Gala sweepstake winner NOT!!!

mann

I was just wondering how many others on here got a similar text message as I received today - it went as follows,

Nokia Celebrates 40 years, CONgrats!your Mobile Number just won 900.000 GBP in our ongoing promotional sweepstake, for claim email: allenrich@gala.net from 08686**34*,


How nice of them to offer money to a complete stranger

Daegerty

mann wrote: »

I was just wondering how many others on here got a similar text message as I received today - it went as follows,

Nokia Celebrates 40 years, CONgrats!your Mobile Number just won 900.000 GBP in our ongoing promotional sweepstake, for claim email: allenrich@gala.net from 08686**34*,


How nice of them to offer money to a complete stranger

I text him just there and asked for the money, see what he comes up with

BluesBerry

am David Hamal,an attorney at law. A deceased client of
mine,that shares the same last name as yours, died as the
result of a heart-related condition on March 12th 2005.

His heart condition was due to the death of all the members of his
family in the tsunami disaster on the 26th December2004 in
Sumatra Indonesia.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

I contacted you to assist in distributing the money left behind by late client.

I can be reached on for more information.{info.office.law.chambers10@gmail.com}

My late Client has a deposit of seventeen point five Million Dollars ( US$17.5
Million Dollars) left behind.


Best regards,
Barr.David Hamal

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

Ricardo G

Show me da monies !!!!

G_R

BluesBerry wrote: »

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

He quoted wiki and he has a gmail account.

must be legit

mann

Daegerty wrote: »

I text him just there and asked for the money, see what he comes up with

Very good... I hope you enjoy my winnings, dont you think its a bit iffy to let them know your number is live... they might pester you for the rest of your life

BluesBerry wrote: »

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:

That sounds good man

scarifier

total scam DO NOT REPLY similar scam being ran in the states but instead of Nokia sweepstake it is supposedly a Facebook sweepstake.Funnily enough the name to claim off in the states was an Allen Richardson Email: allenrich@gala.net .This guy must have given away hundreds of millions in pounds and dollars

mann

Daegerty wrote: »

I text him just there and asked for the money, see what he comes up with

Did you really text that number ?

scarifier wrote: »

total scam DO NOT REPLY similar scam being ran in the states but instead of Nokia sweepstake it is supposedly a Facebook sweepstake.Funnily enough the name to claim off in the states was an Allen Richardson Email: allenrich@gala.net .This guy must have given away hundreds of millions in pounds and dollars

Hi Scarifier,

Thanks for the warning but I wouldn’t dream of contacting them… but having said that - I have to add that I got to thinking it may be one of my mates having a laugh so I very nearly sent him/her a reply saying they missed “April fools day” by 4 days,

But then I decided to check to see if I could find any info on this fella and sure enough I found a site called “whocallsme” or something like that… there was loads of people that had the same message so I started to think that they must fool a lot of people into giving them money or else they wouldn’t bother going to all the trouble,

Daegerty

mann wrote: »

Did you really text that number ?

yes. i have unlimited texts, got a delivery report but no reply

biko

http://www.419scam.org/419-gala-net.htm

Btw, number obfuscated as probably fake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tv8LSMVVi8

Das Kitty

Daegerty wrote: »

yes. i have unlimited texts, got a delivery report but no reply

You know you have now confirmed that your number is an active one and you're probably going to get loads more spam texts now, right?

Dayo93

Got that text today tried text back with some unpleasant language but would not send, funny I also gota text today from someone who wants me to take care of 24 million dollars for them email was andrewchan@iprimus.com.au

jayjay23

Dayo93 wrote: »

Got that text today tried text back with some unpleasant language but would not send, funny I also gota text today from someone who wants me to take care of 24 million dollars for them email was andrewchan@iprimus.com.au

I got the same one, where would they have gotten my number?

stovelid

Spam mails and texts offering prizes? Whatever will they think of next?

What we need is a protracted anecdote about spamming the spammer.