Did i hit the jackpot?

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I recievd this sms this morning,the guy at the other end realy says welcome to Nokia"...the catch is that i should buy MTN airtime to the value of R720 before the price can be transfered into my acc...
Pls advice!
Congratulation! your mobile no. won, R95,000. In NOKIA YEARLY PROMO. With Ticket no. P286. For Claims Call :0783658796 OR Email to [email protected]
 
Whoohoo. Nice man. GO for it and well done. What will you do with the money?





Seriously? Delete the message and move on. Its a scam
 
Kgabogk said:
I recievd this sms this morning,the guy at the other end realy says welcome to Nokia"...the catch is that i should buy MTN airtime to the value of R720 before the price can be transfered into my acc...
Pls advice!
Congratulation! your mobile no. won, R95,000. In NOKIA YEARLY PROMO. With Ticket no. P286. For Claims Call :0783658796 OR Email to [email protected]
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Dude?

Do you think in this life Nokia would use a live.com email account? Furthermore. Did you enter any competition with Nokia? No, then how could you win?

Please realize that this is 2009 and 419 scammers and phishers and all other evils in the world will tell you any tall tale to get you to do as they will.

Don't give into this and if you do, realize again that you were warned.

Nothing in life is free, nothing, everything has a price to it.

So next time you ask if you hit the Jackpot, don't.
 
When you have to spend a cent of your own money first you are being scammed period. Just googled it and saw some dumb british guy paid 1000GBP Sterling to these clowns. dumbass
 
JIMMYtheSKULL said:
When you have to spend a cent of your own money first you are being scammed period. Just googled it and saw some dumb british guy paid 1000GBP Sterling to these clowns. dumbass
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Indeed. I've never heard of -any- competition that requires you to pay a "deposit" to get the prize. I mean come on, they give you money, why do they need you to pay money to get money?

Tell them to subtract it from your winnings :) Since you won R95k, they should know you're good for the R720, right?

That said, with MTN anything is possible, they'll charge you R720 to -enter- the competition, and then you're simply part of a rigged draw...not actually the winner...
 
Just one of 100's of pointless threads are started each day lately on this forum. I've seen guys that have been here for 2 years with more than 500 posts that actually ask what the difference between local and international bandwidth is. To mention something silly. They even ask whether you need to pay Telkom in order to have DSL, but yes, they've been a Master on the forum for ages? :confused:

Things are getting scary in this place, no offense to rpm, but our cumulative IQ is dropping rapidly.
 
teraside said:
Just one of 100's of pointless threads are started each day lately on this forum. I've seen guys that have been here for 2 years with more than 500 posts that actually ask what the difference between local and international bandwidth is. To mention something silly. They even ask whether you need to pay Telkom in order to have DSL, but yes, they've been a Master on the forum for ages? :confused:

Things are getting scary in this place, no offense to rpm, but our cumulative IQ is dropping rapidly.
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Welll the forum title is
"Broadband & ADSL Forums - Internet, Gaming,Hardware, Software "

So it's not unlikely for someone who's into software to know nothing about ADSL. I mean i was on this forum for years and only internet connection i had was Vodacom 3G/GPRS , the intricacies of ADSL+Telkom totally eluded me until recently actually. I even remember why i joined this forum, it was when Sentech was getting a public hammering , when guys were doing speed-tests on the news proving Sentech's poor service and it was all happening here.

But on the other hand, i am aware alot of people only live in the "off-topic" part of this forum, which is like a facebook crowed talking about weight-loss,car insurance and their marriage problems...and that's all they do.
 
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teraside this post might not be of interest to you but surelly it is an eye opener to others and might as well warn a lot of people about this scam/if it is of no interest to you move on sir...
 
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diabolus said:
Welll the forum title is
"Broadband & ADSL Forums - Internet, Gaming,Hardware, Software "

So it's not unlikely for someone who's into software to know nothing about ADSL. I mean i was on this forum for years and only internet connection i had was Vodacom 3G/GPRS , the intricacies of ADSL+Telkom totally eluded me until recently actually. I even remember why i joined this forum, it was when Sentech was getting a public hammering , when guys were doing speed-tests on the news proving Sentech's poor service and it was all happening here.

