Competitions Discussion Thread Part 13

mistymcnoodle

I have also received a similar email from the following address:

knilesyliu@hotmail.com

Greetings Slater Claire.agency is seeking for industrious representative in Europe.
No practice required - easy study available. Big profit potential.
We will prepare application blank if you are ready to work.
Requirements:
- Must own a notebook with unlimited email access.
- Must own personal bank account.
- Requires excellent organizational skills.
- applicants must be smart and business oriented.
Working only some hours per day. You can easy connect our work with your
main work. Any person in the Ireland can be our agent.
Thank you for your attention, Slater Claire.


BEWARE!

turbotina

Same here, they had my full name, deleted straight away.

Mrs_Money

I haven't had this particular one - but like the OP, I have an email address I use just for competitions and also have a lot of scam emails asking for all those sort of details, plus ones purporting to be from banks warning me my account is about be closed unless I log in and give all these details!
It's the downside of comping I'm afraid- mark them as spam and just delete them. Some, it's true, come from certain unscrupulous competition offers who have passsed on our email addresses, others are part (so I've been told) of something called a "dictionary attack" where we get mails that don't actually appear to be properly addressed to us - just spam.
It's annoying and time consuming and I'm starting to enter less competitions now because of it. I stick to the competitions from big companies, magazines, TV companies etc now and avoid the smaller ones on blogs etc.

SpeedyGonzalis

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mistymcnoodle Like yours they got my surname and first name the wrong way round so it must be from the same people

BellaWella

I've had the same email this morning! Looked like a scam a mile off & couldn't even get my first and last name the right way round either... :rotfl:

liamell

Yep had it too

Soosieboo

I've not had one to my comping address but regularly get this sort of email on my the addy I use for job seeking.
I've reported loads of them but still get them (usually when I update my CV on various jobsites)

My best advice is to delete it and forget it.

Alternatively you can go here: http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_the_public/topic_specific_guides/spam_emails.aspx

dajohnston10

Hi,
I am still waiting for a payment from One Poll by BACS and it is now 3 weeks.I have sent a message via their homepage and contact us section.Does anyone know of another way they can be hurried up !!

Cheers

Dave

ski_tzo

Got this exact email too

purplecatlover

ive been getting similar for ages, but to my non comping email rather than my comp email. strangly the majority of my dodgy spam like like and including the nigerian type scams goes to my non comp, non forum email addy lol