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
    2010-04-16T12:54:50+00:00

    The only way it will stop is if the scammers get caught or people stop being stupid and falling for the obvious scams. Unfortunately the scammers are usually clever and operate from countries where they know they will be safe from the law.

    Just like internet scams and email spam people need to be careful with SMS messages too. Like all things in life if it looks to good to be true then it's nearly always false. In the case of these messages common sense has to be used.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-04-16T12:41:53+00:00

    Its April 16 2010 and I have just received this scam sms also. I will let as many people know as possible not to respond. How can we stop this I'll sure there are vulnerable people who will be caught.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-04-10T07:03:44+00:00

    You have won 530,00.00 pounds in the NOKIA Sweepstakes. For claims please send e-mail to**nokia\_******@live.com** and call: +4470-3593-5920

    I recieve also a message on my mobile this morning saying that i won this kind of amount.

    i reply them in e-mail,saying/asking if this true and they send me reply with a form attached.

    And tell me to fill up and send it back to them...

    i did not fill up the form because it looks suspicios and its like scam to me.

    thank you and i hope you make action/report it on police.

    regards

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-03-24T11:15:29+00:00

    It is not nokia that is contacting you so it is impossible for them to stop it. It is scammers that are contacting you and obviously it's impossible for nokia to stop them.

    Report the harassment to your network or the police. They may be able to track down the scammers back to the country of origin if they feel it is serious enough.

    Nokia do not have control of the networks, the police or the world so there is nothing that nokia can do to stop this as they do not have the ability to find the scammers.  That is a job for the police/networks.

    If it was really that easy for big companies to stop scams don't you think they would have all done it many years ago?  Scammers are often clever moving from country to country before they get caught or operating from countries that have no laws to stop them.

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