Staying Away From Scams And Protecting Your Privacy
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Almost all of us receive scam emails almost all the time . You could also receive such messages via SMS on your phone . I got one yesterday and i had thought of doing a small google search on this message to see what info is available regarding this on the internet and i must say i was really shocked to see the results.

I was expecting to see websites which warn users to stay away from such messages and not go ahead and deal with it . But instead i saw websites where people are asking each other how to go ahead and deal with the message. Now the message i got was

Your Mobile No have been selected for Yahoo Msn Draw in Uk, Prize of 1,000,000 GBP , For Details contact Dr David via Email : davidmoore247@hotmail.com

When i did a search on this text . THe results i got directed me to these links

1)http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/mobile-drawlivecom-c159993.html#comment
2)http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/ad-demo-c216759.html#comment

Now these are similar scam messages . But surprisingly if you go through the whole link , a LOT of people are actually enquiring as to how he/she could claim the prize money . In the mean time , they are disclosing personal information like telephone number , address. etc...
Here are some of the comments from those pages

1)I recieved a message from AD-DEMO that I have won 250, 000 POUNDS in 2009 DEMO(SHELL) int'l mobile draw.i send my details to DR.JOHN via E-Mail:nwtbk live.com but message cannot be sent.So what i haveto do now?PLEASE REPLY.
THANK YOU!

2)i hav also got d same msg 4m AD-DEMO on my idea mobile on 30th july, tht i hav won d prize of 500, 000 GBP in last batch of google 10th anniversary awards. i was told to claim my prize n send email to wingoogle009@live.com and wingoogle20092009@hotmail.com and i also searched 4 same web sites but i yet not get any result. there are no any websites of such name.plz sir tell me what should i do now.
my mobile no. 99212xxxx.

3)I GOT 500, 000.000$ MONEY IN MOBILEDRAW @LIVE.COM AND SAID TO CLAIM MONEY FROM DR.Mark BUT I CANNOT CONTACT HIM.

So a lot of people are actually believing this crap and are getting into big trouble as the other party would end up taking money from you saying "transaction charges" .

So if you receive such messages please do stay away from them and not get into any trouble.If possible tell others too about this and ensure that they do not reply to such messages especially with personal information..
Also do read this article on the most common messages which are floating around which is a complete scam

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3 comments

Unknown said... @ July 14, 2010 at 10:20 AM

Hi Prash,

A long time since we spoke and l commented on your site - are you well and working hard, as usual ? Anyway l tried this many times and can if you want to enlarge the post send you many messages received by me from people trying to scam me from banks, people who say they are dying and get this one people that want me to act as a relative of a dead person and then share usually 60/40% in their favour all the monies in secured accounts. Reckon we should let more people know ?

Narasimhan Rajagopal said... @ July 25, 2010 at 8:26 AM
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Narasimhan Rajagopal said... @ July 25, 2010 at 8:29 AM

I don't get many scam messages as sms(except ads). But i get at least 10 messages a day in gmail and thankfully all arrive in the spam folder(which I never even bother). I have a yahoo account(rarely used). So till last month no spam mails in yahoo. But of late for the past 2 weeks i get 5 scam mails(act as a relative of deceased and claim bank balance, marry some princess and become king, microsoft lottery, yahoo lottery) and all of them arrive in my inbox. Its very irritating that yahoo doesn't filter it as spam. Till now not a single mail has arrived in spam folder(I checked options spam guard is active). I have to manually move them. Is there a way to enhance yahoo spam filter. Each mail arrives from a different sender so blocking them is not an option. Some grammatical errors in my previous post, so removed it.

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