Good News--I've Won!

Got an e-mail today. Boy was I excited. The email said I was the winner of the UK (United Kingdom) National Lottery. It says that I've won GBP £550,000. WOW!!! That's about $1,079,703.70, give or take a few cents. This I've got to check out.

Yeah, it says my email has won. I guess I'm set for Easy Street now. The email says I have to contact a Mr. David Owen for claims. All right. I'm counting the money and think how to spend it about now. WAIT A MINUTE!! Why does the Claims Director for the UK National Lottery have a Yahoo email address? This bears further inspection. The email itself came from an email address with charter.net in it. It appears that charter.net is the email for customers of Charter Communications and Charter Communications is located in St. Louis, MO.

I suppose the UK National Lottery has moved to St. Louis instead of London, England now. After all, the dollar has dropped quite a bit. It has to be cheaper to operate in the US now. The director is even using a Yahoo address instead of a government email address. I suppose this cuts down on expenses for the lottery and they can sink more money into the prizes. That means more prize money for me.

Nah, I didn't think so either.

© 2008 Barry T Horst


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