Vodacom deal request email received, that I didn't request

Email text:

Hello [My full name],
We have received your deal request and your reference number is 8969879
A Call Centre agent will contact you within 24 hours to complete your order and if it's successfully processed
before midday, you'll get FREE next-day delivery.
If you don't hear from us within the next 24 hours, please call 08217844, FREE from a Vodacom cellphone.
Regards
The Vodacom Online team

ĺ…¸his e-mail is sent on the Terms and Conditions that can be accessed by Clicking on this link https://webmail.vodacom.co.za/tc/default.html "
 
Probably one of your friends signed you up
 
supersunbird said:
Someone is using your identity to commit fraud and will have a free cellphone. Better follow up.
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Happened to me at MTN, got an sms that my upgrade has been successful. Phoned them and found out I just upgraded in a branch in Johannesburg... I phoned them from Cape Town. Sigh.

Report it as fraud at the police office and get the contract cancelled.
 
They probably sent it to your gmail e-mail address. IIRC About a year ago gmail stopped recognising dots in e-mail addresses. So [email protected] would now go to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc.

Ever since this, I have been getting policy docs, account statements, etc to my gmail account. In some cases I have replied to the sender stating they have the wrong e-mail address, but just gave up. Now I just ignored it.
 
marco79 said:
They probably sent it to your gmail e-mail address. IIRC About a year ago gmail stopped recognising dots in e-mail addresses. So [email protected] would now go to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], etc.

Ever since this, I have been getting policy docs, account statements, etc to my gmail account. In some cases I have replied to the sender stating they have the wrong e-mail address, but just gave up. Now I just ignored it.
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Nope, this was on my personal domain email address.
 
Ooooh, nice scores, where you get them in that format?

Well, I'll guess you have to wait for VC to give feedback.

And remember, if there was fraud, you'd have to wait a bit for a new account to show (that you met the monthly obligation), and if you are already a VC customer in good standing they might not have run a credit check on you and also it might just be added to your VC account and thus not show separate on the credit report.
 
supersunbird said:
Ooooh, nice scores, where you get them in that format?

Well, I'll guess you have to wait for VC to give feedback.

And remember, if there was fraud, you'd have to wait a bit for a new account to show (that you met the monthly obligation), and if you are already a VC customer in good standing they might not have run a credit check on you and also it might just be added to your VC account and thus not show separate on the credit report.
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I got it here @ R99:
https://www.credithealth.co.za/complete-credit-report.htm

Paid this time as I didn't want to take any chances.

I do have a Vodacom contract already. And you are right, if this was only the deal request, it will take a while before an account shows up (if any).
 
Might be unrelated but 2 strange things this week:

Received a WhatsApp from an unknown person asking if I tried to call them. I asked who they were, they didn't answer.

Received a call from just a "+" sign. When I answered it said I was the only participant in a conference call. I hung up.
 
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