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If you have received the fraudulent e-mail below: "From Samsung - you have WON the sum of (£500.000.00) Great British Pounds," please do not follow the instructions in it because it is a lottery scam. There is no Samsung lottery and the fake email message was sent by cyber-criminals/scammers. Sending your personal information to these cyber-criminals will only help them rip you off. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and/or sending money.
From: Online News sudhakar.d@ futuresupplychains.comSubject: From SamsungAddress : Samsung Electronics (UK) LtdSamsung House 1000 Hillswood DriveGreat West Road, Brentford, London.TW8 United KingdomWebsite:www.samsung.comE-mail:samsungcpy@hotmail.comTEL: +44 7937412589Fax: +447937416021DEAR E-MAIL USER:This is to inform you that you have WON the sum of (£500.000.00) Great British Pounds with 1. SAMSUNG WIDESCREEN PLASMA TV 52 INCHES and 1. SAMSUNG BUILT HOME THEATER SYSTEM from our JANUARY 2016 charity bonanza. The draw No.1184 brought out your E-MAIL ADDRESS Through Computer Jackpot from a Data Base of E-Mail Users and qualified you a benefited winner of the stated winning amount, in the ongoing £44.4million Spring promo charity bonanza for London's heritage, Held in JANUARY 2016.The Samsung Company Promo Department gives grants to sustain and transform individual lives all over the globe for the less privilege once; we are here to use our diverse heritage to change lives in every part of the world especially Asia and Africa Continent.Please Fill the Information below and Send To: (samsungcpy@hotmail.com)A Scan copy of your Identification (Driving License or any Valid I.D Proof) is Needed.1. Full Names:2. Full Home Address:3. SEX:4. Winning E-mail Address:5. Country:6. State:7. Occupation:8. Age:9. Mobile Number:10. Your Winning Amount:11. A SCAN COPY OF YOUR ID PROOF12. Make sure you send all your details to this Email(samsungcpy@hotmail.com) for the release of your fundAPPROVEDCONGRATUNATION ONCE AGAIN ON BEHALF OF SAMSUNG COMPANY UK!!Yours FaithfullDr. Matthew HenryTel: +44 7937412589Email:samsungcpy@hotmail.com
From: Online News sudhakar.d@ futuresupplychains.com
Subject: From Samsung
Address : Samsung Electronics (UK) Ltd
Samsung House 1000 Hillswood Drive
Great West Road, Brentford, London.TW8 United Kingdom
Website:www.samsung.com
E-mail:samsungcpy@hotmail.com
TEL: +44 7937412589
Fax: +447937416021
DEAR E-MAIL USER:
This is to inform you that you have WON the sum of (£500.000.00) Great British Pounds with 1. SAMSUNG WIDESCREEN PLASMA TV 52 INCHES and 1. SAMSUNG BUILT HOME THEATER SYSTEM from our JANUARY 2016 charity bonanza. The draw No.1184 brought out your E-MAIL ADDRESS Through Computer Jackpot from a Data Base of E-Mail Users and qualified you a benefited winner of the stated winning amount, in the ongoing £44.4million Spring promo charity bonanza for London's heritage, Held in JANUARY 2016.
The Samsung Company Promo Department gives grants to sustain and transform individual lives all over the globe for the less privilege once; we are here to use our diverse heritage to change lives in every part of the world especially Asia and Africa Continent.
Please Fill the Information below and Send To: (samsungcpy@hotmail.com)
A Scan copy of your Identification (Driving License or any Valid I.D Proof) is Needed.
1. Full Names:
2. Full Home Address:
3. SEX:
4. Winning E-mail Address:
5. Country:
6. State:
7. Occupation:
8. Age:
9. Mobile Number:
10. Your Winning Amount:
11. A SCAN COPY OF YOUR ID PROOF
12. Make sure you send all your details to this Email(samsungcpy@hotmail.com) for the release of your fund
APPROVED
CONGRATUNATION ONCE AGAIN ON BEHALF OF SAMSUNG COMPANY UK!!
Yours Faithfull
Dr. Matthew Henry
Tel: +44 7937412589
Email:samsungcpy@hotmail.com
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This guy is trying this today, June 6, 2018. Please stop him. I know victims of these kind of creeps:"WHATS STOPING YOU FOR CLAIMING YOUR PRIZE OF $800,000 &SAMSUNG GALAXY S8 MOBILE PHONE FOR SO LONG WHATS GOING ON ARE YOU READY TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE ASAPAre you aware that your Twitter profile just won the sum of $800,000.00 and a brand new Samsung galaxy S8 edge in our Samsung promo?We are going to need your following details....YOUR NAMES.....COUNTRY....EMAIL.....HOME ADDRESS....MOBILE NUMBER.....To enable to delivery team deliver your prize to you.$643.00 and within 48 hours your winnings would get to you by home delivery madamOn Twitter under name of Andy Woodford-AdamsSteve7"
Just received an email saying I have won $500.000 from Samsung they just asked if I wanted to receive it by bank account or delivery! I was chosen because of Twitter. Just thought I'd check that it was a scam as I've not replied.
Here is another scam:"Ticket Number: 011425896/2016Serial Number: 3872/506Lucky Numbers: 7/4/88/28/01/40.Dear: Lucky Winner:This is to inform you that your Email have won ($850,000 USA DOLLARS)from the Samsung Electronics Company UK which is organized by Samsung Electronics Company in conjunction with Chevron Texaco Oil and Gas Company, “Your Email Address" were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from Nine hundred thousand email from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceanic as part of our international program which is conducted annually, 20 people’s was selected as our winners, Through electronic ballot System without the winner applying.VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM:-KINDLY SEND YOUR DETAILS TO THIS EMAIL ID: (Ukprize.claim-mit .tc)FOR THE RELEASEOF YOUR FUND IN TIME:1. Full Name:2. Contact Address:..."