Do you believe in Miracles?

Do you believe in Miracles?


Wow…I just can’t believe how lucky I’ve been this month. I mean it’s not my birthday or anything like that, but I have won over R56, 000,000-00 in lotteries on the internet. What a load of tempting twaddle. And you know what? I couldn’t resist the one from Microsoft Lotteries where they informed me that I had won the second prize worth 500,000.00 pounds British Sterling, so I
completed the application form with my name, occupation and address, and waited impatiently for my cheque to arrive. And sure enough an email arrived within minutes advising me to contact Scarlet Couriers who would deliver my cheque to the front door once I’d paid a small clearance fee.

“Ah ha,” I said to myself out loud. “You spam-scamming bastards. You’re not going to catch me…that is for sure.” And with that said I deleted all correspondence from Jeffrey James: head of the Microsoft lottery board. And that would be that.

Or so I thought, because the next day I got a phone call from London and sure enough it was Jeffrey asking to speak to Guy Preston. Well I know my name is not Guy so I politely corrected him.
“Oh yes of course…Grant. How silly of me. Just phoning to ask why you have not collected your winnings?
Well, what could I say? That I didn’t need the money at the moment… or maybe that I needed time to consider what charity I was going to give it to. I was absolutely lost for words.
“It is my job to ensure that this money doesn’t fall into the wrong hands,” he continued. “And I don’t want you being scammed out of your legitimate winnings. This is after all a lot of money.”
“Yes.” I agreed. “An absolute fortune.”







“So can I presume you will be contacting the courier straight away to have your money delivered?”
“Yes. Of course,” I mumbled, “I will do it straight away.”
“Good…then from all of us here at Microsoft we would like to congratulate you on your winnings, and wish you all the best in the future.”
“Goodbye, and thank you very much,” I answered.
“Goodbye,” he replied.

Nobody would go to these lengths just to scam someone, I thought to myself. What if this is for real? What if God was not asleep, and had heard my prayers asking for a small fortune if he had anything to spare.
My conscience, in the form of my ‘better half’ then entered the room, and asked me why I was smiling so much.
“You haven’t been surfing the porn sites again have you?” she asked.
“No ways,” I was too quick to reply. “I think I’ve just won the Microsoft Lottery worth 500,000 British pounds sterling. That’s about R2, 000,000.00 I think.”
“At 13.9065 that would give you a total of R6, 953,000.26, and I don’t think anybody is going to give away that amount of money without you even entering a competition.”
My bubble went pop. She was right. What was I thinking?
“Just type ‘Microsoft lottery’ into your Google search and let’s see what we get?”
And sure enough…a little common sense goes a long long way… Microsoft Lottery Scam. Microsoft Lottery a Hoax. And so it went on and on.
At least I knew I wasn’t the only one who believed in miracles.