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December 31, 2006
Boise Homes
Well, this is a little turn up for the books. I'd always assumed that the stereotypes about Idaho were true (for such cliches are indeed based upon more than a soupcon of truth, that's how they come about in the first place). That is that it was one large potato field with a few militiamen hiding in it.
Apparently this isn't so and there's something of a rush into the State, most especially into Boise to take advantage of the fine lifestyle to be had in the area.
Which brings us to this very fine site talking about Boise homes, one that I'm really rather impressed with. I think it's laid out just as such a real estate site ought to be. Clear, quick to load, informative, what else could you need? They've got a blog incorporated which looks at certain specific subjects, for example this post on two houses available for $200 k (which makes me think that one of the advantages of Boise is the affordability of the housing). Their housing search engine offers all of the right filters, and from the main page you can sort by price, size or location.
All in all I think it's an excellent site and if you're in the market for Boise homes I strongly recommend that you check it out.
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euro millions weekly promotional program
Be aware, this is a fake lottery. There is a real euro millions lottery but this email has nothing to do with it. You will be asked to send money to process or release your prize.
Any money that you send will simply be kept by the criminals who sent this email and no prize will ever be sent to you.
Ignore it, it's a scam, a fake, a fraud.
Date: 29/12/2006
This is a formal notification of the just concluded final draws of the euro millions weekly promotional program held on the 27th of December 2006.
The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 300,000 email addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web. No tickets were sold.
After this automated computer ballot, your email address emerged as one of the five winners in category "B" with the followings: Ref Number: EUM DN 0508-9T6 Batch Number: EUM QY-3LJ4 Ticket Number: 3510-EM 47 Serial Number: NPU-34 Lucky Number: 09 23 35 37 42 (03-07) Bear in mind that prizes will strictly be remitted to winners that officially file in for their claim within the given time frame.
To begin your claim, you are advised to immediately contact our accredited claim agent with the details below. Furnish the claim agent with your full name, direct telephone/fax numbers and very important, your winning details.
Mr. John Adams
Santalucia Seguros Espana ,
Telephone: +34 663 649 454(GMT +1 - 09:00 - 18:00 Hours)
Email:johnadams45@yahoo.es .
Your prize award has been insured with your email address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirement of the gaming board authority which includes your statutory obligations. All winnings must be claimed within 21 working days. Any unclaimed prize will be returned to the treasury of Euro Lottery Services.
You are advised to keep your winning details strictly to yourself and not share it with any individual or firm. NOTE: You are to file in for the claim of 450.000, 00 Euro (Four Hundred Fifty Thousand Euros Only).
Thank you for being part of our program and on behalf of all our staff, congratulations.
Juliana Perez
Program Coordinator
NB: To verify your lucky numbers visit: <http://www.euro-millions.com/results.htm>
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DVR Recorders
Digital Video recorders are one of the new technologies I've not really caught up with. Not all that much of a surprise I guess as the video recorder itself passed me by as have the subsequent DVD players and so on. However, this might be something I should regret, rather than celebrate. For example, there's the TiVo (that's the link to the Philips models), which allows you to not only record your favourite programs, but do it either while watching something else or even be recording the end of a program while you're watching the beginning. You can also skip the ads which is nice. Then it's also true that DirecTV supplies TiVo equipment to go along with its satellite service. Apparently it's also possible to do all of this remotely as well, using either the internet or perhaps even a cell phone as the remote.
Perhaps the biggest upcoming use is going to be in DVR Surveillance. Hhhm. Perhaps this really is a technology I should be paying more attention to?
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EL GORDO LA PRIMITIVA INTERNATIONAL
Be careful with this one. There really is a lottery called El Gordo. It's the biggest lottery in Spain each year and it takes place around New Year.
However, this email is nothing to do with it, it is simply criminals using the name of the real lottery.
You will be asked to pay money in advance to receive your prize. Any money you send will simply be kept by the criminals and no prize will ever be sent to you.
Ignore it, it's a scam, a fake, a fraud.
EL GORDO LA PRIMITIVA INTERNATIONAL
2114 Kingsway Ave., Osborne,
Western Australia, 7365.
Head office: 28808 MADRID - ESPAÑA.
Our Ref: SEGL/322/CRS/06
Date: 29th december 2006
Dear Winner,
SUBJECT: RESULT FOR 3RD CATEGORY WINNER
we are pleased to inform you of the result of the El gordo La
Primitiva International Free Email Lottery Games programs held on the
29th of DECEMBER 2006, whereby your email address fortunately drew the
Lucky Star Nr: 25, 28,29, 45,54 attached to Ticket Nr: 65479, Serial
Nr:, Reference Nr: SEGL/322/CRS/06 and Batch Nr: 21480/ESP, which
consequently won in the 3rd category Bonanza 2006 Free Email Lottery.
