If you get an email telling that you are awarded for your lucky email address don't really on that because it is nothing but the full pack of lie. Don't waste your time in replying these mails because sooner or later you will be asked to pay a advance fee for processing of documents or handling charge. If you pay you will loose your money simply and gain nothing.
No company in world is sitting to spend this much of huge money on silly email address without any reason. This can be done only by scammer/criminal sitting behind it who having lots of spare time to do so.
The spread of e-mail and easy access to e-mail-harvesting software significantly lowered the cost of sending scam letters by using the Internet so the scammers has now adopted this channel. Daily thousand of emails are sent to people all over the world and criminals spending lots of their time in these activities. Whilst the vast majority of recipients do not respond to these e-mails, a very small percentage do, ultimetly they lose their own money in lieu get nothing. For more information read the other scam emails given on this blog.
We can't stop the fraud, but we can have some fun, and make the criminals use their time in vain.
I also got such mail from scammer telling the fake story of £750,000.00 Pounds by Toyota Award Company. The email of scammer and my reply is shown below on this page. Keep reading the mails and enjoy it...
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From Toyota Award <louisaw@bellsouth.net>
Date Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Subject The Sum Of £750,000.00 Pounds
The Sum Of £750,000.00 Pounds has been awarded to your EMAIL Address in our British Toyota Award Program. Do get back to this office with your info such as
1.Name...................
2.Country................
3.Age....................
4.Sex...................
5.Occupation.............
6.Phone/Fax.............
My reply:-
Date Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Subject How to claim £750,000.00 Pounds of TOYOTA PROMO
thanx for selecting me for your £750.000.00 Pounds of TOYOTA PROMO.
i am very much exited, so please tell me how do i will get that money.
i am forwarding you my personal details.
1.Full Name:...........Param Singh
2.Full Address:........HN-523, Chaman Road, Nehru Place, New Delhi - 110011
3.Occupation:..........Self employed
4.Phone Number:.......+91-9330813676
Param
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From TOYOTA AWARD COMPANY<ukss.agt009@gmail.com>
Date Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Subjet Contact The Payment Bank immediately
Dear Lucky Winner,
Congratulations on emerging as one of our award winners. Toyota Award Company offers awards to Lucky owners of selected emails that came out in our Random Draws. You have therefore been approved to go ahead and claim your funds which amounts to £750,000.00 (Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling).
To get your funds to you, we have processed your claims and the winning amount has been transfered to our payment bank for immediate transfer to your account or delivered to your house address.
Do contact our payment bank responsible for the transfer of your funds to you. Contact them with this information given below.
Bank Name: CITI BANK PLC
Contact Person: MR MATHEW JONES
Direct Tel: +44 703 597 0591
Email : citi-bnk-plc2@hotmail.co.uk
You are to contact them with the Winning code: Serial Number M7-4038-581 Along with your full information.
(1) FULL NAME
(2) FULL ADDRESS
(3) NATIONALITY
(4) DATE OF BIRTH
(5) OCCUPATION
(6) TELEPHONE NUMBER
(7) SEX
Thank you and once again, Congratulations!!!
Bryan Steve
Customer Care Officer.
My reply:-
To citi-bnk-plc2@hotmail.co.uk
To citi-bnk-plc2@hotmail.co.uk
Date Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Subject My winning code is M7-4038-581
I have won Toyota Award Company offers awards of £750,000.00
(Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling).
I have told by Bryan Steve [Customer Care Officer] to contact
you for claiming my fund.
My winning code is M7-4038-581 and full information is as below:
1) FULL NAME ------------------- Param Singh
(2) FULL ADDRESS -------------- HN-523, Chaman Road, Nehru Place,
New Delhi - 110011
(3) NATIONALITY ----------------- Indian
(4) DATE OF BIRTH -------------- 01-01-1980
(5) OCCUPATION ----------------- Self Employed
(6) TELEPHONE NUMBER --------- +91 9330813676
(7) SEX ---------------------------- Male
This is for your information and necessary action.
Thanx
Param Singh
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From Citi Bank Plc <citi-bnk-plc2@hotmail.co.uk>
Date Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Subject You are welcome to Citi Bank Plc **CHOOSE A SUITABLE OPTION**
CITI BANK PLC
Citi National House,
2 Triton Square, Regent's Place,
Surrey, KT138UA, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 703 597 0591
Fax: +44 800 731 4814
You are welcome to CITI BANK PLC. The payment Bank for Toyota Award Company. We are pleased to be at your services. We are Regulated and Stipulated by the Financial Service Authority (FSA).
