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May 25, 2010I have been notified by e-mail that I am a winner in a promotional award and it requires that I pay up front certain fees for delivery of my award. How do I ensure the validity of this award ?
This consolation award is suposedly from Microsoft, and bears their logo. The delivery fee is to be paid to City Link Courier Limited, which is a valid Courier Service.
Horaayy..there are 7 comment(s) for me so far ;)
You use common sense. Any time you are asked to pay money to get a prize, red flag warnings should be up everywhere. It’s a scam. And you know it, or you wouldn’t be asking this in Spam & Bulk Mail. It’s spam and you should never have opened it much less believed it.
First off, if you have to pay to win something free, then you haven’t won anything but the right to give away your money. It’s illegal to charge a fee in a legitimate contest for a free prize - that should be your first clue that it’s nothing but a scam.
None of those email lottery and award notifications are legitimate or valid. Forget free easy money - it doesn’t happen like that!
Common sense ought to tell you this is nothing but an outright scam, so do yourself a favor and just give the “phishy” message the spam “heave-ho” into the garbage and leave it be. This is something I wouldn’t even touch with a ten-foot pole. Also, never assume you win the lottery unless you’ve played in it.
This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them.
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. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.
Check out these sites for further information :
you can’t win what you don’t enter. Its a scam to get your money, they courier service is legitimate, the receiver isn’t.
Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo other e-mail lottery, it’s a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information
.Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful
You can do a search for them but those types are all frauds.