I just got an email from "Toyota International Promotion Program" (email address [email protected]) notifying me that I am one of the winners in the "Toyota Fortune Lotto Draw" and have won $15,000,000.00 and a new Toyota car. I am suppose to respond with my name, address, country of origin, age, occupation, and telephone number together with my "lucky drawn number" contained in the email. I don't remember entering any lottery. Any ideas about this "lottery" winning notice and what I should do?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(littleprius @ Aug 16 2006, 03:55 PM) [snapback]304255[/snapback]</div> Its spam. Just delete.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(littleprius @ Aug 16 2006, 03:55 PM) [snapback]304255[/snapback]</div> Ignore it. You didn't win anything except, potentially, a hard time. Next thing they will ask for is a check for $10,000 to pay the lawyers fees to transfer the money or car. ~E
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(excuseMeButt @ Aug 16 2006, 03:02 PM) [snapback]304259[/snapback]</div> I added to "Junk Mail" file and then deleted email, removing sender from forwarding any more email to me. Thanks for the advice and help!
.yu? Yugoslavia? (More precisely Serbia and Montenegro) Somehow, I doubt that is Toyota's headquarters for the “International Promotion Program" I doubt this email came from either Toyota or Serbia and Montenegro . . . http://www.joewein.net/419/419-toyota-car-promotions.htm
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Aug 16 2006, 03:31 PM) [snapback]304275[/snapback]</div> It now appears it came from some characters in Nigeria...even though they used a Japanese street address. I guess I should have been tipped off by the errors in grammar and punctuation! :blink:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(littleprius @ Aug 16 2006, 01:50 PM) [snapback]304288[/snapback]</div> A word of advice...just DELETE EVERY SINGLE EMAIL you get offering you money. PERIOD. At work, one of the mailboxes for which I am responsible starts with "info@" Do you have ANY idea how much spam that kind of email generates? :blink: I get a couple of thousand...THOUSAND...spams a week, a LARGE number of which say I have won all kinds of lotteries...and which ask me to verify my PayPal account details (which is NOT linked to that email address)...and offering me a new mortgage so I can afford to buy viagra for my enlargable penis. They are ALL of equal value, that is to say, exactly none. I discovered how to block not just individual senders, but entire domains from that box, and hundreds of bogus offers still slip through. I HATE having to spend so much time trying to block those s**ts from clogging up my life. To restate, if it seems too good to be true, it is.
Hey, check out the specs on the car you turned down. It's a 'new' 2005 Toyota Prius 2.0i with a 1973cc motor and a five speed manual transmission, getting 29.1 mpg and putting out 145bhp. Hmm...
