My Lottery Win

cozumel · Sep 7, 2008, 04:07 PM

So about a month agao I changed from buying tickets in the store to paying by direct debit transfer from my account for the same numbers.

Anyhow, about half an hour I checked my emails and I received this notification:

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We have some exciting news about your National Lottery Subscription. Please click Sign In | The National Lottery and enter your username and password to view the details of your Subscription online now.

Kind regards,

National Lottery Subscriptions Team

Now I'm almost having a coronary and wondering exactly what or how much this 'exciting news' will be. So I take the link, log in to my account and check my subscription. This what it says:

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[COLOR=#ff0000]Lotto - 6 Sep 2008 [/COLOR]
My Subscriptions | The National Lottery
xxxxxxxxxx
Your prize of £10.00 has been paid to your bank/building society account.

10 stinking £s? Is that meant to be exciting? Do they want poeple to have a heart attack for £10?

So now I am £10 richer

**Mousey** · Sep 7, 2008, 04:15 PM

haha a tenner would help me out a lot tbh, never hurts to have lotsa train fare lying around

**MIG-31** · Sep 7, 2008, 04:15 PM

I wonder if the same response would be for matching the first digit for Dream Numer... A whopping £2 from last nights draw..

Asmoday · Sep 8, 2008, 01:38 AM

Falstaff · Sep 8, 2008, 01:43 AM

still waiting for some feedback on that lottery ticket I won in Nigeria..
now where was I?

***Veridian3*** · Sep 8, 2008, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by cozumel

So I take the link, log in to my account

Never EVER do that again!

Seriously, always go to the site yourself through a favourite etc, clicking links in emails and logging in is never a good idea. No matter how legit the email looks.

Oh, and congrats

Callandor · Sep 8, 2008, 01:47 AM

You should call them up and find out if they made a mistake and were actually supposed to give you £100,000 or something, you never know, they might have made a gross miscalculation somewhere.

cozumel · Sep 8, 2008, 02:15 AM

Nigerian lottery eh? I just wish I had like 10k for every phish I'd received for that old one. I'd be a multi-millionaire many times over.

I only got three numbers (the first 3 out of the hat). I just can't see the point of emailing someone with something supposedly exciting when it's just £10. It should quite simple say 'you have won £10 and it has been transferred into your account. End of...
Now, anything over say £500 is 'exciting' and £500 (aboout $1,000) is where the excitement level starts for me.

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Originally Posted by Veridian3

Never EVER do that again!

Seriously, always go to the site yourself through a favourite etc, clicking links in emails and logging in is never a good idea. No matter how legit the email looks.

Oh, and congrats

I never do (except this time lol). But I already saved the subscription address to my address book and images load automatically so I know it has come from the correct source.

Robert McClelland · Sep 9, 2008, 12:08 AM

Those are fake I get over seas lottery all the time lol thats just good way spam your email others.

mbeeston · Sep 9, 2008, 10:58 AM

free gum for everyone?

Sep 7, 2008, 04:15 PM	#2
Mousey Synth's Long Lost Bro Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Web Design Hell Posts: 7,156 Rep Power: 243 System Specs	haha a tenner would help me out a lot tbh, never hurts to have lotsa train fare lying around __________________

Sep 7, 2008, 04:15 PM	#3
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 55,722 Rep Power: 441 System Specs	I wonder if the same response would be for matching the first digit for Dream Numer... A whopping £2 from last nights draw.. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

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Callandor Forged on Dragonmount Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 6,869 Rep Power: 251 System Specs	You should call them up and find out if they made a mistake and were actually supposed to give you £100,000 or something, you never know, they might have made a gross miscalculation somewhere. __________________

Sep 9, 2008, 12:08 AM	#9
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Somewhere in Wood County Ohio Same Town :) Posts: 10,231 Rep Power: 193 System Specs	Those are fake I get over seas lottery all the time lol thats just good way spam your email others. __________________ "XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun" http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2242746

Sep 9, 2008, 10:58 AM	#10
mbeeston HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: alberta, canada (thats north of the usa people) Posts: 1,037 Rep Power: 66 System Specs	free gum for everyone? __________________ R.I.P Roadee - you will be missed T_T peace,love, and war... 3 things people look for... "if your going off the deep end, show off, do a cannon ball!" - me