aka "Lost in translation"-bait
Lost in Translation is a very fun page which uses BabelFish to bounce your entered text back and forth between a number of languges, making the end result almost impossible to understand... it's such a shame Agnus is so shaky in his english, isn't it ;) ?
The original message:
From <kentphilip@webmail.co.za>
Sun Mar 21 06:11:18 2004
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From: "kent philip" <kentphilip@webmail.co.za>
Subject: congrats!
To: kentphilip@webmail.co.za
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Status: R
MEGA LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT.
REF: MLI/5361-ILGI0509/45
BATCH: IPD/15/096/PTNL
RE: WINNING FINAL NOTIFICATION
Sir/Madam
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery
Winners International programs held on the 12th
of Febuary 2004. Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number 20511465897-6291 with serial number
472-971103 drew lucky numbers 8-66-97-22-71-64 which
consequently won in the 2nd category, you
have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of US$
1,000,000.00 (One Million United States
Dollars)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you
keep your winning information very
confidential till your claims has been processed and your
prize/money Remitted to you. This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
All participants were selected through a computer
ballot system drawn from over 200,000,000 company and
300,000,000 individual email addresses and
names from all over the world.
This promotional program takes place annually. We hope with
part of your winning you will take part in
our next year USD10 million international lottery.
To file for your claim, please contact our/your fiducial
agent
MR SPENCER WHITE of the,
MEGA AGENCY INTERNATIONAL
TEL:0031-621-613-464
FAX:0031-645-272-053
Email:megagency@outgun.com
Note that all winning must be claimed not later than 11th
of April 2004. After this date all
unclaimed,funds will be included in the next stake. Please
note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications please remember to quote your reference
number and batch numbers in all
correspondence. Furthermore,should there be any change of
address do inform our agent as soon as
possible.
Congratulations once more from our members of staff and
thank
you for being part of our promotional program.
Note: Anybody under the age of 18 is automatically
disqualified.
Sincerely yours,
Mr.kent philip
Lottery Coordinator.
REPLY TO megagency@outgun.com
Off course, Agnus is overjoyed!
Dear Getlteman. The very lucky person is very very, to feel the gained uniform which really I request, to write without a certain legend of the competition she requests requests to me whereas apanha of I my money of the load of moneies! Our greetings of the warm one
Agnus
A bit of garbled engrish isn't enought to throw these lads of their script - quickly they replied:
MEGA AGENCY INTERNATIONAL
WILBAUSTRAAT 104,6713AR
AMSTERDAM,HOLLAND.
TEL.0031-621-613-464
FAX 0031-645-272-053
"Hello,
We acknowledge the receipt of your email with request to file for
your
lottery-winning prize, we write to clarify and explain our mode
of service
that we render to our client(s) on lottery claim related issues:
-
Firstly, our ultimate concern is to ensure that winners get their
winning
prize. We shall send you an email attachment of the payment
scheme(B6) which
must be filled completely,and emailed back to us as an
attachment/via fax back
to us.
Secondly, the Payment Scheme Form (B6) which has to be filled and
returned via
email attachment or fax with a compulsory “Processing
fee” of seven hundred
euros (700.00 Euros) only. As that is what we charge for our
services to
handling and filing for your winning prize.
The Payment Scheme Form allows you to indicate the mode of
payment you
preferred, and note that our aim is to serve you better and
ascertain
the authenticity of a lottery winner. The processing of your
claim will be
completed within four (4) working days and subsequently you will
receive the
total sum of one million United States Dollars($1,000,000.00).
Hence you are advised to also send your personal details to us
sending
Your Telephone and Fax numbers (Pls. Indicate your country code +
area code)for
us to commence processing/filing of your winning prize.
you are advise to pay the processing fees/adminstrative fees
through the
financial controller name via western union money transfer.Below
are the
informations you requires:
NAME:MR. EBO BEN
DESTINATION:AMSTERDAM,THE NETHERLANDS
Endeavour to send information of payment to the office,by calling
the direct
line 0031-621-613-464 or email to[megagencg@outgun.com]to give us
the transfer
control number of your processing fees and your funds will be
remitted and
transfer to you immediately,because of the hard insurance policy
that came with
the funds,makes your funds not deductable,we await your prompt
respond.CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE.
Best Regards,
By Management Of Mega Agency International.
Agnus is baffled - he don't know quite where they are heading, so he ask for more clarifications, as well as asking more about the lottery...
They are the greetings, this form, that the speeches? I won, that I transmit many immediately moneies right, nobody delays. Alive Secundària in the connection of européia, much that I do not have each possible necessity to the taxes here that they are. In it could not more find the information in his lotterie, when I observed in the official admission. Why? Our greetings of the warm one
Agnus