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"True Move Company Lottery or Raffle Draws" SMS Text Message Scams

The text or SMS below with the message "Congrats Your Mobile Number Has Awarded $250,000.00 USD" and others like it are scams. Therefore, recipients of the same messages are asked not to follow the instructions in them. The aim of the scammers behind the fake messages is to trick the recipients into sending them personal information and subsequently money, by claiming the recipients are winners in some fake lottery or promotion.

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A Sample of the "True Move" Fraudulent Message

From Thailand !ntl Mobile Draw TRUE MOV3 COMPANY
Congrats Your Mobile Number Has Awarded $250,000.00USD to Claim email Your NAME, #, &Country to Draw @tmcldraw.org

TMCL Company Ltd, Thailand

Please see more samples in the comment section below.

Some persons claimed that they have sent their information, completed the basic requirements and were asked to deposit US$ 1,564.00. Please remember this basic and very important rule, if you asked to send money in order to receive money, it is SCAM!

Some of the text messages came from the following telephone numbers:

To help stop the fraudulent text or SMS messages like the one above which claim recipients have won money from the True Move Company, the recipients should report them to their telecommunications service providers.

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Note: Some of the information in samples on this website may have been impersonated or spoofed.

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