is this a scam????it says this needs to be 20 characters?
i got an emails a couple of days ago about winning some Toyota lottery here r the emails
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TOYOTA INTERNATIONAL LOTTO (HEADQUATER)
Award Desk Department Affiliate.
China Branch #Room 2904,29floor.Exchange Office
Tower, N0 189 Nanjing Road Helping District, Tianjin, China.
Dear sir/madam,
We are pleased to inform you of the announcement made today, You are among the winners of the TOYOTA
CAR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM participants were selected through a computer ballot system
drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all part of the world as part of our
electronic business Promotions Program.
As a result of your visiting various websites we are running the E-business promotions for. You/Your Company
email address, attached to ticket number 523-958-2261, with serial number TL-909-P874E-69CN, lucky numbers
04, 07 29, 44, 42, 30 and Bonus number 39, Your INSURANCE Number: FLS433/453L/GMSA, Batch
N0:- 538901527-BB67 and consequently you won in the Second Category of the TOYOTA FORTUNE LOTTO DRAW.
You have therefore been approved for the payment of the sum of US$500,000. 00 in cash, including a Toyota
car which is the winning present /amount for the Second category winners. This is from the total prize money
of US$2,650,000.00 shared among the international winners in the Second category.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Please be informed that your won fund of the sum of US$500,000.00 is now with the payee center. Contact our
agent and give them your full names so that they will re-insure your winning fund under your full names.
Together with the port where your winning car should be shipped to.
To begin your claim, please call our claim agent or send email immediately to:-Certificate Agent, Toyota Email Lotto
Mr. Ming Lee
Email: toyotaagentlee@aol.com
Email: toyota_awardnotification@yahoo.cn
Direct line : 0086- 15986392642
Telephone: 0086- 13710948051
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, Please quote your
1. Full name
2. Address / contact number
3. Country of origin
4. Age
5. Occupation
6. Tel/fax.
Sincerely ,
Mrs. Ing Chunny Liu
Hon Online Coordinator
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then i sent this ( i tried to bait him a little )
il send you my info, but 1 queston. what is with your email? not @ toyota.com?
then they sent this to me
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Dear winner,
You can still contact us with this address also, minglee@toyotacn-asia.com .
Thanks.
sounds like a scam im pretty shure it is.. any advice on what i should do?
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7 Responses to “is this a scam????it says this needs to be 20 characters?”
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First of all, this is clearly a scam. You shouldn’t even had replied in the first place, as they now know probably have stored information about your email address. Don’t reply to any more emails, and probably notify send Toyota an e-mail explaining to them that someone are misusing their company name for fraud.
Secondly: Do you even own a Toyota? Have you participated in any contests? Do you really think anyone would just take 2,500,000 random email addresses and give money and cars to some of them?
Rule no. 1 of the internet: Use Common Sense!
Also, if you are in doubt, contact your nearest Toyota dealer and simply ask them.
Lolololol dude, you WON!
Hello there,
…
Seems fake.
But is all the information correct? Did you buy a toyota or something to get maybe a lottery?
But for me it seems fake because the text :
-CONGRATULATIONS!!!
makes me laugh lol
-toyotaagentlee@aol.com
Why aol.com?
-toyota_awardnotification@yahoo.cn
Why yahoo.cn?
But you could try to contact toyota…
Hope helps.
They said dear sir/madam. If it was meant for you, they would’ve used your real name. If you don’t remember entering a toyota lottery, then you couldn’t have actually won one. After you replied, they said “Dear Winner” again, and not used your real name. If you won a lottery they’d probably have more than half that information they’re asking for already.
It is a scam. one of the easiest way to check is to look up the name of the organization. If they where legit they would have a site. Also they would not appear on plenty of scam sites as scam emails.
You may visit sites across the web but how many do you sign up to and leave your email address with.
If you did not enter it then there is no way you could win it.
One final check is to open the headers on the email which show the return email along with the ip address which is another way to check where the email originated from. They rarely match the country the supposed draw is taken place.
Also if you enter the phone numbers given they will show where they come form. The check them against the real number.. From the OFFICIAL site.
The numbers given are in china. But Toyota is a Japanese company.
All signs are pointing to scam..
Plus loads of scam email sites are reporting it as a scam
What you should do is leave it..
What i do when I get these types of emails is send an email back with all the links to the scam email sites with copies of their email.
If they where genuine they would get back but they never do…
Check this out from 2007
http://antifraudintl.org/showthread.php?t=571&page=3
seems familiar? same name and same lay out.
The next step would be they need a fee to sort it out. Well why can they not take that sum out of the prize an send you the sum.
Delete it and forget it
Can not find an OFFICIAL site for this but plenty of reports on its a scam.. Go figure
Sounds like a scam to me. Check out this link,
http://419.bittenus.com/winnings/toyota.htm
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