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 Post subject: Facebook Scam or legit?
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:24 am 
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Hi.
Found that today in my inbox at facebook. Please can you help me find out if this is legit?

Facebook Promotion
20 Craven Park , Harlesden
London NW10
United Kingdom

Phone Number: + 44 702 403 77 26
Fax: + 44 702 403 77 26

Ref: BTD/968/09
Batch: 409978E

Write email and send to Mr Morgan Thomas with this email address Below to claim your prize
morganthomasclaim@hotmail.nl

Your Profile email address won 500,000.00 Britain Pounds, from Facebook Award Team. Ticket No. 008795727498, Serial No.BTD/9080648302/06,Drew Lucky No.
14-21-25-39-40-47(20).

To file for your claim contact.

Mr. Morgan Thomas
Email:morganthomasclaim@hotmail.nl
Tel: + 44 702 403 77 26


The prestigious Facebook has set out and successfully organized a Sweepstakes marking 2011 anniversary we rolled out over £500.000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) for our End of year Anniversary Draws.


Participants for the draws were randomly selected and drawn from a wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.

The selection was made through a computer draw system attaching personalized Profile email addresses to ticket numbers. If you ignore this, you will regret it later.

Facebook are now the largest Internet companies Site and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Facebook running an e-mail beta test.

Your Profile Email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number 008795727498 with serial numbers BTD/9080648302/06 and drew the lucky, numbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds) as one of the 10 jackpot winners in this draw.

You have therefore won the entire winning sum of £500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pounds).

The draws registered as Draw number one was conducted in Brockley, London United Kingdom 2011.

These Draws are commemorative and as such special.

Kindly write email and send to This email address below to Claim Your Prize.
morganthomasclaim@hotmail.nl

Sincerely,
Dr. Larry Jones
Facebook Promo

So i sent an E-mail as asked. That was the response:

Dear Winner,

Before your funds can be approved for transfer to your local bank account, the Accounts Department immediately needs you to choose between the options of funds reception as it is stated below.

MODE OF FUNDS RECEPTION
1. Bank to bank Transfer: Which requires the below details:
*Bank Name:
*Bank Address:
*Bank Account number:
*Account Name:
Scan Copy of Your international Passport
*Your Telephone and Fax numbers:

2. Courier Delivery: Which requires the below details:
*Amount Won:
*Draw Code No:
*Reference No:
*Country:
*Residential/Mailing address:
Scan Copy of Your international Passport:
*Your Telephone and Fax numbers:

With the Power vested in me as the legal adviser to the Face book Award Team through the Central High Court of London and the National Regulatory Commission here in the United Kingdom,l hereby certified that winner eligible to receive the funds as the bonafied winner of this award.So you are hereby approved for transfer. You have to Chose one from the two Method Above

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed before the end of this program; any breach of confidentiality on the part of the winner will result to disqualification.

Congratulations, once again.
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Morgan Thomas
Tel: + 44 702 403 7726

Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and contains confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
C 2011 Face book Award Corporation. All rights reserved

Whats your opinion on that?

Thanks for your help

Mike


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook Scam or legit?
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:33 pm 
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That's definately a scam... I would report that to Facebook.


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