The "Sony Mobile Sweepstake" Scam at sonysep.net

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Updated: Oct. 30, 2018 2018-10-30T01:46:55
Posted: Oct. 30, 2018 2018-10-30T01:46:30
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www.sonysep.net is a fake "Sony Mobile Sweepstake" website created by lottery scammers, which are being used to trick online users into believing they are winners in some so-called Sony Mobile Sweepstake. The lottery scammers behind the lottery scamming website lure their potential victims to it using email or SMS Text messages, which claim they have won thousands or millions of dollars/pounds, and they should visit either website to claim their so-called prizes.

The Fake "Sony Mobile Sweepstake" Website - www.sonysep.net

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Once potential victims contact the lottery scammers, thinking they are contacting Sony Mobile Sweepstake, the scammers will ask them to send personal information, and subsequently ask them to send money in order to receive their so-called prizes, which the scammers will claim the money is for taxes or processing fees. They will then ask their potential victims to send the money via Western Union, MoneyGram or other money transfer services. Once the scammers have received their victims’ money, they will disappear, leaving the victim frustrated, depress, and a few hundreds or thousands of dollars broke.

The same lottery scammers may contact their victims and attempt to scam them again using the personal information the victims sent to them, or they may sell their victims’ information to other lottery scammers, who will also attempt to scam the victims.

Therefore, online users are asked not to visit www.sonysep.net, or any other websites, which claim they are winners in the Sony Mobile Sweepstake and are asked to send money or personal information in order to receive their so-called prizes.

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March 10, 2019 at 5:24 AM by an anonymous user from: Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Hi, is this a game to you, lets say copy right from sony letting everyone or people use their name. Sony has too find them fake and jail them for copy-right.
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- March 10, 2019 at 9:46 AM by info
  It is a trick or scam created by cyber theives. And, it is hard to find them because they are operating in foreign countries.
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December 24, 2018 at 2:16 AM by an anonymous user from: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Hi, Sony, Merry Christmas I got the massage that I am the Success winner with confidence in my mail box. Would you contact me abut it?
Sincerely yours, Gordana.
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- December 24, 2018 at 4:47 AM by info
  The message is a scam or trick being sent by thieves or scammers.
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