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Toyota Lottery

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by littleprius, Aug 16, 2006.

  1. littleprius

    littleprius New Member

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    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?
     
    #1 littleprius, Aug 16, 2006
  2. TheForce

    TheForce Stop War! Lets Rave! Make Love!

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(littleprius @ Aug 16 2006, 03:55 PM) [snapback]304255[/snapback]</div>
    Its spam. Just delete.
     
    #2 TheForce, Aug 16, 2006
  3. ohgreys

    ohgreys New Member

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    Delete it.
     
    #3 ohgreys, Aug 16, 2006
  4. excuseMeButt

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    <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
     
    #4 excuseMeButt, Aug 16, 2006
  5. littleprius

    littleprius New Member

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    <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! :rolleyes:
     
    #5 littleprius, Aug 16, 2006
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    I think I SHOULD be paid by Toyota for as much as I promote their product!
     
    #6 seasidetraveler, Aug 16, 2006
  7. Sufferin' Prius Envy

    Sufferin' Prius Envy Platinum Member

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    .yu?
    Yugoslavia? (More precisely Serbia and Montenegro)

    Somehow, I doubt that is Toyota's headquarters for the “International Promotion Program" :rolleyes:

    I doubt this email came from either Toyota or Serbia and Montenegro . . .

    http://www.joewein.net/419/419-toyota-car-promotions.htm
     
    #7 Sufferin' Prius Envy, Aug 16, 2006
  8. littleprius

    littleprius New Member

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    <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:
     
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    #9 GreenSpeed, Aug 16, 2006
  10. rufaro

    rufaro WeePoo, Gen II

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    <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.
     
    #10 rufaro, Aug 16, 2006
  11. hyo silver

    hyo silver Awaaaaay

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    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...
     
    #11 hyo silver, Aug 16, 2006
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