I received an mail that I have won a lucky draw on GSM MOBILE GLOBAL PROMO worth 350000 Euros What do I do?

Question

Some of the Email details:

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION OFFICER,

GSM MOBILE GLOBAL PROMO. CALLE CLAUDIO

COELLO 41, 28001 BARCELONA, SPAIN.

PAYMENT SCHEME FORM NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT

Good to hear from you regarding the GSM MOBILE SWEEPSTAKES, (Dr James Walter) the assigned GSM Cash officer. In line with the commemorating event marking our N 92 GSM Mobile Anniversary we rolled out over €16,000.000.00 (Sixteen Million Euros) for our N 92 GSM Mobile Anniversary Draws. As you already know, all participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Web through a computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 unions, associations and corporate bodies that are listed online and each email address was attached to a ticket number. Your email address ([e-mail]) attached to ticket number: 56475600545188 with lucky Serial number: 21-34-10-12 was selected which automatically makes you one of our lucky winners as part of International Promotion

Answer 1

Even I received that Mail, It is a fake one.

Answer 2

Well what you do is delete it, it's a scam.

This is probably one of the most common scams online these days.  They either want your personal information to steal from you, or money a 'courier fee' or 'taxes' which they will keep and you'll never see any money.

Ask yourself this, why would any company give away close to $20,000,000 just as a promotion?  What's the point?  You can promote a company with $1,000 or $10,000.  There's certainly no need to secretly give money to random people who use the Internet.

Answer 3

i wanna tell you somethings about these kind of emails .. iamsure that you recived this email in your junk mail at yahoo or mail box on hotmail,,,,,,,,,,,do you know how many  emails i recived like this one?? 100's

all of it is fake and scams.. do not give your personal information to them ,, after you replay to the email or may be in th email itself they gonna ask about name, s*x, address, country, bank account ...etc,,  so what you have to do is report pushing scams from your email... i know you couldn't belive it that you won this amount of money because you have some money problems , and you need this kind of money to solve it ,,  so good luck and don't belive these kind of emails

Answer 4

Knowning that the email I got was worthless I responded using 'Michael Mouse' as my name, (taking the micky)  I got a further email, again telling me to claim my prize. Some chance.

FROM THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION OFFICER,

GSM MOBILE GLOBAL PROMO. CALLE CLAUDIO

COELLO 41,  28001 BARCELONA, SPAIN.



Dear: Michael Mouse   ,

Good day to you.  I want to inform you that your verification details have been received and have been processed. I must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our lucky winners in the Euro Million National Lottery Online Sweepstakes International Program.



Do note, that sequel to Gsm MOBILE Lottery Acts 249(n) of 1972 amended in July, 1996 to ensure the actual winning prize get to Winners, the Courier charges cannot be deducted from your winning claims because your winning claim is bonded by a hard cover insurance policy that gives only the winner access to the prize money.

Answer 5

This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet. There is also an online form for the reporting of such - (with links for your own country.)

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/id...

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...

Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Please remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace.

Check out these sites for further information :

http://www.scambusters.com

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

Answer 6

Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri...

http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt...

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...

.Also If you go to the following site you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful

Answer 7

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