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I received a cash prize spam allegedly from you. Should I forward it to your fraud department?

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I received the following e-mail:

Your E-mail Address has won (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds only) GBP750,000 in the Mozilla Firefox Online promo. To claim the prize, contact us back for confirmation at: claimsunit2011@inMail.sk Congratulations Grace Blue {Miss} Coordinator, Mozilla firefox Inc.

I suspect this is a scam of some sort. Banks have fraud departments that they ask recipients to forward this type of e-mail to. Do you have the same type of policy?

I received the following e-mail: Your E-mail Address has won (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds only) GBP750,000 in the Mozilla Firefox Online promo. To claim the prize, contact us back for confirmation at: claimsunit2011@inMail.sk Congratulations Grace Blue {Miss} Coordinator, Mozilla firefox Inc. I suspect this is a scam of some sort. Banks have fraud departments that they ask recipients to forward this type of e-mail to. Do you have the same type of policy?

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Please report misuse of the Firefox trademark in websites using the Mozilla's Violating Website Report page and in emails by forwarding them to Mozilla's abuse email.

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Well that's TWO winners. I've just received that same message and not clicked the link. It must be a new scam? Hope it's not though, I could do with a long holiday.

Ændret af ballyhoo den

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I received the same message too.

At first this is what i received:

REF: REWARD.

Sir/Madam,

Your E-mail Address has won (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds only) GBP750,000 in the Mozilla Firefox Online promo recently conducted. To claim the prize, contact us back for confirmation at: mozrewards2011@inMail.sk

Congratulations!

Yours faithfully,

Mozilla Firefox Online promo

_________

Then after 3 hours, someone sent me another email regarding the same message..


File Ref: ILP/HW 47509/11 Batch: 7056490902/188 Winning No: GB8701/MFOP Amount: GBP750,000.00



RE: MORE INFORMATION OF YOUR WINNING



Dear Sir,


We write to confirm your prize as released by Mozilla Corporation on its recently concluded Mozilla Online Promo. This program is the first ever online Draw to reward users of our various products. Once you have used any Mozilla in your computer or mobile on the internet, you have stand the chance of being a winner and this promo will be conducted every year as approve by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation.


The programme is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their email address as obtained from our Database. Your E-mail was attached to Batch number: 7056490902/188, which consequently won the E-mail draw in the category “A” while winner of Category B & C was also record with the prizes. We hereby approved your winning valued GBP750,000.00 pounds (SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/11


All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from our Database stored Mozilla Firefox and other Mozilla products user from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions. (If you used or received message via any of our product) This promotion was sponsored by Mozilla Corporation & Mozilla Foundation as part of our social responsibility and appreciation of users of our product and services.


For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. This instruction is very important to avoid cancellation of your winning.


Note,

All winnings MUST be claimed within 7 days of this notification otherwise all funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity organizations. Congratulations once again on your winning.



WINNER APPLICATION FORM OF PAYMENT.


THIS FORM WILL ENABLE US HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRIZE WINNER. FILL IT AND RETURN BACK PLEASE.


FULL NAME:

COMPLETE ADDRESS:

DATE OF BIRTH/ AGE:

SEX:

NATIONALITY:

OCCUPATION:

TELEPHONE NUMBER:

MOBILE/ CELL NUMBER:

WINNER’S EMAIL ADDRESS:

DATE:


THE REQUIRED DETAILS ABOVE IS TO ENABLE US ISSUE PAYMENT INSTRUCTION FOR THE RELEASE AND TRANSFER THE FUND TO BASED ON THE PAYMENT OPTION AS APPROVED BY MOZILLA CORPORATIONS.


YOURS TRULY,




Philip Watson, Director, Mozilla Corporation Registered office: Elstree Way Borehamwood,

Hertfordshire WD6 1RN - United Kingdom Tel: +44 7024078750



  • Our Projects

Mozilla Applications Mozilla Drumbeat Projects Mozilla Labs Experiments Mozilla Developer Tools Mozilla-based Applications Mozilla Technologies Archived Projects

The Mozilla Corporation Lottery Team

___________________

Is this just scam???

