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BOOTS Gift Card Spam Emails

If you are asked to complete the "BOOTS Survey" below, please do not participate in it, because it is a trick to get online users to purchase products, services, complete questionnaires or surveys, by pretending to offer them free rewards which are actual advertisements. The fake survey or invitation is not associated with BOOTS' and the website that displays the survey will receive compensation for the products or services that they have tricked online users into purchasing. Therefore, online users are asked to delete emails that they have received asking them to take the same BOOTS' survey below, because they will not receive the free products or services they have been promised.

The main purpose of the fake survey is to make online users think they will get a reward for taking it, but the rewards shown at the end of the survey are advertisements that the people who have created the survey will get paid for, once the online users purchase the products or services that are being advertised.

Sample of a "BOOTS Gift Card" Spam Email

Boots Giftcard

Congratulations!

You've been selected and have a chance to win a £1000 BOOTS Gift Card ! No credit card ! 100% free! Limited Quantities Only !

BOOTS is considering a second location in United Kingdom. We sincerely hope that you can give us your opinions.

If you'd like to join this survey, simply answer 3 questions below and CLAIM your £1000 BOOTS Gift Card Now!

Question 1 of 3: Have you ever won a £1000 prize before?

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Oct 6, 2018 at 8:33 AM by
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an anonymous user from: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

I have started to report emails to your listed address as of now, I get a massive amount of emails purporting to be from Asda,mosrrisons,lidl,aldi, amazon.etc.etc

All domains are hosted by namesilo.com their support initially asked for details , then when I did give them all of the details I get anywhere between 5- 20 emails per day, finally they dismissed them as being "spoofed " and not from them; funny when it is hosted by them down to their own name servers for routing of the emails .

I am sure after I reported each and every email to abuse reporting email address I keep getting even more.

Any advice on how to escalate this hosting provider to ICANN and other would be most welcome?
thanks

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Sep 20, 2018 at 5:21 AM by
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an anonymous user from: St Helens, England, United Kingdom

It would help if you showed the address these e mails come from. I have received a couple from boots-email.boots.com that sound like similar fraudulent e mails. Can you confirm that this isn't a genuine Boots email address please?

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Sep 20, 2018 at 5:35 AM by
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info

We will do that, but remember, email addresses can be spoofed. This means you cannot rely on an email address to determine if the email is fake or not.

You will have to look at the email headers to do, which is a little tech savvy.

I can send an email to you and make it appear as if it came from the president by spoofing the email address.

So, send us the email you have received so we can check the headers.

For more information about email spoofing, search for it using our Search engine at the top of the page.

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Jul 18, 2018 at 2:00 PM by
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an anonymous user from: London, England, United Kingdom

Has anyone else had money for goods they haven’t ordered taken out of their account following this survey scam.

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Jul 11, 2018 at 1:20 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Gosport, England, United Kingdom

Beware of happy watches

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Jul 11, 2018 at 1:16 PM by
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an anonymous user from: Gosport, England, United Kingdom

I wish I had seen this before I done it just for postage I could have a watch and sunglasses. I paid £6.99 postage recieved very cheap watch, sort you get out of Christmas cracker and very cheap sunglasses; then find out from my bank they tried to take £84.99 out of my bank twice lucky fraud depth saw it and contacted me and stop payment being as I had brought items from boots online just assumed the survey was genuine.

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