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HapticSimian

HapticSimian

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Thought you might be interested in this... My wife received the following mail:

Hello Everybody,

MTN is distributing free Mobile Phones for their brand promotion. They
hope to increase their popularity and sale by this campaign. All y
need to do is send an email to about 8 people and you will receive a Nokia
N95.
However, if you send an email about this to 20 or more people, you will
receive a Nokia E90. Make sure you send a copy to [email protected]





Lelani Vogel

cell: 083 212 2320

email: [email protected]
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& subsequent communication:

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 19 November 2008 04:28 PM
To: *
Subject: MTN Phone Acknowledgment

Hi *,

We have received notification that your email reached 8 recipients and
you are now eligible for a new Nokia N95.



A service consultant will contact you shortly via e-mail, regarding the
delivery or collection.



Regards,

The NPS Marketing Team
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Comments?
 
Personally, if I had received that email (my colleague actually did yesterday), I would just delete it and pretend I never got that. But I guess everyone always hopes for a chance to win something...
 
Slootvreter said:
Personally, if I had received that email (my colleague actually did yesterday), I would just delete it and pretend I never got that. But I guess everyone always hopes for a chance to win something...
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Same here... My wife and I are actually in the middle of a bit of a row at the moment because of exactly that reason. The whole 'thanks for supplying them with with email addresses for myself and just about everybody we know'-angle

:mad:
 
The_Librarian said:
points out to her that all emails from MTN will be from *@mtn.co.za and NOT from *@nps.co.za
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Agreed, but as you'll notice the instruction in the first is to cc nissar@[B]mtn.co.za[/B] - never mind the spelling and lacking grammar of the mail.

Regardless, MTN might be interested in following up the issue seeing that their name is being used. That's the main reason I posted this...
 
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Hi guys, 'n global communication was sent out about this. AFAIK, there was an sms sent out globally as well I might be wrong. We have received this communication on Monday I think.

I might have deleted it, let me check if I still have it.
 
Found it

From: Global Forward
Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2008 4:31 PM
Subject: Mobile Phone Scam





Do not forward MTN free mobile phones give-away scam email

If you receive an email containing the following message, please delete it immediately. Do not forward this email as it is a scam.
MTN is distributing free Mobile Phones for their brand promotion. They hope to increase their popularity and sale by this campaign. All you need to do is send an email to about 8 people and you will receive a Nokia N95. However, if you send an email about this to 20 or more people, you will receive a Nokia E90. Make sure you send a copy to [email protected]


Regards
Information Security
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This is being investigated.

I notice the one you have was sent out from Lelani Vogel
I'll get in contact with her quickly.
 
Why do people still fall for these type of emails?
 
Qwikslver said:
Why do people still fall for these type of emails?
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Because everyone is not, unfortunately, as epically techno-savvy as you. As long as such mails are sent, someone somewhere will fall for them...

Never underestimate the power of ignorance.
 
enigma243 said:
Because everyone is not, unfortunately, as epically techno-savvy as you. As long as such mails are sent, someone somewhere will fall for them...

Never underestimate the power of ignorance.
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You don't have to be tech savvy.

If some stranger in the street gave you a hundred flyers and said that if you put then into 8 people's post boxes you would win a cell phone.

Would you do it?

Tech has nothing to do with it. It's a lack of common sense.
 
Qwikslver said:
Tech has nothing to do with it. It's a lack of common sense.
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This isn't meant to degenerate into a debate over the motivating reasons for people believing that Bill Gates will give them a $ for every person they forward a given mail to.

In any event, this particular mail is granted a certain (admittedly low) level of credibility by virtue of its instruction to cc an @mtn.co.za address... As such, I felt it necessary to post it here so that people within the organisation could be made aware of the issue. As you could see from Staalbal's reply, the mail originated from a Mobile Solutions store - from someone who is meant to act as a representative of MTN...

That is all
 
Hi Guys

I have just finished chatting to Lelani.

She was also caught out by the same scam. She forwarded the e-mail upon receipt of it, and also cc'd Nissar in the e-mail.

She sent me the relevant e-mails. The only Nissar we have in MTN works in network group as an IP engineer. And the e-mail address in question does not belong to him.

Pls can anyone confirm if they received any Global sms generated late on Tuesday regarding this ?
 
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