what scam is these ? Does any of you beleive in such a message?
Finally this email address has brought you an unexpected luck
CONTACT Sir John Greening VIA EMAIL:pgaclaimsagency@hotmail.co.uk FOR YOUR
500,000 GBP and a peugeot 407 car(1)NAMES(2)ADDRESS(3)NATIONALITY
I hereby use this medium to acknowledge the receipt of your claims requirement regarding the winning notification mail you received, informing you of the prize you have won courtesy Peugeot Automobiles United Kingdom, after the verification process was conducted I wish to inform you that the Administrative department and promotions department has just approved your payment of the tune of 500,000.00 GBP. (Five Hundred Thousand United kingdom Pounds Sterling) a certified hard copy of the cheque of the said sum has been written in your name, Your certificate of winnings and your form b1 (otherwise known as the clearance certificate) and along side the keys and the documents of shipment of your brand new Peugeot car has been compiled in as a consignment and sent to our official security Courier company in your favor.
The security company will be responsible for the remittance of the entire winnings, and your Lottery Winnings documents which is of high importance to you, so I expect you to show great appreciation to Peugeot Automobiles as a great firm haven been in existence for years and has single handedly made this promotion possible in other to promote the use of Peugeot cars in every corner of the world through the means of the internet as a global source of reaching people world wide. incase you still have doubts arising from the angle of how you got selected, note that the selection process was carried out through an electronic email ballot system our aim was to select winners through the internet which will be a much more easier way to select winners all around the universe due to the fact that only you alone have access to your email so have no fear , for you have emerged a winner as far as you are the original proprietor to the email account which you have received the winning notification letter as distributed by Mr. Dominic Gerald the lottery manger of this great promotion .
In furtherance, to begin the final step of the claims process you are advised to contact the security firm whose details are furnished below and they shall be responsible for onward delivery of your winnings to you and you shall be expected to pay some fees along the line by the security firm for the delivery of your cheque and documents this fees will not be more than nomal shipping charges which we feel will not be a problem to you.
Before your winnings was released to security company a hard cover insurance policy was placed on your winnings by Peugeot Automobiles to avoid any harm or illegal channeling due to this, deduction of any amount of money from your cheque cannot be done from your Won prize. The instructions given inline with the rules and regulation of the British gaming board is that once you get your winning cheque you are expected to deposit it in your personal bank account and there is a certain assurance that the entire Three hundred thousand pounds sterling÷Õ you have won will be accredited into your account in not less that three to four banking days please note.
The (Peugeot car ) you have won, which is the main reason why this event was held will be shipped by Peugeot personal to your current location without any cost and once your car get to your current destination their agent in your locality will invite you to claim the car with the shipment papers and car documents that is presently inside the package you have with the Security company and as soon as you present those documents on getting there the car will be given to you so please make sure you contact the security company and provide them with their request so as to enable them ship your package, as your claims officer I will also be of great assistance to you so incase of any questions feel free to contact me anytime .
CONTACT INFORMATION .
LINEX EXPRESS
Unit 20 Britannia Industrial Estate
Poyle Road, Colnbrook, Berkshire SL3 0BH,
United Kingdom
Tel: 447045758399
E-mail:customercare.linex@gmail.com
Write to them via email upon receipt of this mail without wasting time. You are to Furnish them with your Full Name,Telephone number and Postal Address , Once again, keep us posted on any development with the Security Company, in relation to your lottery winnings.
Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your claims have been fully processed and your money remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid multiple claims and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants.
Congratulations once again.
Best Regards,
Sir John Greening (claims officer)
Peugeot Automobile Lottery Promotions
Thanks everibody . I hope I will never get these spasm messages again.
LOTTERY SCAM:-
♦Its purely a ‘SPAM’. Do not respond to any of those messages as they intend to ‘STEAL’ your personal information. It is also enough for one E-mail to bait users into more of such lottery winning games. It is entirely a ‘FAKE’. Who would give you free money if you had never participated in any of the contests?
