**** you guys I'm rich!
12-31-2008, 08:59 AM
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Just got this email, funny thing is I dont even remember entering the contest, but hey emails and the internets never lie.
Shell Development Fund
The Shell Petroleum Development Company
(Customer Services)
Royal Dutch Shell plc
Carel van Bylandtlaan 16
Den Haag 2596 RH
T2P 0J4, UK
Ref: Ng/9420X2/68
Lot: 074/05/ZY369 WINNERS
Serial number: 5368/02
Ticket number: 56475600545 188
Winning Notification:
We are happy to announce the result (# 951) of the e-mail address ballot lottery draw of the Shell Lottery Promo held on the 28th of December, 2008.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers 3 10 21 26 38 43 Bonus of 48, after you won the lottery JACKPOT category in cash credit file. I you have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of U.S. $ 200,000.00 (two hundred thousand dollars) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is part of a total of U.S. $ 2,800,000.00 shared between Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.
This promotion is sponsored by Shell Oil Compnay, as part of our duty towards the countries where we have operational base.
All participants in the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through an electronic selection of winners is using us e-mail addresses from dif ferent World Wide Web (WWW) sites, from over 100,000 unions, associations, companies and organizations, whic h are listed on line . This promotion is held weekly.
For security reasons, you're advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claims is processed and your money sent to you in any way you wish to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
To claim your prize. Please contact the Agent
Name: Rev. Michael Goodman (Shell Fund Mgt.)
Email: revgmichael@live.com
Fill the information below adne e-mail it to Agent Rev. Michael for immediate payment of your shell prize donation.
NAME ...........................
WINNERS AND MAIL ..............
ADDRESS ........................
FULL ADDRESS :.....................
YOUR CITY resident ...........
SEX:. M. .....................
Date of birth ...................
TELEPHONE.. ...............
AMOUNT WON ..................
Do not reply to this address, kindly contact our agent rev. Michael Goodman through his e-mail
(revgmichael@live.com)
Note: All claims must be made on or before 3 weeks from the date of i nitial notification.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Shell Petroleum Development Company!
Yours sincerely,
Janet Walter
Manager notification
The Shell Petroleum Development Company
(Customer Services)
Royal Dutch Shell plc
Carel van Bylandtlaan 16
Den Haag 2596 RH
T2P 0J4, UK
Ref: Ng/9420X2/68
Lot: 074/05/ZY369 WINNERS
Serial number: 5368/02
Ticket number: 56475600545 188
Winning Notification:
We are happy to announce the result (# 951) of the e-mail address ballot lottery draw of the Shell Lottery Promo held on the 28th of December, 2008.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with serial number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers 3 10 21 26 38 43 Bonus of 48, after you won the lottery JACKPOT category in cash credit file. I you have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of U.S. $ 200,000.00 (two hundred thousand dollars) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. This is part of a total of U.S. $ 2,800,000.00 shared between Ten (10) lucky winners in this category.
This promotion is sponsored by Shell Oil Compnay, as part of our duty towards the countries where we have operational base.
All participants in the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through an electronic selection of winners is using us e-mail addresses from dif ferent World Wide Web (WWW) sites, from over 100,000 unions, associations, companies and organizations, whic h are listed on line . This promotion is held weekly.
For security reasons, you're advised to keep your winning information confidential until your claims is processed and your money sent to you in any way you wish to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program.
To claim your prize. Please contact the Agent
Name: Rev. Michael Goodman (Shell Fund Mgt.)
Email: revgmichael@live.com
Fill the information below adne e-mail it to Agent Rev. Michael for immediate payment of your shell prize donation.
NAME ...........................
WINNERS AND MAIL ..............
ADDRESS ........................
FULL ADDRESS :.....................
YOUR CITY resident ...........
SEX:. M. .....................
Date of birth ...................
TELEPHONE.. ...............
AMOUNT WON ..................
Do not reply to this address, kindly contact our agent rev. Michael Goodman through his e-mail
(revgmichael@live.com)
Note: All claims must be made on or before 3 weeks from the date of i nitial notification.
Copyright © 1994-2008 Shell Petroleum Development Company!
Yours sincerely,
Janet Walter
Manager notification
12-31-2008, 09:34 AM
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Have you received an email from "Jeroen van der Veer" at "Shell Lottery Promo" saying you won their promotion or lottery promo and to contact "Harrison ***" to collect your winnings? It is a scam. Don't get too excited if the names are different; the scammers make many versions of this scam! And don't be impressed by the bright colors and photos; anyone can cut and paste photos and use bright colors; it doesn't add any legitimacy. The line about "10% of your claim will go for the tsunami victims" is odd, at best. If they are your winnings, YOU decide what to do with the money. Shell, or any promoter or lottery can donate their own money however they please. This is merely an attempt by scammers to use a "red herring" to confuse the victim and give it an appearance of altruism. Just like with religious fanatics, those that yell the loudest about values are usually the worst at living them!
It is actually a very simple scam. They claim you won a promotion, which is giving away millions of dollars based on a randomly selected email address. The scam is obvious: it's simply preposterous to think that any company would randomly give away money to encourage you to buy their product. That would be self-defeating.
There are many other signs that this is a fraud that we have highlighted in the email below, not the least of which are:
Email address ballot: There is no such thing as a "computer ballot system" or "computer email draw". No one, not even Microsoft has a database of email addresses of the type or magnitude they suggest.
Terrible spelling, punctuation, syntax and grammar - Scammers apparently don't know how to use spell checkers. We assume they dropped out of school before that class. They use almost random CapItaLiZAtion and often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to be "22nd". These scammers usually write at the 3rd grade level.
Using free email account: The scammer is writing to you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization would use its own email, its own domain and website? Wouldn't they want to promote that?
What are they promoting? No one promotes "world peace" or "use of the internet" by handing out millions to random strangers. And if they are promoting a product, then this must be the world's worst promotion, because no one has heard of it, outside of the email you just received.
It is actually a very simple scam. They claim you won a promotion, which is giving away millions of dollars based on a randomly selected email address. The scam is obvious: it's simply preposterous to think that any company would randomly give away money to encourage you to buy their product. That would be self-defeating.
There are many other signs that this is a fraud that we have highlighted in the email below, not the least of which are:
Email address ballot: There is no such thing as a "computer ballot system" or "computer email draw". No one, not even Microsoft has a database of email addresses of the type or magnitude they suggest.
Terrible spelling, punctuation, syntax and grammar - Scammers apparently don't know how to use spell checkers. We assume they dropped out of school before that class. They use almost random CapItaLiZAtion and often can't even spell "February" or know that "22th" ought to be "22nd". These scammers usually write at the 3rd grade level.
Using free email account: The scammer is writing to you from a FREE email account (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.). Don't you think a real organization would use its own email, its own domain and website? Wouldn't they want to promote that?
What are they promoting? No one promotes "world peace" or "use of the internet" by handing out millions to random strangers. And if they are promoting a product, then this must be the world's worst promotion, because no one has heard of it, outside of the email you just received.
12-31-2008, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ColinRX7' post='913950' date='Dec 31 2008, 03:46 PM
yeah cause shell just doles out 2.8 mil for "the people" like that
yer just jealous cause i'm loaded, i already started spending the loot
12-31-2008, 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Rob x-7' post='913955' date='Dec 31 2008, 06:21 PM
i think we have to split the prize because I won as well
i think it's two separate prizes, but really what the odds right?
