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Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I haven't
entered the number or any details.



"Greetings,

Your email address was entered into our September Microsoft X-Box
promotional competition
by yourself or a friend, family member, or associate.

This is a prize draw, you are now the lucky winner of a brand new Microsoft
X-Box Gaming Console!

You are now entitled to simply claim your prize online at our website, you
dont
have to buy anything, just collect your prize that you have already won.
There has only been a few winners out of many thousands of submissions,
so do count yourself lucky!

Please make sure you visit the following link within 72 hours, you have a
temporary passcode.
If you do not go to this link within that time your winning shall
unfortunately be returned to
the prize pool.

Here is your link!
http://www.prizebounty.com/cgi-bin/s...9&winner=33095

On the page you will need to enter this pass code number to proceed: xxxxxxx
This is very important. Do not lose that number!
Put in your address, and we will simply mail your X-Box to you.

We hope that you will enjoy your new X-Box gaming console.

Congratulations on winning,

From Microsoft and the PrizeBounty team! "


--

Kenny

"Kenny" <> wrote in message
news:bl6p91$8nuip$
> Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I
> haven't entered the number or any details.
>
>
>
> "Greetings,
<snippo>

If it seems to good to be true - it probably is!

Bryan said:

> "Kenny" <> wrote in message
> news:bl6p91$8nuip$
>> Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I
>> haven't entered the number or any details.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Greetings,
> <snippo>
>
> If it seems to good to be true - it probably is!
>

I made a request to the OED printing section, and requested they put the word
gullible back into the dictionary.

"Brian H¹©" <> wrote in message
news:rZBdb.1772$
> Bryan said:
>
>> "Kenny" <> wrote in message
>> news:bl6p91$8nuip$
>>> Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I
>>> haven't entered the number or any details.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Greetings,
>> <snippo>
>>
>> If it seems to good to be true - it probably is!
>>
>
> I made a request to the OED printing section, and requested they put
> the word gullible back into the dictionary.

"Kenny" <> wrote in
news:bl6p91$8nuip$:

> Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I
> haven't entered the number or any details.
>
>
>
> "Greetings,
>
> Your email address was entered into our September Microsoft X-Box
> promotional competition
> by yourself or a friend, family member, or associate.
>
> This is a prize draw, you are now the lucky winner of a brand new
> Microsoft X-Box Gaming Console!
>
> You are now entitled to simply claim your prize online at our website,
> you dont
> have to buy anything, just collect your prize that you have already
> won. There has only been a few winners out of many thousands of
> submissions, so do count yourself lucky!
>
> Please make sure you visit the following link within 72 hours, you
> have a temporary passcode.
> If you do not go to this link within that time your winning shall
> unfortunately be returned to
> the prize pool.
>
> Here is your link!
> http://www.prizebounty.com/cgi-bin/s...9&winner=33095
>
> On the page you will need to enter this pass code number to proceed:
> xxxxxxx This is very important. Do not lose that number!
> Put in your address, and we will simply mail your X-Box to you.
>
> We hope that you will enjoy your new X-Box gaming console.
>
> Congratulations on winning,
>
> From Microsoft and the PrizeBounty team! "
>
>
> --
>
> Kenny
>
>
>
>

Looks to me like it's some kind of BS scam. They do this kind of thing
through the regular mail. To get the prize you have to pay something and
then they try to hook you on other things and you buy, buy, buy and it's
worthless non returnable junk being sold. This kind of scam was on 60
Minutes a few years back. If you fall for that, then maybe you'll fall
for something else on a big ticket purchase, in the scammer's mind set.

Duane

"Brian H¹©" <> wrote in
news:rZBdb.1772$:

> Bryan said:
>
>> "Kenny" <> wrote in message
>> news:bl6p91$8nuip$
>>> Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I
>>> haven't entered the number or any details.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Greetings,
>> <snippo>
>>
>> If it seems to good to be true - it probably is!
>>
>
> I made a request to the OED printing section, and requested they put the
> word gullible back into the dictionary.


I like that...
err have they...


