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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:07 am

I recently received this email:

THE PEPSI COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT
151 CANADA SQUARE,CANARY WHARF,
LONDON, E14 5DY, UNITED KINGDOM.

THE PEPSI COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION.

You have been Selected in the PEPSI CONSUMER AWARD NEW YEAR BONANZA
held this March 2008. We the PROMO BOARD are pleased to inform you
that you are approved for a payment of 1,500,000.00 Pounds Sterlings (One
Million,
Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterlings) payable by a certified bank draft,
credited to file reference number BTN:41632006/20. It is aimed at
encouraging our consumers and internet users as well.

Please be advised that upon your receipt of this formal notification,
do fill the verification form below, and return to the CLAIMS PROCESSING
DEPARTMENT,
for final verification and further instructions on how to claim your prize.
To get intouch with the CLAIMS PROCESSING DEPARTMENT,follow the
instructions below:

You will be required to fill the out your information below correctly, and
send the
details to the CLAIMS PROCESSING DEPARTMENT. Please find the contact
details below:

CONTACT DETAILS OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER/PAYOUT OFFICER:

Name: Mr. Vanden MacAlister
151 Canada Square, Canary Wharf,
London E14 5DY, United Kingdom
E MAIL: [email protected]
Phone: +44 7035 902804 +44 7035 902773

NAME IN FULL:
CONTACT ADDRESS:
AGE:
OCCUPATION:
PHONE:
FAX:
MOBILE:
SEX (M/F):
ANNUAL INCOME:
HOW OFTEN DO YOU DRINK PEPSI:
REMARKS ABOUT PEPSI:

Congratulations once again from the Pepsi Family.

Yours Sincerely,
Rhonda Williams
Online Co-ordinator

Has anyone else gotten one of these? Seems pretty dang fake to me Razz

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

I've seen it before. It's fake. Legit lotteries don't send out random emails. They sell tickets. Wink

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:10 am

Pepsi most certainly does not use a gmail account

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:11 am

Quote:

E MAIL: [email protected]
Phone: +44 7035 902804 +44 7035 902773

Cos Pepsi use Gmail and a redirect number.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

Utter crap.

Why is there a poll? Laughing

419Eater is my life Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 428

More to the point, who voted No?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:03 am

What if everyone said No?

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

^^Then we would all go to hell and burn?

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:26 am

Would the person who voted "No" please report HERE? Your mentor must be looking for you Laughing

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:26 am

Just in case it's real, I sent them an email to claim my winnings Wink

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1043

I have now voted no.

I emailed them saying i thought it was a little strange and i wasn't sure i had entered a fund, but they have appeased all my worries.

1. You don't need to enter. They pick people at random from a list that a company may have given them.

2. They are 100% legit and risk free.

3. I am standing to win ,500,000.00 Pounds Sterlings (One
Million, Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterlings) and all i have to do is send them all my details and a relatively small sum.

Brilliant huh.

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 3:43 am

Ummm, pople fall for these or they wouldn't be so ubiquitious. Just to keep this thread going, I am going to vote "No" as soon as I stop scratching my head.

Some place someone (I too am lazy) was keeping track of all of the "Lottery" winnings they had to date. It was into the quintillions or some such amount.

Nice catch though.

Welcome here, read the stickies and use search for "Lottery" and you will be blown away.

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:54 am

You people are too suspicious, I for one think this is absolutely 100% risk free and not fraudulent at all, google is a huge company. You don't think smaller ones like Pepsi wouldn't use these facilities? I mean Coke sends out lottery's to people at random, why wouldn't Pepsi. Pepsi doesn't taste THAT bad.

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:09 am

FlamingBrad wrote:

Has anyone else gotten one of these? Seems pretty dang fake to me Razz

Thousands of people will instantly recognise this as a scam.
Thousands of variations of the same scam are regularly in circulation.

I have removed the poll, which was pretty pointless, and just in case others think that it's the right thing to do. Smile

The initial post would have been more appropriate in the Surplus Letters Forum.

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:35 am

Quote:

HOW OFTEN DO YOU DRINK PEPSI

Never since it rotted all my teeth. That's why I can't speak to you on the phone.

Quote:

REMARKS ABOUT PEPSI:

It's really good for cleaning those tough shit stains in my toilet

Quote:

Congratulations once again from the Pepsi Family.

Wow! I didn't realise there was a Pepsi family! Coool! Do they like live in the same street as the Disneys, McDonalds, Nikes and the Coca Colas?

One of life's mysteries is why isn't there a 'Colonel Sanders KFC Family Special Gut Busting Battery Reared Chicken Bucket Lotto'? Shocked

Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:58 pm

@ Tommo, they will no you are a baiter straight away... everyone knows Coke is the only softdrink that is good at cleaning the toilet!