But on the other hand, i am aware alot of people only live in the "off-topic" part of this forum, which is like a facebook crowed talking about weight-loss,car insurance and their marriage problems...and that's all they do.
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Thanks for expanding my standpoint. Fact remains. People start a new thread for every thought that pops into their minds. The guys that's been around the block always sit back and smile and answer over and over and over and over (should I go on?) and over again. It's getting old. Use search.
Kgabogk said:
teraside this post might not be of interest to you but surelly it is an eye opener to others and might as well warn a lot of people about this scam/if it is of no interest to you move on sir...
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No sir, use google next time, thanks.
snakepit said:
oh dear, now ure gunna get it, dont post things like that in the MTN forum eisch:D
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Grrr... ;) :D :p
 
From The Desk of Mrs
SUSAN H.BROWN
2010 Mobile Draw Result
PO Box 1010,
Liverpool L70 1NL-
United Kingdom
Attn: Dear Winner
This is to inform you
that you have won prize
money of Two Million
Eight
Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars (US
$2, 800,000. 00.) for this
month,
Prize promotion which
is organized by FIFA
through collective
numbers of the
people that are active
with their numbers,
among the millions that
subscribers and Mobile
Draw select one million
cell phone numbers as
part of
the FIFA 2010 Award
Promotion but only to
those residing outside
the United
Kingdom. Two people
are selected monthly to
benefit from this
promotion and
you are one of the
Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND
CLAIM
Winners shall be paid in
accordance with his/her
Settlement Centre. FIFA
2010 Mobile Prize
Award must be claimed
within the stipulated
time frame
from date of Draw
Notification. Any prize
not claimed within this
period
will be forfeited and
below are your
identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER:
FIFA-SA/40/UK-4329
REFERENCE NUMBER:
UK231/SA1492
PIN: 42341
These numbers fall
within the United
Kingdom Location file,
you are
requested to contact
our fiduciary agent in
London and send your
winning
identification numbers
to him; below you will
find a Documentation
Form,
requesting you're
required Particulars.
MOBILE ONLINE
DOCUMENTATION FORM
FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS
STATE: ___
PHONE:/FAX_
CELL NUMBER_
COUNTRY__
SEX:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
NATIONALITY__
You are required to fill
and submit the above
particulars to our
Overseas
Claims Payment Unit
with the below email
address.
Contact Person: Name:
Chris Dean B
Tel/Fax: +44 709 298
1941
*Email:[email protected]*
<Email
%[email protected]>
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
At your disposal, I
remain.
Yours in service,
Mrs sUSAN H.BROWN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WARNING!
Do not tell people about
your Prize Award until
your money is
successful
handed over to you to
avoid disqualification
that may arise from
double
claim. You may also
receive similar message
from people portraying
to be
other Organizations or
Mobile Draw. This is
solely to collect your
personal
information from you
and lay claim over your
winning. In event that
you
receive any thing
similar to the
notification letter that
was sent to you,
kindly delete it from
your phone and give no
further correspondence
to such
person or body. Mobile
shall not be held
responsible for any loss
of fund
arising from the above
mentioned
 
^^^^^ This is why you have a delete option on your handset. Never ever reply to any of these!
 
I get that spam at least twice every day. Dunno where these people get my email address from.
 
teraside said:
Just one of 100's of pointless threads are started each day lately on this forum. I've seen guys that have been here for 2 years with more than 500 posts that actually ask what the difference between local and international bandwidth is. To mention something silly. They even ask whether you need to pay Telkom in order to have DSL, but yes, they've been a Master on the forum for ages? :confused:

Things are getting scary in this place, no offense to rpm, but our cumulative IQ is dropping rapidly.
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Shhh, We are hiding from stupid people;)
 
diabolus said:
Indeed. I've never heard of -any- competition that requires you to pay a "deposit" to get the prize.
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In our own country there's a company called Homemark that has a reputation for exactly this type of scam.

"Congratulations, you have won a remote control, inflatable bed, electric pineapple peeler... Contact Homemark to claim your prize. Postage and packaging to be paid.

You then have to pay more than the article's value to have it delivered, and no, you can't collect it...
 
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