Just Another Scam Mail???
By mjmlagat
@mjmlagat (3170)
Philippines
November 26, 2008 9:09pm CST
I just received the following mail in my gmail inbox, is this just another scam mail? Please share if you know something about this:
[b]SUCCESS ALERT...(Congratulations!)
Dear Customer,
This E-mail is to inform you that your e-mail have emerged as
a winner of £500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand British
Pounds) in our 1Oth anniversary online giveaway draws.Your
Winning details are as follows: Computer Generated Profile
Numbers (CGPN):7-22-71-00-66-12, Ticket number:
00869575733664, Serial numbers:/BTD/8070447706/06, Lucky
numbers: 12-12-23-35-40-41(12).
Contact your processing agent (Mr. Francis Henson) who has
been assigned to handle your winning file and payment
processing with the contact below:
Mr. Francis Henson,
Email: 2008winners.online@gmail.com
Sincerely,
Mrs Elizabeta Squier[/b]
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18 responses
@Undertheoath (365)
• United States
27 Nov 08
By far this sounds like a phishing email trying to lure you to take the bait and submit your details. I suggest you report it for phishing, for if it was real there would be more contact than mere email correspondence.
-Regards,
Undertheoath
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@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
27 Nov 08
Oh I guess this is one of those phishing emails I received every now and then. I really don't think they can get anything from doing this as their style is doing everything in their power to convince you but since i got a lot of it already I usually ignore them always but they are still insistent on doing it.
@loxion (1553)
• India
27 Nov 08
What a scam, did you play or enter any online promotions? i guess not. Again how come this people don't know your name and only can identify you as "customer"?, i mean even if you did enter some online promotion or something as emerged as a winner..your name should appear there that even if the email can reach a wrong person then they would know that it is not theirs, now they just say "customer".
That's obvious that...that very same email is sent not only to you but many many people(what they call sending mass emails).
How come they don't include their phone numbers and physical address there? they know that they will be traced and get caught.
The money is too good to be true, i mean who can believe that he/she won that kind of money by just receiving an email like that, and again why is it that they need to be contacted by email only?. The next thing they will need your banking details, would you give them by email? i guess and hope not
PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THAT
@djonghs (560)
• Indonesia
27 Nov 08
I have received it a lot everyday, and I just delete it before I read it since I know that I never registered for something like that nor some system could track my email.
And if you read more further, you should wondering how come such a big institution that come out with such a big give using a free email account? If they could give you such cash, they should be able to afford to have they own mail system and they own email address.
They try to scam, but they could never ever lie about they email address and that are the prove of they lying. How come some one or some institution that have such money to shared could not afford their own mail system? do you believe it??
BR
@manzoor1984 (107)
• Pakistan
27 Nov 08
ah yeah thats a scam ...
i have like 15 emails like that in my inbox ...
its a way to collect information from unsuspecting people who need some easy money without any effort ...
two words ...
Identity Theft ...
so don't reply to it and mark it as scam in your mail account ...
@mssnow (9484)
• United States
27 Nov 08
Please dont reply it is a scam. They will suck you in. Tell you all you have to do to get your winnings is to send them a small fee. Then teh small fee will get larger and larger with each email. They will keep promising and not deliver. Trust me I know.
@cassandralynn (1084)
• United States
27 Nov 08
I receive so many emails like that to all of my email addresses it's not even funny! I wonder sometimes if these scammers realize that 98% of the internet world is aware of these scams now and they don't work anymore..LOL.. Oh and they are getting creative! I got a friend request from some user on my Yahoo 360 page and it was from a guy that said he was dying of cancer and he needed me to help him transfer money from his bank to some account blah blah and he would pay me a million dollars if I help him because his evil stepmother is trying to steal his family's money and it's his dying wish to secure the money away from his stepmother and that's where I came in.. It was really strange, but a scam... I can't tell you how many times I have won the British lottery also, probably 20 times so far..LOL
@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
27 Nov 08
LOL No offense, but I'm surprised you even need to ask if its a scam? Sure it is. There are thousands of those out there going around, as well as mail scams. For those of us living in the US we do have recourse if its mailed in the US. They can track them down and file charges for mail fraud. But unfortunately many of these scams have wised up and now mail them from other countries. The email ones I don't even read, too many of them are either trojen horses or have virus' embedded in them.
@gayathrigs (871)
• India
27 Nov 08
Obviously this is a scam mail, if not who will give us so much money without our knowledge without we knowing them or vice versa? we must never trust this kind of mails mainly because they might even contain virus also sometimes which might attack your personal details in some or the other ways we never knew. I have got this kind of mails many times but i have been reluctant to this kind of mails because i know very well that i was never a member of that particular site nor do i know anything about this so there is no chance for people to send me millions of dollars or pounds. all this is just trash, hence throw such mails in the trash.
@chiaeugene (2225)
• China
27 Nov 08
haha. i would get this everyday without fail telling me i won some email contest or National lottery which are scams and they want you to furnish your particulars. Once i even received an email claiming to be from Yahoo and threaten to close my email account if i dun provide them with my email details. The next kind of scams are those nigerian or from africa etc, where they would claimed to be big time generals, politicians, influential bankers etc and want to do business with you and you offer them some help and they will split a few million with you. so off these emails go to my rubbish bin and i hope no one would be fool by them
@suhasininair (22)
• India
27 Nov 08
Please don't waste time on reading this email at all. I usually gets this kind of mail every week. There is no doubt that this is scam. There are people still around that believe this as a genuine email and end up paying money. So dont believe in these kind of mails.