Is this Spam?

csnann

I received this today, I don't remember entering this competition. the phone number doesn't look right for a UK company and I have checked the T-Mobile website and theres no mention of any "Anniversary Prize". T-Mobile (UK) Ltd6 Camberwell WayDoxford Technology ParkSunderland,SR3 3XNUnited Kingdom.Dear Winner,We bring to your notice the winning prize from T-MOBILE ANNIVERSARYprogram held on the 18th of April,2008 through Internet ballot Systemamong 20,000 Microsoft users.You are hereby entitled to £ 500 000GBP (FiveHundred Thousand Pounds) winning no: **** To file for your claim,Pleasecontact our customer services for validation.Endeavour to email them the following informations for immediate processing,Full Names:Address:Sex:Age:Country:Phone no:Amount Won:Winning no:Customer Services, Payment and Release order claim,T-MOBILE ANNIVERSARY CLAIMS PROCESSING AGENT.Mr. Bobby AllanEmail: [EMAIL="tmobileuk@mail2consultant.com"]tmobileuk@mail2consultant.com[/EMAIL]Tel: +44-703-195-9014Congratulations once again from our members of staff and thank you forbeing part of our promotional program. Send us an email When completingour forms please remember to include your T-Mobile Winning no to help usassist you with your winnings.Mr. Wepking KellyFor: T-Mobile UKT-Mobile is a registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG.

Poppycat

Looks like the 419 scam same domain name slightly different email addy

http://www.joewein.de/sw/419-mail2world-com.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud

Belnahua

The biggest giveaway is the formatting of the phone number, no one in the UK writes a phone number in that format!

csnann

Aw, I was looking forward to my spending my half a million!

alanrowell

I thought the email address was a bit of a giveaway as why would T-mobile not use their own website address - and googling the one that is given produced loads of stuff about 419 scams

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mail2consultant.com&ie=UTF-8

DatabaseError

as a general rule, you never win competitions without entering them, all spam...
I love the way you blanked out the winning number, just in case...

Paul_Herring

Belnahua wrote: »

The biggest giveaway is the formatting of the phone number, no one in the UK writes a phone number in that format!

I do. In fact all the numbers in my mobile phone are in that format. Perhaps you don't deal with people in/go to other countries?

motorguy

tonyhague wrote: »

as a general rule, you never win competitions without entering them

That would have been the giveaway for me too.

superscaper

For me I'd just check which email address it was sent to. At least once I knew it was a scam I'd know which company had given away my email address.

Belnahua

Paul_Herring wrote: »

I do. In fact all the numbers in my mobile phone are in that format. Perhaps you don't deal with people in/go to other countries?

If you look at the formatting, it's been written in the North American format!

We would write +44 1234 345678 or + 44 (0)1234 345678; so you can cut out your sarcasm thank you very much:rolleyes:!

Paul_Herring

Belnahua wrote: »

If you look at the formatting, it's been written in the North American format!

I didn't notice that, and thought you were referring to the +44 instead of simply using 0.

so you can cut out your sarcasm thank you very much

Perhaps you'd like to be a little less ambigious next time instead of getting all offended when you're misunderstood.