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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Mark Woods - Pepsi Bottling Company

 

Fraud. Note the South African hotmail address.

One out of five!

PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
151 CANADA SQUARE,
CANARY WHARF, LONDON, E14 5DY,
UNITED KINGDOM.

Dear Recipient We are happy to inform you that you have just won yourself the sum of 5 million Dollars.Note that your email address was selected via our computer draws held today. Your File number attached to your ticket is OEP00934/UK.
Kindly contact your claims agent via email address below.
Claims Agent

Name:Cherry Rings
Email:pepsiclaimsdesk04@jmail.co.za

Best Regards,
Mr.Mark Woods

Important Notes :-

1. Whatever you do, do not respond to any e-mail like this. If you have given bank details to any fraudster like this, then inform your bank immediately and also make sure that you close the account.

2. If the e-mail mentions a well known e-mail address such as from gmail.com, live.com, yahoo.com etc., then why not forward the offending e-mail to abuse@gmail.com, abuse@live.com etc. Hopefully, they'll remove the e-mail address, which will stop people being sucked in.

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