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Hero Honda Raffle Lottery Draw Award Scam

If you receive any e-mail messages and/or text messages (SMS) claiming that you have won a specified amount of money and a motorbike from Hero Honda, please ignore these messages because they were not sent by Hero Honda. This is a scam and these messages are mainly sent to persons in Indian.

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The text messages came from the following mobile numbers:

Samples of the Email/SMS Scam

"Congratulations !!! for winning fund of 750,000.00 gbp

thanks for your quick response about your funds delivery, with response to your mail, please be informed that your funds is ready for disparch. And the name in our list of shipment is: (ICC/034. )

Your winning prize has been verified and approved for payment by hero honda company united kingdom. Your profile (form) has also been received and filled along with other winning documents for record purpose. Delivery will be made to you by a high level representative mr. Paine thomas. Your consignment code is (hhc/034/047icd) you are to keep your consignment code number very confidential from general public and keep us fully informed as soon as our representative contact you on his arrival point in your country india."

"Ur no has won 500.00o gbp with a hero honda bike in on going 2013. Hero honda mobile promo draw.to claim send ur name,ph,add,age,to via hero_win_claim@live.Com how to claim pls provide proper solution"

"Congrats,ur mob no has won{£500,000gbp}with a hero honda bike in 2012 mobile lucky draw,to claim,send ur name,add,ph,age,via email:herohonda43@live.Com"

"dear: winner,

This correspondence officially confirms that we are in receipt of your e-mail regarding the claim of your award prize value of seven hundred thousand great british pounds [700,000.00 gbp] and honda awards. Won from the honda awards international promotion.

Honda company selected 500,000 email address from all the services in all over asian and europe countries and over twenty million email address participated in this award promotion and seven persons from seven different countries were selected to benefit from the promotion and you are one of the selected winner.
So please help with this problem, what should I do. Is this a fraud scam going on or I really won a prize."

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