Competition Scams - Please Post Them Here

Mips

Anything ending in live.com is a Scam.

That is MSN's new email (a new hotmail account basically)

goldrush1984

Hi,
Ive been entering comps for the past month and not won anything, well anyway I checked my inbox this morning and had an e-mail from these guys
http://www.performance-entertainment.com/en/home.phtml, saying that Id won a hoilday to LA form sometime jan-march(ill find out 10 days before) there were attachments to the document, just basicaly someone had typed up on word. They need my name/address, DOB, if I speak english, how many beds etc, but dont ask for money.

Im very dubious! Any advice???

Thanks

goldrush1984

Sorry forgot to mention it was a hancock/cineworld prize package!

essexgal

goldrush1984 wrote: »

Hi,
Ive been entering comps for the past month and not won anything, well anyway I checked my inbox this morning and had an e-mail from these guys
http://www.performance-entertainment.com/en/home.phtml, saying that Id won a hoilday to LA form sometime jan-march(ill find out 10 days before) there were attachments to the document, just basicaly someone had typed up on word. They need my name/address, DOB, if I speak english, how many beds etc, but dont ask for money.

Im very dubious! Any advice???

Thanks

Does this help:;)

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1025057&highlight=hancock

essexgal

rachris_2

I recieved a call today(unknown) I Aanswered the phone and it was a recorded message saying "I have been awarded a vacation to take advantage press 9 " I enter a lot of competitions online so I was curious and I pressed 9, a voice (American accent, I am in the UK) replied and said I have been awarded a vacation at one of their resorts.
I asked the operator how did you get my number and she said that you must have had taken a holiday in the last 2 years to one of their resorts. I haven't been on holiday for 3 YEARS!.
I smelt a rat and put the phone down.
I gather this is a scam BUT can I be charged a huge amount per min on my phone bill for just replieing by pressing 9 on my kaypad??
As far as I am aware the maximum you can be charged in the UK is £1.50 a min , But this is dialled from abroad and I have heard stories that people have been charged £20 a min for replieing to these calls.
Is this true? Have I been conned? If so is there anything I can do?
Any good advice would be grateful as I'm starting to get a little worried about this
Thanks Chris

huxdug

Is this another form of the Nigerian 401's ???

Sender UK NATIONAL LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKES
Subject Winning Update

The National Lottery,
P O Box 1010,
Liverpool, L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM
(Customer Services)
Ref:UK/9420X2/68
Batch:074/05/ZY369

WINNING INFORMATION

We wish to congratulate you over your email success in our computer
balloting
held on the 8th August 2008. This is a Scientific Computer Game in
which email
addresses were used. It is a promotional program aimed at encouraging
internet
users; Meaning, you do not need to buy ticket to enter for it.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system
drawn from
Eight hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,Australia, United
States,
Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our
international
promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was
promoted and
sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies to promote
the use
of internet around the world.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 74454774 with Serial
number 144-
66584 drew the lucky numbers: 5-21-23-34-61-72 (Bonus ball)which
subsequently
won you the lottery in the 2nd category.

You havetherefore been approved to claim a total sum of £916,778.00
(Nine
hundred and Sixteen thousand,seven hundred and seventy eight pounds
sterling
only) equivalent to $1.833,556.00 (One million, eight hundred and
thirty three
thousand, five hundred and fifty six dollars only).

Please note that your Original Certificate and your Certified bank
cheque has
been forwarded to the courier company.

Find below the details of the courier company.

TNT COURIER SERVICES
5 Bashley Road,
Park Royal,
London,
NW10 6SD

NAME: MR MILLER BURTLER(dispatch officer)
EMAIL: tntdeliverysection@msn.com

TEL1:+44 703 194 7884
TEL2:+44 703 196 4763

You are advised to send the courier company a mail to their email
address for
their courier cost.

When contacting them,you are to include this order number as your
subject.

ORDER NUMBER:TNT-K562725

Note: you are to furnished the courier company with the following
details so
that they can honour your letter.
1.Full Names:
2.Contact Address:
3.Sex:
4.Age:
5.Marital Status:
6.Occupation:
7.Email Address:
8.Telephone Number:
9.Ref Number:
10.Batch Number:
11.Country:
12.Order Number:

We advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the
public
until your claim is processed and your prize delivered to you. This is
part of
our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking
advantage
of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Once again Congratulations...

Cordially,

Mrs.Tracy Brown
Online Co-ordinator.

mcroodi

Huxdug,

If you type the words "PO Box 1010 Liverpool" into google search you come up with many sites giving you information about this well known type of fraud using the words "National Lottery".

Here is just one of them:

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/nigerian_lottery.htm

Lakshmi7

I've just received a letter from them, guaranteeing me 2 cheques for £9,000. This letter went on for about 5 pages, and each page said that all I had to do was reply with my special code, I didn't have to order anything, (however, if I did, my cheques would arrive about 3 months earlier than if I didn't) and they would definitely send me my cheques. It is only when I checked the fine print (which was on the back of one of these pages) that it states that actually my special code is only to enter me into a draw and they are under no obligation to pay me any money.

Gilla_2

Lakshmi7 wrote: »

I've just received a letter from them, guaranteeing me 2 cheques for £9,000. This letter went on for about 5 pages, and each page said that all I had to do was reply with my special code, I didn't have to order anything, (however, if I did, my cheques would arrive about 3 months earlier than if I didn't) and they would definitely send me my cheques. It is only when I checked the fine print (which was on the back of one of these pages) that it states that actually my special code is only to enter me into a draw and they are under no obligation to pay me any money.

I've just had one of these as well - except it thinks that I'm male!

purplevamp

Just received an email from coca cola with an attachment I have to open saying I've won. I came straight on here and searched, and it looks like it is a scam. I haven't opened the attachment, god knows what's lurking in it, but this is the email address incase anyone else gets one.

[EMAIL="coca.cptsb5@gmail.com"]coca.cptsb5@gmail.com[/EMAIL]


Edit:

Forgot to mention it wasn't in my spam/junk folder, it came through my ok emails!!