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You Have Won The "Apple Iphone Nokia 8GB"... Honestly!
Published by Ewan Spence at 10:01 UTC, February 21st 2008
Opening my email, I see I've won an amazing prize - the "brand new Apple Iphone Nokia 8GB"! It's allegedly part of the "Nokia 'N' Series New Year Program", and also comes with a cash prize of five hundred thousand pounds.... Oh it's spam? Darn. But isn't it interesting that viagra is no longer the big draw in email fraud, but phrases like "to promote the use of mobile phones with the world as a global village" are? More below...
Here we go, all the fun of the mail:
FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGER
NOKIA N'SERIES PROMOTION
TRANS-ATLANTIC S.A LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM
We are delighted to inform you of your prize and Brand new Apple Iphone Nokia 8GB release on the 25th Jan, 2008 from the NOKIA 'N' SERIES NEW YEAR PROGRAM. Your e-mail was attached to ticket number 1110008342, serial number 6028808. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-15-4-38-1 bonus number 20, which consequently won the lottery in the First category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum of GBP £500,000.00(FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS) in cash credit file ref NKN/UK 110241/01 from the total cash prize of GBP £50,000,000.00(FIFTY MILLION GREAT BRITISH POUNDS) shared amongst 50 (Fifty) lucky winners in this category.
All participant were selected through a sorting and filtering program designed by NOKIA TECHNICAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT from 50,000,000 (Fifty Million) e-mail addresses from the web in a bid to promote reliance on the telecommunication industry as a global and convenient means of communication. This is part of our international promotions program which is conducted yearly to promote the use of mobile phones with the world as a global village.Your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your GBP £1,000,000.00(ONE MILLION GREAT BRITISH POUNDS) will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.
To file for your claim,Please contact our Fiduciary Agent for VALIDATION.
MR GEORGE PATTERSON.
Foreign Services Manager, Payment and Release order
Department,LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
Email: contactmrgeorgepatterson@gmail.com
To file for your claim,Please contact your claim Agent with your personal detail for VALIDATION. VERIFICATION AND FUND RELEASE FORM FILL OUT AND SEND TO THE E-MAIL ABOVE.
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FULLNAME:
ADDRESSE:
CITY/STATE:
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
MARITAL STATUS:
NATIONALITY:
SEX.
DATE OF BIRTH:
OCCUPATION:
AMOUNT WON:
NOTE: Please choose one of the most preferrable options of receiving winning claims below:
1 BANK TO BANK WIRE TRANSFER
2 COURIER DELIVERY SERVICE
Contact: Mr. georgepatterson
Thank you for being part of this promotional email lottery program.
Regards,
Mrs. Darryn Clarke
NOKIA! 2008 Lottery program
News Discussion
Thank god, with all the viagra mails I've been recieving I was beginning to get paranoid.
If you re-read it I don't think you are getting a free iNokia Apple95 NSeries phone, just the cash.
"We are delighted to inform you of your [Cash] prize
and [The] Brand new Apple Iphone Nokia 8GB release on the 25th Jan, 2008"
I really can't see a mobile phone (no matter how smart) being succesfully wired to your bank account. I can just imagine trying to get it out at the Cash Machine or over the counter.
There is also another variant, where the sender purports to represent Nokia Multimedia (or Apple or Sony or ..), and tells that the receiver has won a N95 (or whichever is the company's flagship product) and the receiver just needs to claim his/her prize from them. The idea is to flood the said company with such claims, and if any of the victims starts to blame the target company, the better. I just got one such email - and was not a bit surprised when I studied the headers and found out that it really originated from a node with country code 'de' ..
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