Have you received an email from "Mrs. Litza Martinez" at "Samsung Electronics Lottery / Lotteria" saying you won
their promotion or lottery promo and to contact "Dr. Owen Briggs" to collect your winnings?
I suspect Samsung would be surprised to learn that they have a
lottery-promotion-sweepstakes-lotteria (whatever THAT may be!). And pity poor
Doctor Briggs: he studied hard to get a PhD, and now he works as a reimbursement
clerk in a promotions department.
Of course, it is a scam. And don't get too excited if the names are different; the scammers
make many versions of this scam!
It is actually a very simple scam. They claim you won a
promotion, which is giving away millions of dollars based on a randomly selected
email address. The scam is obvious: it's simply preposterous to think that
any company would give money away randomly to encourage you to buy their product. That would be
pointless and self-defeating.
Although the most important clue is that no legitimate lottery,
and almost no legitimate sweepstakes or promotions will email a winner, there are many other signs that this is a fraud.
We have
highlighted some of these in the email below, not the least
of which are:
It is a typical scam promotion sweepstakes winning notification. Also
see these pages:
SAMSUNG DE LOTTERIA
INTERNET EXTRA AWARD PROGRAM),
U.K OFFICE.ENGLAND.
FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONAL LOTTERY
COORDINATOR, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
HART STREET 34,WALSALL.WS1 3PE
WEST
MIDLAND, LONDON.
Ref: EGS/2251256003/02
Batch: 14/0017/1PD
INFORMATION FROM SAMSUNG
ELECTRONICS The board of directors and entire member of staff of the SAMSUNG
DE LOTTERIA wishes to inform you of the result of the (Email Address
Ballot)online Sweepstakes international program held at the British
Headquarter.
Your email account have been picked as a winner of
Six Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling(£600,000.00) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03. This is from a total sum of Four Million, Two hundred
Thousand Pounds Sterling (£
4,200,000.00) shared amongst seven winners.
This results for 12th JANUARY, 2008 is now released
to you today and your email address attached to ticket number: 56475600545
188 with Serial number
5368/02 drew the lucky numbers - 01- 02- 04 - 38 -
42- 43- and bonus ball -
23 - in the Lotto,participants
were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Microsoft users
from company and individual email address users.
Your fund is now deposited in an offshore bank with
a hardcover insurance.
Due to the mix up of some numbers and names, we
advice that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been
processed and your money remitted to your nominated bank account as this is
part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unwarranted taking
advantage of this program by the general public.
Be advice to keep your winning information
confidential until your claims have been processed and your money remitted
to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted abuse of this program. For the release of your winning, kindly
contact your claims supervisory officer at
**********************************************
The Samsung Lotteria Head Quarters,
PROMOTIONS/ PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
HART STREET 34,WALSALL.WS1 3PE
WEST MIDLAND, LONDON.
Payment Release Order Department
Contact Person: Dr. Owen Briggs
Tel: +44 70457 66600
+44 70457 66386
Fax:+44 70928 90315
Email:
owen_briggs@hotmail.com
*************************************************
You are therefore advised to give the following
informations to the
fiduciary Dr. Owen Briggs via email
owen_briggs@hotmail.com 1. Full name and address.
2. Country.
3. Tel and fax number.
4. Occupation.
5.Email Address.
6.Age:
7.Country:
8.Scanned International Passport/Driver
Liences.
Congratulations from the entire member of staff and
thank you for being part of our email account users program.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Litza Martinez,
Executive (International Sweepstakes).
Dr. P. Swier, Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager Foreign
Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden (Manager Domestic Banking
Operations), Dr. James Williams(Director International Credit Department),
Mrs. Sandra Murphy (Executive), Mr. Michael Cole (Executive), Mr.Stephen
Boer (Chairman).
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