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Not quite a Newb Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 39

This arrived in my gmail account. It's just a bit weird

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From: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: LOTTOPLUS: PLAY AND WIN ( IT IS ABSOLUTELY FREE )
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:11:32 +0000
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Can anybody tell me the correct answers to the 5 questions ? Shocked

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[email protected] to lottoplus2day

LOTTOPLUS THE DAILY FREE LOTTO GAME
LOTTOPLUS is the FREE Lotto game where you respond to five questions,
pick seven numbers from 0 to 50, and you could WIN $250,000,
that's two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, paid in 25 annual installments of ten thousand dollars each.
LOTTOPLUS tickets are absolutely free. We only ask that you respond to a question with each ticket you enter.
You are a LOTTOPLUS winner if you answer the five questions correctly and four of the seven numbers from 0 to 50 that you pick is the winning numbers.
Your answer to the questions has 50% influence on your chances of winning.
ALL QUESTIONS ARE MANDATORY.
QUESTIONS:
(Choose either letter "A", "B", "C", or "D" )

(1) Which Do You think is the most important cause of Terrorism?

(A) Religious fanaticism

(B) Poverty.

(C) Political oppression.

(2) What are Your Views Concerning the Medical Use of Marijuana?

(A) No one should be allowed to use marijuana under any circumstances.

(B) Only those terminally ill and certified with less than six months to live should be allowed to use marijuana.

(C) Those with medical conditions that their doctor indicates could benefit should be allowed to use marijuana
.......
(D) Any adult should be allowed to use marijuana.

(3) If it turns out that Imclone's monoclonal antibody ERBITUX is a cure for cancer,
should Samuel Waksal, the company's founder and former chairman still be kept in prison for insider trading?

(A) Yes he should stay in prison anyway.

(B) No if the monoclonal antibody approach that he has been working on since 1984 does cure cancer he should be released from prison.

(C) No opinion

(4) What are your views regarding Gmail a free, webmail service from Google that includes 1,000 megabytes (1 gigabyte) of storage
but uses contextually targeted advertising which scans e-mail content to present users with relevant Gmail advertisements?

(A) I agree with California State Sen. Liz Figueroa who is working on legislation to ban the scanning of personal e-mail for advertising purposes.

(B) I think individuals should be free to choose to use such a service if they are informed of the contextual advertising aspect.

(C) I will sign-up for Gmail when it is available since the free 1 gigabyte of storage outweighs any concern I might have over Google scanning
the content of my e-mail to provide contextually targeted advertising.
No Opinion

(5) Which type of terrorists are more likely to cause the next deadly attack in the
USA: Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorists or Christian Fundamentalist Terrorists?

(A) Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorists like Osama Bin Laden.

(B) Christian Fundamentalist Terrorists like Eric Rudolf or Timothy McVie.

(C) Both Islamic and Christian Terrorsists are equally likely to attack next

CHOOSE ANY SEVEN NUMBERS FROM 0 TO 50
(NOTE: Numbers should be seperated with comma)

Send answers to [email protected]
(Only lucky winners will be contacted)

You stand a chance of winning!

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:03 pm

Something tells me you could answer "D" or just about anything else and still find yourself a winner... Cool

Yeah, it's a scam. Read this thread for an ongoing saga of fun with the lotto lads.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 39

Damn ! I just fired off this email to them before i saw your post. Crying or Very sad

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Could I just ask:

When and where does the lotto draw take place ?

How are the numbers chosen ?

You say in your mail "You are a LOTTOPLUS winner if you answer the five questions correctly"

Are there correct answers to these questions ? or wouldn't they more likely to be just considered personal opinion, with no empirical or correct answers ?

Wouldn't this in effect mean that, even were a player to pick the correct numbers, it gives you licence to claim that they had failed to answer the questions correctly ?

Is there somewhere online that the correct answers will be revealed after the draw has taken place ?

Regards

Enoch

Doubt I'll be hearing back from them. I think it's time to set up a new account and bait them from there.

btw Thanks for the link Smile

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:44 pm

I wouldn't be too surprised if that reply made you a winner....but then I'm just cynical. Very Happy

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 11

I detect a little NLP going on here.
I don't know if anyone noticed, question 2 has been separated from the group of questions by an additional space and option D has been physically separated with some"...."s

Coincidence? or I could be just imagining things Smile