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Yes it's fake. Do not respond to them.

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Just want to make a correction. I don not received cash prize from the scam, instead an e-mail notify me that I won just what others received.

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To the management of Mozilla Firefox,

Please resolve this kind of problem. Please let your users be enlighten regarding this matter if it just a scam.

Thank you

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Hi, this is a copy of a email I received....... But the problem i have is that FIREFOX DOES NOT HAVE AN ABUSE SECTION TO REPORT ALL ABUSE. They should have a report all abuse as abuse can come in many ways and fashion!!!!!

   YOU ARE A FIREFOX PROMO WINNER REPLY IMMEDIATELY‏

16/09/2011 Reply ▼

MOZILLA FIREFOX

Add to contacts From: MOZILLA FIREFOX (mrsoliviabay@gmail.com) Sent: 16 September 2011 19:39:07 To: Microsoft SmartScreen marked this message as junk and we'll delete it after ten days. Wait, it's safe!

Sir/Madam, Your E-mail Address has won (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds only) GBP750,000 in the Mozilla

Firefox Online promo recently conducted. To claim the prize, contact us back for confirmation at:

mozillafire@yahoo.cn Congratulations! Yours faithfully, Mrs Olivia Bay For: Mozilla Firefox Online Promo Team

Ændret af darren den

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darren, this was a hoax as it was not sent by Mozilla.

See http://blog.gerv.net/2011/08/hoax_mozilla_firefox_online_promo/ as it was a earlier scam attempt.

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i have received the same promotion spam:Your E-mail Address has won (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds only) GBP750,000 in the Mozilla Firefox Online promo. To claim the prize, contact us back for confirmation at:mozillaclaim@inMail24.com

Congratulations


Grace Blue {Miss} Coordinator, Mozilla Firefox Inc.

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I received the same message, only the prize is in $$$ Congratulations!!

Your email address has won you the sum of US$1,200.000.00 in the current Mozilla Firefox Online promo. To claim your prize. Contact our paying officer immediately for confirmation: Mr. Dean Johnson, Email; djohnson101@blumail.org. Once more Congratulations!!

Coordinator, Mozilla Firefox Inc.

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As a complementary Info I got the same message + I include the full Header of the sender

From Mozilla Firefox Thu Feb 2 20:46:20 2012 X-Apparently-To: xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.co.id via 106.10.144.110; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:38:29 -0800 Return-Path: <sales@retajhotels.com> Received-SPF: none (domain of retajhotels.com does not designate permitted sender hosts)

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X-Originating-IP: [91.147.165.15] Authentication-Results: mta1012.mail.sg1.yahoo.com from=retajhotels.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=retajhotels.com; dkim=neutral (no sig) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO mail.ispdsp.com) (91.147.165.15)

 by mta1012.mail.sg1.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:38:29 -0800

Received: from User (69.63.131.60) by MAIL.ISPDSP.COM (10.10.10.15) with

Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.0.639.21; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:46:50 +0300

Reply-To: <allmoz@inmail.sk> From: Mozilla Firefox <sales@retajhotels.com> Subject: New Year Reward (Final Notice) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:46:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="_iso-2022-jp$ESC" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1081 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1081 Message-ID: <e08f0edf-f077-40f0-9976-da363343eb81@MAIL.ISPDSP.COM> To: Undisclosed recipients:; Return-Path: sales@retajhotels.com Content-Length: 1343


The Message

Sir/Madam,

Good News !!!! Your E-mail Address has won (Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds only) GBP750,000 in the Mozilla Firefox yearly Online promo recently conducted. To claim this prize, email us for confirmation at: myawards@inmail.sk

Congratulations!

Yours faithfully,

Greg Adamson For: Mozilla Firefox Online Promo Team

Mozilla Foundation © 2012 • English (UK)

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hi yes they are pests but thats life.i asked them to put it into my account,then mailed them again and they ansewed but didnt send cash.i wonder why,just waiting for that cheque hahaha ralph

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Because this thread is old and more people might start using it for their own questions, I'm going to lock it.