Is this a scam

opy this email and reply to[[email protected]]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 10:13 PM
From:
"Lozada, Richard" <RichardLozada>
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To:
undisclosed-recipients
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Insigma Technology Co.,Ltd
Address: 226 tianmushan Rd Hangzhou,P.R.China
Republic of China
Tel: 0574-65563378
Winners Hotline: (+44)- 704-575-8350
Fax: 0574-63569811
if you must get a response from him;

note;copy this email and reply to[[email protected]]

::::____COMPANY END OF YEAR EMAIL AWARDS____::::
Dear Winner,
We at Insigma Technology global office likes to officially congratulate
you for the draw that was just held by our company which featured you
as the third place winner.
Our company holds promotions each year just to promote our global
publicity and reputations as we plan to exploit more corners of the
world with our highly valued products line.This promotion is just one
of various ways we are presently using to achieve this global vision of ours.
Your email address with MICROS ID ( DVT-00110-WIN-108YR-8XJ ) was
luckily drawn to be this year's third place winner of a Brand New
2007 AUDI A5 car and a cash prize of $580,000 United States Dollars.This money
and gift we believe will enable you make some impact in the society and
possibly invest in our company in the near future.
---------------------------------------------------
Prizes won : AUDI A5 car and $580,000 cash
Your Micros ID is : DVT-00110-WIN-108YR-8XJ
---------------------------------------------------
All you have to do is to contact Dr,Martins Walton who is our claims official in
Europe.. United Kingdom and can understand your english and some european
languages.See details of him below.
Name : Dr,Martins Walton
Email : [email protected]
Address : 31 Marine Road Fct, London. United Kingdom
Phone : (+44)- 704-575-8350
When contacting the claims agent you should include the following
if you must get a response from him;
note;copy this email and reply to[[email protected]]

Full Name: _______ Address: _________
Occupation: ______ Country: _________
Telephone: ________ Fax Number: __________
Sex: _________ Age: _________-
Your Qualification number is: (DVT-00110-WIN-108YR-8XJ)
**************************************************


We know you must be excited,skeptic and very happy about this news you
have just received from us and the truth is that we are doing this to
put smiles into homes and hearts of people worldwide.The only thing you will
need to pay to this company is to kindly place our company logo on the AUDI A5 car
that you have just won for a minimum of 5months.
Special greetings from the entire family of Insigma Technology Worldwide.
Signed,
Mrs, Susan Young (Announcer)
________________________________________________________
*NOTE** Beware of email scam,So only reply to our claim agent which
email : [email protected] direct for more info about your winnings.
Misconduct and non adherence to instructions leads to prize termination


DISCLAIMER Important! This message is intended for the above named person(s) only and is CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail and have received it in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and then delete it from your mailbox. This message may be protected by the attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine. Accessing, copying, disseminating or re-using any of the information contained in this e-mail by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. Finally, you should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses, as the sender accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Thank you.

Hi neno, yes it's a scam, it's a variation on the usual Lotto scams, if you haven't entered it, you haven't won anything,

Along the way, there will be fees to be paid for holding agents, shipping couriers, taxes etc, you will never see the cheque, but you will be a lot poorer as a result.

Delete and ignore, there isn't a single giveaway competition that I have seen on the internet that contacts you out of the blue, and is legitimate.

Mod edit - full quote of post directly above has been removed - SP

Your info clear my mine, i guess i have to continue looking for job,
thanks a lot

Hi Neno, welcome to Scamwarners,

John is completely right it is most definately a scam.

I tried searching on the complete email address and found nothing so I shortened the email address and tried again and found this Click Here it is most likely the same person who also does job scams

The real clincher here is a search on the phone number, Click Here and you will see how many other people have the same number, it is a UK redirect number meaning you could be anywhere in the world (including Africa) and recieve calls on that number, to the untrained eye it appears to be a UK number but we know better.

Good luck with your job search and dont take a job that involves cashing cheques or money orders for a commission

Just taking a quick look through those search results I just found the below email posted at 419eater, you will notice many similarities

NOTE COPY THIS EMAIL AND REPLY { [email protected] }
------------------------------------------
Insigma Technology Co.,Ltd
Address: 226 tianmushan Rd Hangzhou,P.R.China
Republic of China
Tel: 0574-65563378
Winners Hotline: (+44)- 704-575-8350
Fax: 0574-63569811

::::____COMPANY END OF YEAR EMAIL AWARDS____::::

Dear Winner,
We at Insigma Technology global office likes to officially congratulate
you for the draw that was just held by our company which featured you
as the third place winner.
Our company holds promotions each year just to promote our global
publicity and reputations as we plan to exploit more corners of the
world with our highly valued products line.This promotion is just one
of various ways we are presently using to achieve this global vision of ours.
Your email address with MICROS ID ( DVT-00110-WIN-108YR-8XJ ) was
luckily drawn to be this year's third place winner of a Brand New
2007 AUDI A5 car and a cash prize of $580,000 United States Dollars.This money
and gift we believe will enable you make some impact in the society and
possibly invest in our company in the near future.
---------------------------------------------------
Prizes won : AUDI A5 car and $580,000 cash
Your Micros ID is : DVT-00110-WIN-108YR-8XJ
---------------------------------------------------
All you have to so is to contact Dr,Martins Walton who is our claims official
in
Europe.. United Kingdom and can understand your english and some european
languages.See details of him below.
Name : Dr,Martins Walton
Email : [email protected]
Address : 31 Marine Road Fct, London. United Kingdom
Phone : (+44)- 704-575-8350
When contacting the claims agent you should include the following
if you must get a response from him;
Full Name: _______ Address: _________
Occupation: ______ Country: _________
Telephone: ________ Fax Number: __________
Sex: _________ Age: _________-
Your Qualification number is: (DVT-00110-WIN-108YR-8XJ)
**************************************************

We know you must be excited,skeptic and very happy about this news you
have just received from us and the truth is that we are doing this to
put smiles into homes and hearts of people worldwide.The only thing you will
need to pay to this company is to kindly place our company logo on the AUDI A5
car
that you have just won for a minimum of 5months.
Special greetings from the entire family of Insigma Technology Worldwide.
Signed,
Mrs, Susan Young (Announcer)

Another clue is that the email was sent to "Undisclosed Recipients." That means that the sender placed a number of recipients' addresses in the BCC (blind copy) field. Yet the email makes it sound as if you are among the privileged few. It doesn't add up.

^^ Very true, well picked up, I will add that the scammer will usually include one of his own email addresses in the CC field, that is when they accidentally use CC instead of BCC

In addition to everything else, the reply to address is a free e-mail account. A real company would have their own domain and not have an e-mail address like [email protected].