Opening my email, I see I've won an amazing prize - the brand new Apple Iphone Nokia 8GB! It's allegedly part of the Nokia N'Series New Year Program, and also comes with a cash prize of five hundred thousand pounds.... Oh it's spam? Darn. But isn;t it interesting that viagra is no longer the big draw in email fraud, but phrases like "to promote the use of mobile phones with the world as a global village" are?
Read on in the full article.
This is spam ?
Thank god, with all the viagra mails I've been recieving I was beginning to get paranoid.
I think it is like the reader digest, you never actually win and then end up with a useless part set of encyclopedias in the letters no one ever users while needing to buy the rest at 10 pounds per word over the next 50 years (on home approval).
If you re-read it I don't think you are getting a free iNokia Apple95 NSeries phone, just the cash.
"We are delighted to inform you of your [Cash] prize
and [The] Brand new Apple Iphone Nokia 8GB release on the 25th Jan, 2008"
I really can't see a mobile phone (no matter how smart) being succesfully wired to your bank account. I can just imagine trying to get it out at the Cash Machine or over the counter.
Looks like phishing to me.
There is also another variant, where the sender purports to represent Nokia Multimedia (or Apple or Sony or ..), and tells that the receiver has won a N95 (or whichever is the company's flagship product) and the receiver just needs to claim his/her prize from them. The idea is to flood the said company with such claims, and if any of the victims starts to blame the target company, the better. I just got one such email - and was not a bit surprised when I studied the headers and found out that it really originated from a node with country code 'de' ..
Hi there i just opened my mail and received practicaly the same kind but mine says that i won 500,000 great britains money!!!!! guys its totally a spam!!!!