Hi all,
I recieved a suspicous looking e-mail today from GiftStakes.com:
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Greetings,
Your email address was entered into our September Microsoft X-Box promotional competition
by yourself or a friend, family member, or associate.
This is a prize draw, you are now the lucky winner of a brand new Microsoft X-Box Gaming Console!
You are now entitled to simply claim your prize online at our website, you dont
have to buy anything, just collect your prize that you have already won.
There has only been a few winners out of many thousands of submissions,
so do count yourself lucky!
Please make sure you visit the following link within 72 hours, you have a temporary passcode.
If you do not go to this link within that time your winning shall unfortunately be returned to
the prize pool.
Here is your link!
http://www.giftstakes.com/cgi-bin/... (DELETED)
On the page you will need to enter this pass code number to proceed: (DELETED)
This is very important. Do not lose that number!
Put in your address, and we will simply mail your X-Box to you.
We hope that you will enjoy your new X-Box gaming console.
Congratulations on winning,
From Microsoft and the GiftStakes.Com team! Return-Path: (DELETED)
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In the words of Homer J., "Wait a minute! This could be some kind of scam ... or possibly scamola!"
But I'm a greedy bastard so I was wondering if anyone knows anything about this before I throw it out.
Thanks!
EDIT: BTW, I don't remeber entering any contest from them, but then again, they sent it to my junkmail address so I may have entered randomly at some point and simply forgot.
I recieved a suspicous looking e-mail today from GiftStakes.com:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Greetings,
Your email address was entered into our September Microsoft X-Box promotional competition
by yourself or a friend, family member, or associate.
This is a prize draw, you are now the lucky winner of a brand new Microsoft X-Box Gaming Console!
You are now entitled to simply claim your prize online at our website, you dont
have to buy anything, just collect your prize that you have already won.
There has only been a few winners out of many thousands of submissions,
so do count yourself lucky!
Please make sure you visit the following link within 72 hours, you have a temporary passcode.
If you do not go to this link within that time your winning shall unfortunately be returned to
the prize pool.
Here is your link!
http://www.giftstakes.com/cgi-bin/... (DELETED)
On the page you will need to enter this pass code number to proceed: (DELETED)
This is very important. Do not lose that number!
Put in your address, and we will simply mail your X-Box to you.
We hope that you will enjoy your new X-Box gaming console.
Congratulations on winning,
From Microsoft and the GiftStakes.Com team! Return-Path: (DELETED)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In the words of Homer J., "Wait a minute! This could be some kind of scam ... or possibly scamola!"
But I'm a greedy bastard so I was wondering if anyone knows anything about this before I throw it out.
Thanks!
EDIT: BTW, I don't remeber entering any contest from them, but then again, they sent it to my junkmail address so I may have entered randomly at some point and simply forgot.