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
    2013-10-23T14:26:51+00:00

    Attention, You are advised to contact Cyber Investigation Bureau on ******@ymail.com for Lottery winning verification.

    They will verify and inform you if you have really won the Lottery and give you genuine direction on how your winning can be claimed.

    You will only need to send them your name, country of origin and the winning message you received.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-10-28T21:19:59+00:00

    Dear Nokiya Reprasentative

     I;ve Got a mail from Nokiya Company Head Office and it  that is 

    International Remittance Dept;

    Berkley Square, London WIJ 6BD

    United Kingdom.

    Office Number +448712374160

    Dear Lucky Winner

    We are pleased to inform you that your email address has won an Award in the Nokia Company Award Anniversary as organized by Nokia Company United Kingdom.

    Nokia Company. Randomly selected 50 email addresses through a computer ballot system to receive an award of Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds (£500,000.00) and NOKIA LUMIA 920 MOBILE 20 PIECES as part of our for-profit philanthropic wing promotion.

    The online award draws was conducted from an exclusive list of over 25,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the web. No tickets were sold. After the automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of five winners in the category ‘A’ with the following:

    Award Reference code: (Nokia**********)

    File number :( Nokia********)

    Awards must be claimed by the email owner only, not later than 4 weeks from the day of notification Send your complete personal information with your Award Ref. and File no. to us to enable us process your claim. Please kindly forward your full information to this email id ( ******@live.com )

    1. Full Name:

    2. Country:

    3. Address:

    4. Mobile Number:

    5. Marital Status:

    6. Occupation:

    7. Sex:

    8. Age:

    9. Email Id

    10;YOU ARE ADVICE TO SEND YOUR DETAILS TO OUR EMAIL “:********@live.com**

    Ensure that you send all your information to (********@live.com**) to enable us responds back immediately, Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this winning strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money is being remitted to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claims or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program. Please do not reply if you are not the owner of this email address.

    So Kindly Give me information about the mail it fake mail Or Real Reply me arrgently Coz i am sended my all Req.Details...

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-29T02:05:28+00:00

    Great !!!

    Now read the complete thread and you will get the answer to your query ...

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-11-03T23:20:23+00:00

    Hi I have had a letter mailed to the last, that I won the money, I asked for information

    FULL NAMES, ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP, COUNTRY, SEX, AGE, HARIDUS, and so on.

    Nokia Online Email Award Promotion.   Congratulations, Dear Email Winner,   We happily announce to you the draw (#9**) of the Action aid Online Email award organized for email users all over the World as part of our international promotional program to encourage email User. Your e-mail address, attached to ticket pin 1***-4**2-**0, with serial Number 3***-1* and lucky number 3-**-*-**-*5(bonus no.2*) consequently won in The Second Category.  You have therefore been approved to receive the Sum of 500.000.00 GBP Please fill the form below for claims.

    Sender was: ******@glocalnet.netHis name was :  Inget ämne Msn name had been put on LOTTO

    Reply to below email for your claims: ******@live.com

    Thomas Winterbourne

     (Director Of Operation)

    NOKIA AWARD

    +918553821946

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