My Lucky Week

Occams Barber said:

Ever have one of those weeks when everything seems to go right?

It started last Wednesday when I got an email from someone called Harry Vanderbilt headed “Funds Recovery for Cheated Victims”. Apparently, Harry is a “highly placed official with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)”. It appears some corrupt officials have been withholding a payment of $1,100,000 due to me for reasons I’m not entirely clear about. Harry has generously taken it upon himself to sort this out. All he needs are a few personal details so he can transfer the moola to my account.

It gets better.

A couple of days later another email arrived. This time it was from a Steve Will of the ‘ATM CARD PAYMENT CENTER in Europe, America, Africa and Asia Pacific’. Steve kindly informed me that I’m owed $2,000,000 as a result of some sort of contractual scam. Now, I don’t remember losing $2,000,000 but, to be honest, these days I frequently lose my car keys so anything is possible. Anyway, like my friend Harry, Steve is on the case and determined to get my money back. He just needs a few personal details.


But wait, there’s more.

Today I got the icing on the cake. Another email. This time it’s from Mrs Natta Miller, Promotions Director of the;

BMW LOTTERY DEPARTMENT
5070 WILSHIRE BLVD
LOS ANGELES. CA 90036

Mrs Miller tells me that I “have been selected for a prize of a Brand New 2018 Model BMW 8 Series Car and a Check of $3,500,000 USD from the international balloting programs held on the 1st section of the 2019 annual award promo in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”.

I was a little suspicious of this one but on reading further I was, thankfully, reassured. According to the email “the BMW Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also Licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR)”. With this assurance I’m in the process of sending off my personal details as requested.

So there you have it. In the space of one week I’ve scored a new Beamer plus $6,600,000. I’ve sent off my personal details to everyone and I’m now waiting patiently for the car to arrive and for the moneys to be deposited in my account.

It just doesn’t get better than this.

OB

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Occams Barber said:

Wow! Those tax people can be vicious.

Lucky you happened to have $20,000 worth of iTunes cards lying around.
OB

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Occams Barber said:

Wow! Those tax people can be vicious.

Lucky you happened to have $20,000 worth of iTunes cards lying around.
OB

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zephcom said:

Yeah, probably not even Walmart has that many in stock........

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Tanj said:

Luckily, once the ATO realized I was actually going to send them $20000 in iTunes gift cards, they helpfully showed me how to order them online and just send through to the ATO the barcodes so they could be accessed immediately.

On a more serious note and for the record, I'm not making this up.
Don't get played by iTunes scammers

26 people unfortunately paid $174,830 to fraudsters

The scammers don’t need the actual physical card. They just need the gift card number, which they get victims to read over the phone.

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Occams Barber said:

Most of this telephone scam stuff (and there's a lot of it) originates from outside of the country. There are call centres and robocall setups in a number of nearby south-east Asian countries devoted to targeting Australian landline numbers. I got four scam calls yesterday - one about my 'failing' telephone service, two about my 'about-to-be-disconnected internet' and one selling fake solar panels. I got another 'you-have-an-internet-problem' robocall earlier this morning.

Since writing the OP 24 hours ago I've received two more emails promising money and asking for 'personal details'.

The government and a number of larger companies have dedicated facilities for reporting and publicising scams.
OB

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