So, occasionally I get a funny spam email in my gmail account. This happens to be one of those emails:
Dear Sir / Madam,
It is our pleasure to inform you that your email address won on the 3rd
category $521,000.00 on the global lottery instituted by president Obama
Barak which took place in Houston Texas on the 4th of March, 2009. As
part of his economic reforms and unification into global family to bring
peace to our world and ensure good opportunities.To apply for your prize payment, you are required to contact Lottery
Commission via below email contact with your given file numbers
(001/TX7/OL0982).
Include your names, country and mobile telephone number:Lottery Commission,
1919 N Loop W, Houston, TX 77008,
Email; w_602@live.fr
Contact: T. Jordan.
Payment Auditor.Take note: to avoid any mistake, copy the above contact email, paste it in
your browser, write out your informations and send. Or Just click reply to
this email and write your informations and send.Congratulations once more.
Yours Faithfully,
Mrs. Wilse D Apetia -
Online Co-coordinator -
So, there really is some spammer out there who thinks this stuff works, but videos like this make me take pause and think again. Maybe some people really do buy into it.