NOKIA UK PROMOTIONS PRIZE SMS

Anonymous
2008-08-17T00:46:39+00:00

Dear Miss/Mr

I was in Dubai for one week and received this text on my UAE mobile (CONGRATS: YOUR MOBILE NUMBER HAS WON FOR YOU THE SUM OF GBP 147000 POUNDS ON THIS YEAR NOKIA PROMO, FOR CLAIMS EMAIL: ******@live.com and call +447035930547)

so I called and a man confirmed this text and advices me to e-mail my details information along with the winning number, I did send my name and phone number, and then I received calls to rush me up and more details e-mail to fill the claming form, all the time Nokia logos are used, now the final e-mail I got after sending a copy of my passport and a residant address, they sent me this note :

NOTE: YOUR FUNDS ARE COMING FROM THE NOKIA PAYMENT CENTER ASSIGNED TO YOUR NETWORK IN THE UK AND THIS MEANS THAT YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE PAY-CENTER UK OFFICE ONLY AND NOT THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES OFFICE. YOUR COURIER PAYMENT IS GOING TO BE SENT TO THE DHL COURIER COMPANY IN THE UK WHO WILL BE DELIVERING TO YOU IN 24HOURS AS SOON AS THEY GET A CONFIRMATION OF YOUR PAYMENT. AND ANY ATTEMPT TO CREATE PROBLEMS FOR YOUR COURIER SERVICE DELIVERY, YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM YOUR CATEGORY AND MIGHT FORE FIT YOUR WINNINGS AND BE REGARDED AS NOT THE RIGHTFUL OWNER OF THAT MOBILE NUMBER. SO YOU ARE ADVISED TO ACT AS INSTRUCTED SO THAT YOUR WON PRIZE CAN GET TO YOU AT THE STIPULATED TIME.

they said to me that You have been instructed by the ad-hoc committee to make the payment of £290.00 Pounds (TWO HUNDRED AND NINTY GBP) via Western Union money transfer outlet close to you, to effect your payment to the Account officer in charge of the delivery of your parcel with the information below, so as to enable them initiate the delivery of your prize winnings to your stated address.

So befor I make payment I am kindly seeking your help to advise if this is a fake or ture

Thank you

Best Regards

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Anonymous
2008-08-17T05:29:33+00:00

Hi Damar,

What you have there is a hoax. Several types of hoax emails/SMS have been discussed on theses boards. Please ref to the link below:

http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=news&thread.id=608

I would suggest that you discontinue all communications with that party and if possible report the parties involved.

Nokia will in no way communicate with you via SMS and we definitely will not ask you to transfer money to a "committee". Any transactions can be verified and if possible will be done via your service providers.

If you wish to have further clarifications, please contact your local Nokia Care Point using the Contact Us link at the top of the page.

Regards,

Dazz19

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-05-27T07:36:01+00:00

    It's obviously a lie, perhaps you should have read this thread you posted on?

    Just delete it and forget about it. Nokia cannot do anything to stop these scammers.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-05-26T22:27:17+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-05-26T22:16:20+00:00

    Dr.Philip Hampton

    NOKIA MOBILE PROMO OFFICER

    Tel:+44 752 963 6313 ****

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-05-26T21:42:58+00:00

    Dear Winner.

    Good to hear from you regarding this year NOKIA UK MOBILE I am Dr.Philip Hampton**, the cash officer assigned to all winner's of Nokia Mobile Promotion and I wish to congratulate you to have emerged as one of our lucky winner for the Promotion   We happily announce to you the result of the Nokia UK Mobile Lottery draws held  in Essex, United Kingdom. from which All participants were selected randomly from a World Wide Web site through  computer draws system and extracted from over 10,000.00 Mobile companies and personal Email address from which your email address was one of the lucky number in this year nokia uk  mobile promo. Your Email address attached toticket number: B9564 7560 with serial number 046560 drew the winning numbers**

    You are therefore been approved to claim a total sum of 250,000,00.00  (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING) in cash credited to fileEAAL/90801100008308/10.


    To begin the verification process of your prize, you are required to fill and send the claims form below in the drafted Application Text in bold and be advice to keep all winnings confidential durring the processing of your claims.



    FILL THE FORM AND SEND IT BACK IMMEDIATELLY

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