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Bebop & Rocksteady said:

> "Brian H¹©" <> wrote in
> news:rZBdb.1772$:
>
>> Bryan said:
>>
>>> "Kenny" <> wrote in message
>>> news:bl6p91$8nuip$
>>>> Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I
>>>> haven't entered the number or any details.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Greetings,
>>> <snippo>
>>>
>>> If it seems to good to be true - it probably is!
>>>
>>
>> I made a request to the OED printing section, and requested they put the
>> word gullible back into the dictionary.
>
>
> I like that...
> err have they...

LOL

"Kenny" <> wrote in message news:<bl6p91$8nuip$>...
> Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I haven't
> entered the number or any details.

I got it in my spam collector mailbox, as did
news.admin.net-abuse.sightings with the same code. No telling what
list they used, this account's been active over seven years and is
probably on most marketed lists.

When it asks for your PIN, that's a bit strange, but also the
expiration date? Ran as a CC, they'd need the expiration, run as a
debit card, they'd need the PIN, with both as well as your other
information they could just clone the card and do whatever they
wanted.

Like a merchant account's a problem these days, there're lots of
payment processors on the net a legit company could use.

Big, bright red-flag when google turns up nothing on the company.

Pass on it.

"Kenny" <> wrote in message
news:bl6p91$8nuip$...
> Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I haven't
> entered the number or any details.
>
>
>
> "Greetings,
>
> Your email address was entered into our September Microsoft X-Box
> promotional competition
> by yourself or a friend, family member, or associate.
>
> This is a prize draw, you are now the lucky winner of a brand new
Microsoft
> X-Box Gaming Console!
>
> You are now entitled to simply claim your prize online at our website, you
> dont
> have to buy anything, just collect your prize that you have already won.
> There has only been a few winners out of many thousands of submissions,
> so do count yourself lucky!
>
> Please make sure you visit the following link within 72 hours, you have a
> temporary passcode.
> If you do not go to this link within that time your winning shall
> unfortunately be returned to
> the prize pool.
>
> Here is your link!
> http://www.prizebounty.com/cgi-bin/s...9&winner=33095
>
> On the page you will need to enter this pass code number to proceed:
xxxxxxx
> This is very important. Do not lose that number!
> Put in your address, and we will simply mail your X-Box to you.
>
> We hope that you will enjoy your new X-Box gaming console.
>
> Congratulations on winning,
>
> From Microsoft and the PrizeBounty team! "
>
>
> --
>
> Kenny
>
>
>

Here's another red flag:

Domain Name: DESOLATE.COM

Registrant:
Desolate Designs (DESOLATE-DOM)
365 Love Lane
Danville, CA 94526
US


Michael-NC wrote:
>
> Big, bright red-flag when google turns up nothing on the company.
>
> Pass on it.
>
> "Kenny" <> wrote in message
> news:bl6p91$8nuip$...
> > Just received this and am suspicious of it, has anyone else ? I haven't
> > entered the number or any details.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Greetings,
> >
> > Your email address was entered into our September Microsoft X-Box
> > promotional competition
> > by yourself or a friend, family member, or associate.
> >
> > This is a prize draw, you are now the lucky winner of a brand new
> Microsoft
> > X-Box Gaming Console!
> >
> > You are now entitled to simply claim your prize online at our website, you
> > dont
> > have to buy anything, just collect your prize that you have already won.
> > There has only been a few winners out of many thousands of submissions,
> > so do count yourself lucky!
> >
> > Please make sure you visit the following link within 72 hours, you have a
> > temporary passcode.
> > If you do not go to this link within that time your winning shall
> > unfortunately be returned to
> > the prize pool.
> >
> > Here is your link!
> > http://www.prizebounty.com/cgi-bin/s...9&winner=33095
> >
> > On the page you will need to enter this pass code number to proceed:
> xxxxxxx
> > This is very important. Do not lose that number!
> > Put in your address, and we will simply mail your X-Box to you.
> >
> > We hope that you will enjoy your new X-Box gaming console.
> >
> > Congratulations on winning,
> >
> > From Microsoft and the PrizeBounty team! "
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kenny
> >
> >
> >