Mobile Phone Number Contest
Complaint
Henry D. Tynon
Country: United States
I've been advice to contact you on possible fraud contest concerning a text message received on 3 August 2011 from World Mobile Promo. The text message stated the following; “Your Mobile Number won 750,000 GBP in World Mobile Promo. Claim Code: WMP11. For claim email: worldpromo@ymail.com and call +447035938836.” I contacted them by email on the 15 August 2011 and have received numerous phone calls today to submit my personal details today. Due today to internet fraud, I would appreciated in knowing if this is a legitimate company I’m dealing with before sending my personal details.
Below is the email I received today asking for my personal details: The eamil address on the email is (Promo World<worldpromo@ymail.com>)
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF CLAIMING PRIZE
•To avoid double claim, impersonation and disqualification, all wining information should be kept strictly confidential until you have received your payment number.
•You MUST be 18 years of age or above and you are required to send a scan copy of your passport or drivers license along with the Verification form.
•As soon as you are verified as one of the winners, you will be required to come to the above address, United Kingdom to redeem your Winning Cheque or otherwise delivered to you in your country.
•Friend and relatives cannot redeem your won prize on your behalf because the certified cheque is covered by an IRREVOCABLE GUARANTEE BOND (IGB).
Section A
First name:
Middle name:
Last name:
Date of birth (yyyy-mm-dd):
Gender:
Occupation:
Address:
Country:
Section B
Cliam Code:
Winning mobile number
Contact email address(s)
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Gramson Leonard.
NOKIA UK PROMOTIONS.
On behalf of all members and staffs of NOKIA Telecommunications, We congratulate you on your win and wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune. Thank you for being part of our commemorative Anniversary Draws..
Best Regards
Henry
Below is the email I received today asking for my personal details: The eamil address on the email is (Promo World<worldpromo@ymail.com>)
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF CLAIMING PRIZE
•To avoid double claim, impersonation and disqualification, all wining information should be kept strictly confidential until you have received your payment number.
•You MUST be 18 years of age or above and you are required to send a scan copy of your passport or drivers license along with the Verification form.
•As soon as you are verified as one of the winners, you will be required to come to the above address, United Kingdom to redeem your Winning Cheque or otherwise delivered to you in your country.
•Friend and relatives cannot redeem your won prize on your behalf because the certified cheque is covered by an IRREVOCABLE GUARANTEE BOND (IGB).
Section A
First name:
Middle name:
Last name:
Date of birth (yyyy-mm-dd):
Gender:
Occupation:
Address:
Country:
Section B
Cliam Code:
Winning mobile number
Contact email address(s)
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Gramson Leonard.
NOKIA UK PROMOTIONS.
On behalf of all members and staffs of NOKIA Telecommunications, We congratulate you on your win and wish you the best of luck as you spend your good fortune. Thank you for being part of our commemorative Anniversary Draws..
Best Regards
Henry
Comments
thank you,you are pest $1.600,000 worth of b... s...
but hey, who are they messing with !
Ahmed from Iraq.
your mobile Niumber won 900.000 GPB in the world mbile promo. claim code: .........for claim email personal details to IPAD03@blumail.org
dont know if its a scam or its for real and if its for real I dont want to miss out
"Your Mobile No. has won 750,000 GBP among the 20 lucky winners in the 2011 UK World Mobile Promo. Wour claim code is WMPA11. For claims, email: wmaward@ymail.com"
"Ymail" is an ordinary free email, perhaps hard to find.
But there is a complementary information: "Sender: 00353879311081". This is a number from the Republic of Ireland, supposedly a mobile (since it sent a SMS).
Knowing where it was sent from, it`s just to track the sender and catch it in striking.
The line that received this msg is from company Yes Optus, Australia.
But the mobile is presently in Brazil. And here, traps like this are annoyingly usual. They allege being tv nets or magazines and say that you`ve won cars, houses, cash. They give a "free" number for reply. If a stupid does, besides paying the call, it's urged to inform all personal data. In Brazil, all these msgs derive from Tim mobile numbers in areas 85 e 88 (State of Ceará). They say that it's all done by gangs inside prisons, but nobody explains how the convicted get so many sim cards, or why they only use Tim chips.
Not any company, however, features this problem. It happens frequently, for instance, on Tim - that, by coincidence, hosts Yes Optus signal in Brazil. Others don't: they seem to have a filter to block such junk that Tim doesn`t possess (or doesn`t activate).
There is other kind of annoyance offered by Tim to their clients: strange calls from unknown numbers, that turn off as soon as you answer. The first reaction is to call back, and then you spend your credits. In almost all cases, the replied person says having made no call. Seems like these numbers are alleatorily "jumped" from the sistem and then used to create fake calls, which only exist for the one who gets them.
It's worse if you have a Premium Number: in this case, predatory fake calls increase geometrically, every hour, every day. Years ago, Tim used to sell, at a very cheap price, special numbers extremely easy, but then they stopped selling them and started trying to retreive these numbers to resell them to call centers, enterprises, artists, politicians etc. If you're the owner of a Tim Premium Number in Brazil, you need to turn off your mobile at night or you won't get to sleep.