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And this is why you keep getting notifications that you've just won the Canadian lottery

By adamg on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 9:51am

Because enough people actually respond to make sending them out worthwhile. Cambridge Police report:

On 10/6/08 at 11:16 AM, a Rindge Ave. resident reported that his wife was notified by mail that she'd won the Canadian lottery on 9/5/08. To receive the funds she needed to prepay the taxes. A check was included to cover the costs. The husband dispatched a check via Western Union to various individuals, before discovering that the enclosed check was fraudulent.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 10:12am.

There's a sucker going on line every minute!

Did anybody else see the "700 million dollars" bailout written up as a "Nigerian" e-mail scam letter? Too funny.

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By MadMax on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 11:16am.

The CBC would be more than happy if us Americans had something to say about these incidents. Feel free to blog ...

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/10/07/telema...

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By Brett on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 12:37pm.

Home to more meth/coke addicts, criminals, and scam artists than anywhere else in the continent...

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By adamg on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 12:52pm.

Stats or it didn't happen.

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By Brett on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 1:07pm.

I was joking in hyperbole, but...vancouver is literally a city full of drug addicts. Where the only purpose in leaving the city for a good chunk of the population...is to steal/rob from nearby communities where there is actually a middle and upper class. Like Seattle.

Montreal and Toronto meanwhile, are doing their best in car thefts; they're targeting US cars heavily, and the Canadian police are pretty much sitting around with their thumbs up their asses saying "tough louk, ey?" Lots of stories about cars getting plopped into shipping containers and sent abroad, but gosh-golly-gee if the cops (and Canadian customs) can't figure it how to stop multi-ton objects from escaping through their ports.

http://www.google.com/search?q=montreal+car+theft

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