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Saturday, November 08, 2008

Barclays Premiership Promotions

 

Fraud. But would anybody be fooled by this one?

One out of five!

The Barclays Premiership Promotions has awarded your email address the sum of £470000.Kindly contact s.phillips008@hotmail.com for more info on how to claim your award.

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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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