsh county where we both lived

 

[CharleyH]

I received one of the usual 'Congratulations! You have won!' spam messages for a lottery I hadn't entered.

The address was interesting:

From: Mr. Felix moor
Euro-Afro-American-Sweepstake Lottery
Headquarters:1a, Bexon Court Carlton Liverpool
shire Liverpool LP4 1SQ Essex
United Kingdom

For US residents who aren't aware of UK addresses, Liverpool is NOT a shire and it certainly isn't in Essex. It is as bad a mistake as suggesting that Chicago is in Florida.

All they want is my personal information including bank details and they'll send me my share of the 11 million dollars I have won. Please send to South Africa...

I don't think I will. Their South Africa sounds very much like Nigeria.

Og

Thanks Og. I normally delete any email that says I won anything. Of the online contests I have actually entered? Well - they have my phone number.

 

[CharleyH]

This reminds me of an argument I once had with someone who was convinced the River Nile flowed through the small Welsh county where we both lived

Just happened to catch this - LOL - it reminds me of my Aunt and Uncle when my cousin wanted to be a Vegetarian at 11. They convinced her that white meat on a chicken or turkey wasn't really meat because it had no blood cells. LOL That lasted a whole 2 years for my cousin. LOL - she wised up and HOW!