Therefore, You have been approved to receive a cash prize of
€883,779.49 (Eight Hundred and Eighty Three Thousand, Seven Hundred and
Seventy-Nine Euros, Forty Nine Cents only). Be advised that due to
incessant mix up in cash prize transfer to previous winners, we advise
that you Keep your winning information confidential until your claim(s)
is been processed and your funds has been transferred to you.
Note that this security measure is important; its protocol is meant to
avoid double claims, transfer and unwarranted abuse of this program by
other participants.
METHOD OF SELECTING WINNERS:
Participants were
selected anonymously through a private ballot system (computer ballot)
from over 35,000 Companies and 70,000 individual e-mail addresses all
over the world. At the final draw, your e-mail address emerged as the
winner of our last jackpot. Furthermore, be informed that this
promotional program takes place annually, and it is promoted and
sponsored by Orient Software Corporation (Orient Networks). It is met
to reward some individuals and corporations who have devote their time
and resources surfing the World Wide Web (www) with their email
addresses. IMPORTANTANT NOTICE: Remember, all winning must be claimed
not later than 30 working days from today; after the expiration of this
time frame, if your fund is unclaimed, it will be refunded to us and
included in our next draws. We hope you will use part of your cash
prize to participate in our next $18million draws in June 2007.
Lastly, in order to avoid unnecessary delays/complications with the
transfer of your funds to you, please always remember to quote your
reference number in all correspondence with our agent in madrid
Español). Furthermore, should there be any change of your present
address, please notify us immediately so to make the appropriate
adjustment.
Congratulations from the management and staffs of Elgordo
La Primitiva International Free Email Lottery Programm. Endeavour to
contact our angent for your payment advice.
Contact details
Contact person: Mr.rio -Santos.
International Remittance Department
TEL: +3- 627-329-804
E-mail: riosantos1@aim.com
Congratulations.
Yours in services,
RIO SANTOS
(Lottery Coordinator)
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December 30, 2006
That Time Of Year Again
Yes, for those of us up here in the Northern Hemisphere it's that time of year again. We're all locked inside shivering against the winter cold. Or, more likely now, we're all warm and toasty, locked away from the winter cold. However, this in itself has its problems, for we all get dry skins and sore throats and this is caused by hte dryness of the air. The solution to which is Holmes warm mist and cool mist humidifiers.
If this is indeed one of the problems you have it you'll find more information about possible solutions at Humidifier Information.com. For example, this page, where different types of humidifier are compared.
It's well worth checking out to get rid of those perennial winter problems, dry skins and sore throats so why not visit Humidifier Information.com?
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BMW Automobile International Awareness Promotion
No, this isn't a real lottery and no, you haven't won a car and some money.
What will happen is that you will be asked to send them money in advance, in order to receive your prize. Any money you send will just be kept by the criminals. No car and no money will ever be sent to you.
Ignore it, it's a fake, a scam, a fraud.
3271, PE , Den Haag
The Netherlands.

Mr. John Bakker.
BMW Claims Department
EMAIL:bmwclaimcentrenl@aol.com
PHONE NUMBER: +31 620 630 979
FAX NUMBER: +31 847 106 545
VERIFICATION FORM:
2.) AGE:
4.) ADDRESS:
5.) ZIP/POSTAL CODE:
6.) STATE/PROVINCE:
7.) COUNTRY:
8.) PHONE:
10.) COMPANY:
11.) EMAIL ADDRESS:
Engr. Peter M. Reed DIRECTOR OF PROMOTIONS, INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS PROMOTIONS, BMW AUTOMOBILE. DEN HAAG, THE NETHERLANDS .
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Promotion Coupons
With all of the major retailers now working online, the big question becomes how do we get a deal from them? We know how to do it with the bricks and mortar stores, we simply look in the paper for the coupons section and get our money off that way.
What many don't know is that the online stores often provide promotion codes, sort of an electronic coupon. Just as an example, here is Coupon Chief's list of Staples Coupons for today. There's up to $200 off HP printers, although an offer like that will almost certainly be gone tomorrow. It's worth checking the site daily for deals, and if you're about to buy something online, make sure you check the site to see if you can get money off something you've already decided to buy!
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Netherlands Lottery International Nl Company
This is not a real lottery, sorry, but it isn't. This is a fake, a scam, a fraud.
You will be asked to pay money to these people in order to receive your prize. Any money that you send will simply be kept by the criminals. No prize will ever be sent to you.
Ignore it.
