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Sunday, August 05, 2007

Now It's Heineken

 

This is the latest Lotto type scam. From Heineken about the Rugby World Cup.

HEINEKEN INTERNATIONAL NV.

Our Ref: - A7HE9SPL
Your Ref: - ENGPR 0918 LN
Date: 02 / 08 / 2007

Attn Beneficiary:
Sir/Madam,

Heineken N.V is pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded draws of 7 (Seven) Lucky winners selected for the draw in respect to Heineken counts down to Rugby World Cup 2007 with ‘Continental Shift’ campaign.

The lucky draw was conducted on the 13th of June 2007 from an exclusive list of 100,500,000 e-mail addresses of individual and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No tickets were sold for this lucky draw because the draw is to promote both Heineken brand and the Rugby World Cup 2007 that's being sponsored by Heineken N.V.

Your email has been selected as one of the seven winners entitled to gain € 550,000:00 only (Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand Euros Only). Your confirmations winning codes are as below:

**************************************
Ref Number: ENGPR 0918 LN
Serial Number: ENGN00498
Winning Tag Number: LND 672 67 2221 NL
**************************************

Your prize award (€ 550,000:00 only) has been insured with your Winning Tag Number and will be transferred to you upon meeting our requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.

To begin the claims processing of your grant you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited remittance processor:

*********************************************
Mr. Michiel Flu. Willempje
Remittance Processor Director,
Phone: (0031) 61 970 5261
Telex: (0031) 84 725 4616
Email: r.processor@iol.pt
*********************************************

NOTE: Prize award must be claimed not later than the opening date of the Rugby World Cup 2007 in Paris on September 7th 2007. After this date all unclaimed prize awards would be annulled. Remember to quote your Ref Number/Serial Number/Winning Tag Number in your correspondence to the remittance processor, in other for easy assessment (This is important for security reasons and false full claims will not be entertained).

Staffs of both Heineken N.V and its affiliate agencies are automatically disqualified as winners. Thank you and congratulations!!!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs. Rita Upster Smith
(Public Relations)
Email: heineken.nv@iol.pt

The fact that these keep turning up, shows how dedicated law enforcement agencies are all round the world.

Why would Heineken organise their public relations from Portugal?

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I got this email too. I knew this sounded really fishy. There were so many misspelled words I could barely understand it.

Thursday, August 16, 2007 7:35:00 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've recieved this one as well. They just keep turning up, these scams ! Do these people really think we're so gullible ? And why are they still able to send these scam emails out, I thought that the authorities were being pro-active, and having an effect on these scammers..obviously not !!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:25:00 am  

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