After receiving confirmation from the United Kingdom Toyota Award Office that you are one of the AWARD WINNER, we are presenting you with the following options with which you would prefare to receive your Award funds of £750,000.00 (Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling) in our possession. You are to make your preferred and affordable choice from the options listed below for us to remit your funds to you in your country.
CITI BANK PLC OPTIONS
FIRST OPTION
NEW ACCOUNT SETUP:
You will have to open a new Bank account with this bank (CITI BANK PLC) and it will be registered for International Transfer and note that you can make transfer online which will take 24hours to get the local account in your country. After the Opening of an account, an account will be openned in your name and the Account Number and Pin Number will be forwarded to you to enable you have internet access into your online account via our official website.
Account Opening Fee:.................£10
V.A.T:......................................£50
Bank commission:........................£40
Insurance:.................................£50
TOTAL:......................................£150
SECOND OPTION
Dispatch Of An ATM CARD: You shall receive an ATM CARD which your award prize money has already been credited into. This ATM CARD can be used to withdraw money in any ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is (£50,000) Fifty Thousand Pounds transaction daily. The ATM CARD will be delivered to you via our affiliate courier delivery agent to your destinated house address.
Max Delivery Duration....................................24Hrs
Mailing/freight cost .......................................£30
Handling Fee..................................................£40
Insurance......................................................£50
Vat................................................................£40
TOTAL...........................................................£160
THIRD OPTION
BANK TO BANK TRANSFER: The Direct Bank Transfer will enable you receive your money in any account that you shall provide for this Bank to effect the transfer of your funds as it is always done electronically and it will take 3 WORKING DAYS to reflect in the account that you shall provide.
Bank Commission:...........£20
V.A.T:............................£60
Insurance:.....................£100
TOTAL:..........................£180
Respond to this email by making selection from the above options and also you are adviced to send us the scanned copy of your Driver's Licence, international passport (photo page) or any other legally identifying document for proof of identity.
So if you are ready to make the payment for any of the OPTIONS above, you are expected to notify this office with the specific option so that we can provide you with the payment details.
Your urgent reply will be most welcome.
We look forward to serving you better.
Best Regards,
Mr. Mathew Jones
Managing Director/Chief Accountant
For: Citi Bank Plc.
Copyright © 2009. CITI BANK PLC All rights reserved.
My reply:-
To Citi Bank Plc <citi-bnk-plc2@hotmail.co.uk>
Date Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Subject I LIKE THIRD OPTION: BANK TO BANK TRANSFER
i would like to select your THIRD OPTION: BANK TO BANK TRANSFER.
The fee money £180 for BANK TO BANK TRANSFER may be remitted from my
Award Money.
Pls. intimate me back when should i send my scanned copy of
identification proof certificate.
Thanx
Param
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From Citi Bank Plc <citi-bnk-plc2@hotmail.co.uk>
Date Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Subject PAYMENT MOTIVE (READ CAREFULLY)
CITI BANK PLC
Citi National House,
2 Triton Square, Regent's Place,
Surrey, KT138UA, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 703 597 0591
Fax: +44 800 731 4814
I am in reciept of your last mail. For two reasons we cannot deduct from your prize as suggested. The reasons are:
1) A cheque has already been Issued in your favour by the Toyota Award Payment Office. The amount on this cheque is the full value of your Prize-money. We are thus unable to deduct any fee from your cheque.
2) Due to very strict policies laid down by the British Lottery Affairs Commission, we are unable to process the transfer of your winning pakcage by deducting from your prize money. These policies have been put in place to check previously experienced mishandling and/or misappropriation of winners funds, we are obligated to act in line with these policies.
It is very important that we receive the fee prior to the transfer of your winning fund, as part of the fee will be used to cover the necessary charges, also included in the fee is the cost to cover insurance of documents that will be sent to you via courier.
Considering that we cannot process your prize money without payment of the required charges of any of the options, I advise that you arrange for the funds to be transferred as earlier instructed. If you can not come up with this payment, your claims will be cancelled and your funds remmitted to the Toyota Award Payment Office as unclaimed.
You are hereby advice to get back to us if you are ready to make payment.
Awaiting your response.
Best Regards,
Mr. Mathew Jones
Managing Director/Chief Accountant
For: Citi Bank Plc.
Copyright © 2009. CITI BANK PLC All rights reserved.
My reply:-
To Citi Bank Plc <citi-bnk-plc2@hotmail.co.uk>
Date Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Subjet Re: PAYMENT MOTIVE (READ CAREFULLY)
Award is sole will and wish of the giving body, it can't be claimed.
This is first time I have seen that for taking any award fee is required.