FROM: GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED LOTTERY PROMOTERS.
WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY \"A\" WINNER
Dear Lucky Winner,
RE: LOTTO INTERNATIONAL NL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of Lotto nternational Netherlands programs. The online cyber lotto draws was conducted from an exclusive list of 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold. After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of two winners in the category \"A\" with the following:
Ref Number: PC 607 ES 208
Batch Number: 26371545-LNI/2006
Ticket Number: PCP 002 871
You as well as the other winner are therefore to receive a cash prize of EUR 1,500,000.00. (ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND EURO ONLY) each from the total payout. Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report. To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent for category \"A\" winners with the information below:
=========================================================================
Mr. Donald Van Oliver
Department Director,
Netherlands Lottery International Nl Company
[Lotto International Netherlands], 107 Vanderloop
1902AB ,Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail: donaldoliver5@aol.com
phone:+31 619 705 298
Fax: +31 847 480 555
=========================================================================
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed not later than 20 days. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake. Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program. Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Agatha DeBoer,
Games/Lottery Coordinator.
Lotto International Netherlands
Lotto
International Netherlands: This email may contain information which is
confidential and/or privileged. The information is intended solely for
the use of the individual or entity named above. If you are not the
intended recipient,be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution
or use of the contents is prohibited.If you have received this
electronic transmission in error,please notify the sender by telephone
or return email and delete the
material from your computer.
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December 29, 2006
Credit Cards
The surge of spending at Christmas means that January is the time of year when everyone is looking for new credit cards. Some are doing it to try and get more credit itself, which is not really quite the way you might want to use the system. Others are more sensible and try to look for 0% balance transfers. In this manner you can stretch out your repayments without having to pay the punitive rates of interest: by taking advantage of the introductory offers made by many issuers.
But given that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of UK credit card issuers, all aiming at specific sectors of the market, offering different deals here and there, you want somewhere where you can compare credit cards. Why not click through to a site that helps you do exactly that?
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END OF THE YEAR PROMOTION
Just another name for the same old lottery scam. What these criminals do is take the name of a lottery that really does exist and then pretend that there is an email version of it.
Then they tell you that you have won that email version: only, they tell hundreds of thousands of people that they have won. They then tell you that you must pay them money in advance to release your prize. The criminals then keep any money that is sent and no one ever receives a prize.
Ignore it, it's a scam, a fake, a fraud.
END OF THE YEAR PROMOTION
Ticket Number:NM/BC921245/KY14
POSTCODE LOTTO NL.
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE
AWARD DEPARTMENT.
Koningen Julianaplein 21, 2391 BD
Den Haag,The Netherlands
RESULTS FOR CATEGORY "B" DRAWS
Dear Winner,
Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice, the results of the Second Category
draws
of THE POSTCODE LOTTO NL.PROMO INTL., programs held on the 28th
December,2006. We are happy to inform you that you have emerged as a
winner under the 2nd Category, in our promotional draws. The results
of the draws have been officially announced .Participants were selected
through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses
of individuals and companies from Africa, America, Asia,Australia,
Europe, Middle East, and Oceania as part of our International awareness
Promotions Program.
Your e-mail address, attached to ticket
Number:NM/BC921245/KY14,with Prize Number:NM/207161/WOP and lucky
number W-91237-H67/B4, consequently won in the 2nd Category. You have
therefore been awarded a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000 (One Million
Euros), which is the winning payout for Category B winners.
This is
from a total cash prize of 10,000,000.00 (Ten Million Euros) shared
among the first Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.
In your
best interest and to avoid mix up of numbers and names of any kind, we
request that you keep the entire details of your award strictly from
public notice until the process of transferring your claims has been
completed, and your funds remitted to your account.This is part of our
security protocol to avoid double claims and unscrupulous acts by
Participants/nonparticipants of this program. Please contact our paying
bank immediately for due processing and remittance of your prize money
to a designated account of your choice:
NOTE: For easy reference and
identification, find below your Ticket and Prize numbers. Remember to
quote these numbers in your correspondence with your paying bank.Also
give them the following informations
Name
Age
Sex
Address
Telephone Number
Ticket Number:NM/BC921245/KY14
Prize Number:NM/207161/WOP.
Notification Date
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
To begin your claims, kindly contact the paying bank address with your information:
***********************************************
Contact Person: Mr.Edward Sager
Email: wagrapremitbank@gawab.com
Tel: 00 31 644 965 097
***********************************************
NOTE: All claims are nullified after 10 working days from today if unclaimed.
Congratulations once again from all our staffs, and thanking you for being part of our promotions program.
Yours Sincerely,
Joan Van Henk(Lottery Coordinator).
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