La vida es una tómbola.

Queridos amigos, aquí me tenéis completamente confundido, pues no sé si soy o no propietario de 600.000 dólares. Y ésta –estaréis conmigo, espero- no es una confusión menor.

Resulta que ayer por la noche, al llegar a casa después de disfrutar de “Naturaleza muerta” del chino Jia Zhang Ke, pasé, como de costumbre, a realizar mi despedida diaria de la realidad virtual antes de refugiarme en la realidad onírica. Y fue entonces cuando me encontré con un mail que me asegura que soy millonario. Es el siguiente:

YAHOO INTERNETLOTTERY

CONGRATULATIONS!

Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the new year 2007.

All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada. Australia.United State. Asia. Europe. Middle East. Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS ( $600.000 .00)

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies and the WORLD BANK as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Spanish representative office in Madrid Spain as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ( $600.000.00) will be released to you from this regional branch office in Madrid.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers.

Batch number:.............................XXXXX

Reference number:.......................XXXXX

lucky numbers................... XXXXXXXX,

Perdonadme si os oculto los datos exactos, pero no quiero que uno de vosotros reclame esta millonada en mi nombre y me deje a dos velas.

El mail seguía de esta manera:

NOTE THIS:

YOU ARE NOW BEING ADVISED TO CALL THE TELEPHONE NUMBER BELOW TO TRACK YOUR PAYMENT ON LINE WORLD BANK TELEPHONE BANKING SYSTEM THE WORLD BANK BANKERS BANK FUND CONFIRMATION UNIT IN SWITZERLAND

THE WORLD BANK FUND CONFIRMATION UNIT

TEL: 0041 -445801XXX ext. 4 / FAX: 0041-43-430-XX-XX

LOTTERY PRIZE AWARD DEPOSIT ACCOUNT TRACKING NUMBER IS: XXXX #

Yahoo!'s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

As part of our security protocol you are to quote this security code to your claim agent . This to prevent scam YLAW/AUG/XXXX

ZURICK SEGUROS ESPAÑA S.A

Francisco Gervas, 10 28020 Madrid Spain

Contact Person: Mr. Morris Moore

Tel: +34-666-268-XXX

Fax: +34-912-919-XXX

Telephone lines are open between the hours of 8:00am-19:30pm.Monday -Saturday ...Ext...001

You are to send the completed verification form below to the Agent in the Madrid Spain whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!

1. FULL NAME

2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

3. PRESENT ADDRESS.

4. DATE OF BIRTH

5. OCCUPATION

6. TELEPHONE NUMBER

6. FAX NUMBER

7. MARITAL STATUS

8.SECURITY CODE

9. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-selected winner or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Chris Carlos Mr. Morris Moore

(Co-coordinator) (Claim Agent)

No os negaré que hay por aquí algún dato que me mosquea ese extraño nombre de “ZURICK SEGUROS”, por ejemplo. ¡Pero me apetece tanto ser millonario…! El caso es que antes de lanzar las campanas al vuelo he decidido poner este mail en vuestro conocimiento por si alguien sabe de alguien que haya tenido la suerte que tengo yo y, de paso, conocer vuestra opinión al respecto.