TOYOTA INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION (HEADQUARTERS) Customer Service Department Affiliate of Toyota Japan . #28 Kanashiwa road Tokyo JP We are pleased to inform you of the announcement made today, You are among the winners of the TOYOTA CAR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM Participants were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from 2,500,000 email addresses of individuals and companies from all part of the world as part of our electronic business Promotions Program. As a result of your visiting various websites we are running the e-business promotions for. You/Your Company email address, attached to ticket number 896-781-6767, with serial number 374-18 drew the lucky numbers 2,5,9,22,31,33 and Bonus number 10, Your INSURANCE Number: FLs433/ 453L /GMSA and consequently you won in the Second Category of the TOYOTA FORTUNE PROMOTION DRAW. You have therefore been approved for the payment of the sum of US$500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in cash, including a Toyota car which=2 0is the winning present /amount for the Second category winners. This is from the total prize money of US$2,650,000.00 shared among the international winners in the Second category. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Please be informed that your won fund of the sum of US$500,000.00 is now with the payee center. Contact your agent and give them y our full names so that they will re-insure your winning under your full names. Together with the port where your winning car should be ship to. To begin your claim, please call your claim agent or send email immediately to: NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, Please quote your 1. Full name: 2. Address / contact number: 3. Occupation: 4. Age: 5. Sex: 6. Nationality: 7. Email: Send above information in your correspondences with your claims agent. Congratulations once again from all our staffs and thank you for being part of our promotions program. Sincerely , DR. TINA ZHU Tel:+86 13113328043 Email: [email protected] :smash::second:
Wow. I had no idea Toyota couldn't afford an e-mail account for it's employees and they must rely on YAHOO for their e-mail.
What we need is some worldwide agency with enough police power to hold these scammers accountable for the winning amounts to all the "winners" they mail. If they say you've won half a million, they have to pay you half a million, enforceable using mail fraud rules (Pub Clearing House for example in its paper mailings never says you "won" only that you MAY have won to avoid prosecution for mail fraud (albeit the words "may have" are in small font and the word "won" is in 400 point boldface)). Something like this is going to happen soon because the world is choking to death on this stuff jammed up in our e-mail inboxes.
My favorite site: Scamorama. Too bad the Lads from Lagos didn't copyright their fraud, or they could sue everyone that's copying them....Even Ms. Zhu who is probably Chinese, not Nigerian or Japanese.
Duh, it is not a scam, you have to give them your checking account number so they can deposite the check. Everybody misses that point.
I'd email Ms Zhu back and tell her that as a sign of good faith, you need her to send you a check for $1000.00 to be sent to the western union office nearest your location. My favorite site for getting even with scammers is: Welcome to the 419 Eater