I don't know why, ' Toyota Award Payment Office has £750.000.00
Pounds to pay the award but it doesn't has £180 to pay processing fee'
it is amazing.
param
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From Citi Bank Plc <citi-bnk-plc2@hotmail.co.uk>
Date Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Subject FROM THE DESK OF THE ACCOUNT OFFICER
CITI BANK PLC
Citi National House,
2 Triton Square, Regent's Place,
Surrey, KT138UA, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 703 597 0591
Fax: +44 800 731 4814
You are welcome to CITI BANK PLC. The payment Bank for Toyota Award Company. We are pleased to be at your services. We are Regulated and Stipulated by the Financial Service Authority (FSA).
This office just recieve your email and the content was well read and noted.I have attached to this email your winning certificate as you are advice to go ahead and make the payment for the option choosed by you and i will advice you that you should take out away from your mind for you are in the right place, so there is know way we can deductn from your winning funds becouse your winning funds we be giving to you in full,
We look forward to serving you better.
Best Regards,
Mr. Mathew Jones
Managing Director/Chief Accountant
For: Citi Bank Plc.
Copyright © 2009. CITI BANK PLC All rights reserved.
Toyota Fake Award Certificate
My reply:-
To Citi Bank Plc <citi-bnk-plc2@hotmail.co.uk>
Date Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Subject WANT YOUR FSA FIRM REFERENCE NUMBER
Your CITI BANK PLC Regulated and Stipulated by the Financial Service
Authority (FSA) (as stated earlier).
I want to know your Firm reference number of FSA
Register before doing any transaction with you.
Param
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The FSA Register has information on all authorised firms currently doing business in the UK. The Register includes firms that are UK-authorised as well as those authorised in another European Economic Area (EEA) state that also conduct business in the UK.Read more>>
After sending above mail and asking his firm REFERENCE NUMBER of FSA, the scammer has discontinued his email.
11 comments :
Bravo, I may have been born at night but like you sir not last night.To many red flags. I'm not computer savvy so I got someone who is I'm running Mr.Scammer around the block a time or two.
Hello! To my email from you about the Toyota Award Winning is you. I sent my specifications but did not get no response. I'm on the list of winners? Can help.
Friends toyota award company is fake, don't rely of them.
Thanks for putting your experience up here. I have just received such an email and assumed it was fake and malicious, and this has confirmed it. They're still up to it!
woah gracias my brother thanks alot for helping me to solve that kind of scam...
but someone sent money? and interesting what they have written in the last email
Oh mine was even more amusing! The hacker couldn't make it more obvious this was a scam! I couldn't believe he'd be so demanding and stupid:
(No Subject)
From: Toyota Award Office (tom-coffey@sbcglobal.net)
Sent: 26 March 2010 21:13:40
You were Awarded 750,000 Pounds in the British Toyota promo
NAME
ADDRESS
That was literally it and I couldn't help but give a short and sweet reply:
Sure my infidel friend,
Hue Gass at 69 Anal Passage, Fuckham, UK, Mars
Your superior smart man,
Hue x
This is such a huge scam...I'm still in the middle of receiving e-mails from this scammer lol i actually called the number they game me and it was a mobile number...i asked if this was a joke n he said "joke?..yes" and i said yes i thought so. I then Went on the CITIbank official website and found a proper number, called them and asked if they knew anything about it and they said no. I then told the scammer this but they continued to e-mail....what an IDIOT!!I wasnt born yesterday....please, please, please dont fall for this
Tash x
Dear Sirs,
Unfortunately, about 5 years ago I have recived an email from citibank that informed me I have aworded $820000 . I sent emails and sent my information but fortunately tonight I found these message from your side.
Thanks so much for your information
Best Regards,
Marzieh Taheri Hanjani
Graduated M.A master
Tehran/ IRAN
AM opio lawrence from uganda border tanzania i got a massage on 26/3/2018 on my phone that have won $350,000 dollar from Toyota center UK.so i sent my claim on this mail (toyoukdraw@toke.com).After two days of sending the mail, i got the reply with the token pin,attached no.and the space to fill in my information.then i reply to them my detail then it took two week without reply.the third week they wrote to me to sent my information to TOYOTA south Africa for the process of releasing my winning price.then again south Africa office also reply to me that i should sent my detail to ABSA B bank south then I had to sent my detail to the bank.the bank again as reply to me that i should inform my claim agent from toyota centre UK (Rev.paul Moorson)to secure the award certificate in order for the bank to start processing the release of the fund.so on 4/4/18 i got the mail from the claim agent bearing the certificate of tech award from Toyota center UK and he as inform me to organised $550 for the clearing of my diplomat up arrival at our country custom.so is it real on scam because am yet to wait for this diplomat reach at our custom country.
opio Lawrence
And me was tell in 2018 that I have winn for Toyota award but I don't if is true or fake news some one can tell deeply about that won
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