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse/abuse-15.html
♦Its an EASY way of getting personal information and send you MORE of such messages to FILL up your Inbox! Yahoo keeps telling that they never send lottery E-mails to anyone saying that you’ve won XXX amounts. Never go to a site, which has contests and hosts mail lotteries.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse/abuse-63.html
♦People get thousands of E-mails everyday saying that they’ve ‘WON’ lottery prizes and amounts and even go to the extent of claiming their prize. NEVER RESPOND TO IT!!
Folks are also getting ‘DUPED’ by such kind of activities and fall to the trap of spammers! These lotteries ‘CONFIRM’ your working E-mail address and intend to send more of such mails
♦These links could help you out:-
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/phishing/lottery.mspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_scam
Best Wishes and Take Care ♫♪
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April 29th, 2010 at 4:11 am
It’s a phishing scheme designed to steal money from you. Don’t provide any details or respond.
You shouldn’t open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.html )
However, in this case since you have already opened up this email which is a probably a variant of the 419 Nigerian phishing scheme, display all headers and send it to Fraud Watch International. The email address is in the link to the webpage below.
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/lottery/
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April 29th, 2010 at 4:40 am
It’s a Nigeria email scam. Ignore it, delete it, do not answer it.
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April 29th, 2010 at 5:14 am
If they were legitimate, they wouldn’t be using Gmail.
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April 29th, 2010 at 6:01 am
This is just another version of the old Nigerian 419 scam that’s been going on for nearly 20 years. Before email, this crap was done by postal mail. Now, spammers can send out millions of emails which cost them nothing. Please do us all a favor, however, next time, DON’T COPY THE WHOLE DARN THING! We’ve all gotten this or things like this. I’ve been getting them for over 10 years. I hit the spam button and am not bothered again for a while.
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April 29th, 2010 at 6:46 am
it is a phishing email and seems like a variation of the "nigerian scam" (type it in your search engine).
there could be a number of ways that they would try and get your money, this is just "the hook" to get you to bite, the next phase of the scam is where you would find out how they would get your money. just from the email you posted it looks like it could either sell you an insurance policy you dont need or ask you to forward a payment in order for your (500,000) to be released to you!!!! you will never ever receive that money or the car!!!! scams operate on peopels greed! report the email as spam and never ever get drawn in by this form of fraud.
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April 29th, 2010 at 7:15 am
The whole thing is both a fake and an outright fraud. Keep in mind that Peugeot has been in the automotive business for well over a century and doesn’t involve itself into lotteries, promotions, or other similar instruments. Those are the phishers whore illegally using the French carmaker’s name as a front for this "bogus" lottery.
Now the only thing you need to do is just get that message spammed straight into oblivion right away. Remember this is never the way you win the lottery unless you’ve paid some money to play in it.
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April 29th, 2010 at 8:03 am
Scam: I’ve won 4 billion over last 6 months! All I have to do is pay $400 for the delivery of the check [I wonder why a postage stamp won't do!]
I even won money from the Queen of England!!!!
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April 29th, 2010 at 8:09 am
LOTTERY SCAM:-
♦Its purely a ‘SPAM’. Do not respond to any of those messages as they intend to ‘STEAL’ your personal information. It is also enough for one E-mail to bait users into more of such lottery winning games. It is entirely a ‘FAKE’. Who would give you free money if you had never participated in any of the contests?
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse/abuse-15.html
♦Its an EASY way of getting personal information and send you MORE of such messages to FILL up your Inbox! Yahoo keeps telling that they never send lottery E-mails to anyone saying that you’ve won XXX amounts. Never go to a site, which has contests and hosts mail lotteries.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse/abuse-63.html
♦People get thousands of E-mails everyday saying that they’ve ‘WON’ lottery prizes and amounts and even go to the extent of claiming their prize. NEVER RESPOND TO IT!!
Folks are also getting ‘DUPED’ by such kind of activities and fall to the trap of spammers! These lotteries ‘CONFIRM’ your working E-mail address and intend to send more of such mails
♦These links could help you out:-
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/phishing/lottery.mspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_scam
Best Wishes and Take Care ♫♪
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