Does This Look Like A Legitimate Win Notification?

missunder

missunder

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Chevron Online ****OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION****

I enter so many sweepstakes until I cannot remember every company.
 
I wouldnt open it either. Most of the scams are in a bold and very vague.. Thats how they get ya. A real sweep will usually say the name of the sweep that you won. I dont think I have ever gotten a real one in all bold.
 
I just received the same email now. :laughing: No doubts...SCAMARAMA!

Here's what it said:

THE CHEVRON/TEXACO OIL COMPANY
1092 CHEVRON LAYOUT, WUSE ZONE 2,
WUSE, ABUJA. NIGERIA.

THE CHEVRON/TEXACO OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION.

You have been selected in the on-going Chevron/Texaco award held this July 2008.
We the promo board are pleased toinform you that you alongside four(4) othet
lucky winners have been approved for a payment of $200,000.00 USD. (Two
hundred thousand Dollars) in cash. If you did receive this email, it means you
are one of the five(5) lucky winners.
Your Qualification numbers is: (CT-222-6747,FGN/P-900-56). This promotion is
held to mark Chevron`s Aniversary. Youwill be required to fill out your
information in the belowgiven form and send it to the funds release officer in
West Africa, as this is co-sponsored by the Federal Government of Nigeria and
the Pepsi Corporation. Please find his contact details below:
Mr.Rawlings Patrick
[email protected]
Phone: +23480-7826-4712

You are also advised to provide the Fund Release Maneger with the under listed
information as soon as possible
NAME IN FULL: CONTACT ADDRESS: AGE: NATIONALITY: PHONE:

On behalf of the Board kindly accept our warmest congratulation..

Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Rose Wood.
Online Co-ordinator.
 
I use a database to keep track of my recent sweeps entries. This database also moves expired sweepstakes to a separate list so I can track any potential wins. Should I receive a sweeps win notification, I can easily search the database to see if I actually entered that particular promotion. It tracks things like the name of the promotion, list of prizes offered, website, etc. This way I can easily tell if a win notification is legitimate or not. So if I did enter a promotion from Chevron, but the prize I've supposedly won was not one of the prizes offered, I know I never entered that particular promotion. It prevents me from responding to false win notifications!
 
Anything from a major company in a sweep is not run by the company, it's run by a JA.. the only exception I can think of is, Kelloggs. Everyone else has a marketing department but lets an outside handle it.
 
I have received HUNDREDS of winning emails. Too bad they were all from either England or Nigeria. I even have received 3 checks in the mail- all postmarked from Paris and from Canada. Anything from another country I am told is a scam. Too bad they do manage to get to some poor person who doesn't know and it always costs them. Anything from another country- throw it!
 
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