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Question

I have received an email. The first few lines are as follows:

Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on the 17the August, 2006 by the Pepsi World Promotion, your email was among the 16 Lucky winners who won Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds Sterlings each on the pepsi company promotion.
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However, you will have to fill the form below and send it to the Promotion manager of The Pepsi Company for verification and then you will be directed on how you can claim your winnin funds.

Name, Age, Sex, Address, Email, Phone, Occupation, company, Next of Kin, Zip code, State, Country and nationality.

.....The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 250,000 email address drawn from all the continents of the world. This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by The international Association of Gaming Regulators(IAGR).

...I have never emailled to the Pepsi Company.

Answer 1

I'd be wary of this one...please contact the Pepsi Corporation direct, to verify the offer's validity. Chances are you are the victim of a spam artist who wants some of your information to possibly steal your identity. Of course, if Pepsi says you are indeed a winner, that would be great! Unfortunately, if things smell rotten, they're usually rotten! Good luck!

Answer 2

don't do that, too much stealing identities going on. spam it. try not to open e-mails that promise something for nothing. you may even be tricked by the law this way. for being a dead beat dad or on the wanted list for whatever reason. the promotion manager of pepsi, five hundred thousand great brit. #'s! what? no way. let me help you i have some land in st.bernard louisiana, no i do, i lived there and i loved it, but kat.5 took it away, now you wouldn't be interested in it would you, i hope not, it's not up for sale. just making a point, anyway my property is water front property now, i think i'll hang on to it. in other words, no deal,squeal!!!

Answer 3

This is nothing but a spam mail. I get lots of them from Pepsi, Microsoft, etc. The best thing you can do is simply delete it. Don’t even think about answering. If you are in a doubt, contact Pepsi Company and ask for more details.

Answer 4

your email was among the 16 Lucky winners

First of all did you send an email to pepsi?

If you didn't then its a fake, Yes? Did pepsi run a world promotion? I have not heard of one.

Answer 5

That's what we call spam... and a way to get your identity stolen.

Or at least get robbed of a few thousand, if not more, dollars.

Please be one of the smart people and delete all messages like this one and many others. E-mails don't ask for your information when they are real.

Answer 6

I think it is a scam. Contact Pepsi by telephone.

Answer 7

Try to call to Pepsy Company before you send your details, to see if the mail is valid. If it is.... Bravo!!!!

Answer 8

There is no two way about this, but a scam. if you reply to this email, latter you will be asked to send your banking informations, this is where the target it, this men of the underworld actually want to use your account details for fraud. so please beware.

Answer 9

Check the email for any form of authentification. Did you enter this competition? If you didn't then ignore it.

Answer 10

You are smart enough to put this here.... surely it's a scam....