weird winning email notifications to look for

When you've gotten used to receiving win notifications, you can easily tell the difference between a scam and a real one. I only use my regular ISP address for everything and I block any spam emails I get to cut down on them getting into my email. I don't get much spam at all. Only some of those lottery and bank security ones.

I do get alot of newsletters and advertisements, etc., that were required to receive in order to enter many sweepstakes; but that doesn't classify as spam.
 
If you entered this one.

Bedroomdivas.Com - Valentines Contest
Enter to win a $50 Victoria's Secret Gift Card. (There are many prizes, but bedroomdivas.com is ONLY responsible for the $50 Victoria's Secret Gift Card.)
Restrictions : N/A | Hits : 697 | Added : 01-24-08 | Expired : 02-15-2008 | Rules

Entry Category : One Entry

I just got a winning email and I almost deleted it. looks alot like spam.

Mike Salapatek Re: Bedroom Diva Admin: enter me :laughing:

So, If you entered this one check your email. I think you only have five days to respond. dont know yet what my prize is though. Will find out soon I hope.
 
:wave:
Hello Everyone,
Thanks for all the great advice here. I am fustrated with all the spam myself. I have not recieved a winning email from anyone that I know of and it takes me hours to delete all the spam and click on ones that I think are winners but end up being ads that give me a percentage off if I shop there. I dont know what to look for cause i get several messages from some of the sweeps i enter just as advertisments. I did however have my first win and it was an awesome win. It was a package of Razor products, skooter,scatebord,ramp,helmet,backpack and a three wheel scooter about $700 worth. I was so thrilled but I was never contacted the Fed X guy just showed up at my house two days in a row. My kids were amazed it was all toys. I was gonna save them for Christmas but my first win I couldnt it really was Christmas in July for them. I have not won anything since. Im afraid Im overlooking them or maybe just no wins. I loved the home delivery as opposed to have to find a win in email and respond within a certain period of time. I use live email and I realized yesterday that you can search ur email for certain subject lines line congrats and it will pull up only ur emails with that subject line which would save allot of time if I knew what to search for lol. so a list of winning subject lines ould be great for us all. I wish everyone allot of luck. Im spending my entire day just going through and checking and deleting emails today which cuts into my sweeps time. I get hundreds of email a day just from entering sweeps. thanks for posting and be sure to check ur email for search ur mail this helps when you need to scan through it. Have Blessed day..
 
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BAD addys to block - they will cut down on the ones you need to go through:

zsdfg.com
lgoqw.biz
1wrz.com
asever.info
bigmir.net
xmail.com
mymail.com
mymail.net
cashette.com
cccp.su
gala.net
mymail-in.net
tut.by
etradeoil.com
gawab.com
mail-eye.com
mediciness.net
maintech-au.com
pisem.net
sibmail.com
pisem.net
informator.bpa.nu
inmail24.com
hotpop.com
mainru.com
4warding.com
email.com
e-mail.net
ua-news.net
e-mail.com
izmail.net
mail15.com
mail333.com
.tv
.biz
.ru
.info
.org
.de
.pl
.ee
.cn
.cz
 
ledon said:
I try to maintain a list of all sweeps I enter online. A good rule of thumb is that if you didn't enter it you can't win it. So any winning email is checked against my list. If it's from something I didn't enter I know it's a scam. Of course there is always the small chance someone entered for me but usually a friend or family member would let me know. It's amazing how many times my email has won the Spanish Super lotto, the Nigerian sweepstakes, and the European jackpot. If I only had the same luck with my state lotto or Publishers Clearing House.(LOL)
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Not always true, especially for smaller sweeps, I started sweeping a few weeks ago and have received four wins and they were all from the E-mails of indiviuals not of the site I won from. I've gotten all thewins since by mail and Fed Ex.
 
you will probably not get a email from a .org site unless you requested.

.org are legit.

http://www.pbs.org/ public broadcasting system(?)

www. democrats.org

check out here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.org

I do a search about once a week using keywords such as winner, congradulations, prize. Gives me less to go through at one time and delete as at least 99% are not legit.
 
Re: Got a winning e-mail? Not sure, what do you think?

dinger said:
I have yet to win anything other than an instant, so I'm not sure what to think.
In the subject line it says winner and it's from Missy Ashton.

This is to correct the message earlier on sent to you. The correct e-mail address you should contact for your claim processing is national [email protected]

You should forward your response to this corrected e-mail address.

Once again, we are sorry for the miss up.

Yours Truly,

Missy Ashton

The wierd thing is I don't recall an earlier e-mail. I have no idea as to what contest/sweepstakes, what information they may be asking for etc.. I did reply just explaing that I'd been contacted by e-mail from her in response to a possible winner's notification however, I didn't recall an earlier e-mail and that if they could contact me with any information regaurding this subject it would be greatly appreciated. What do you think about this? Thank you.
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The tip off is the addy - in this case, it's Yahoo! Singapore {yahoo.com.my}

If the addy ends in .my, .hk, .ru, etc., it's a scammer :nono:
 
I have to agree with the person who first posted. I have recently received more than usual "winning" notifications. Some appear to look real, so be careful. I received two that looked real but realized they were not, after carefully reviewing it. I never click on anything they ask me to either.

I received one for KitchenAid appliance win and another one that said I won a samsung washer and dryer.

Has anyone recently entered the pogo.com sweeps??? I was wondering if that was reputatable too??? It looked suspicious - just asking???
 
I RECEIVED THIS ONE TODAY and it seems suspecious

:cry: :cussing:


From Thank You! <[email protected]>
(Add to address book) (Add to recent addresses) (Add to blacklist)
Date 12/2/2008 15:39:19
To [email protected]
Subject QVC gift card notice:




To_view_full_html_email_click_here Email: [email protected]
Re: Winter QVC® Gift Card Notice
-----------------------------------

- Thank you for your participation

This month you've been picked to complete our QVC® Gift Card Survey
for the chance to receive a $500 Gift Card from QVC®! (Participation required. See below for details.)

Simply complete our quick survey and follow our website instructions today.

Your Gift Card can be used to purchase products on QVC® programs or online.
We value your opinion and thanks again for your participation.

Sincerely,
Market-ResearchCouncil
 
tharedhead said:
Anything that says "participation required" is suspect.
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That one says "survey" though. Alot of marketing companies offer entry into drawings for prizes for completing surveys. It's just a matter of making sure they're a legitimate marketing/research firm.

I haven't had time for any surveys lately! :cry:
 
I have a separate email just for sweeping. I can just about tell without opening which emails are bogus. For sites, I installed a little program that warns me on dangerous sites. "Web of trust" You can find it here. http://www.mywot.com/
 
I too have a seperate email account just for sweeps and stuff and usually can tell immed. by the subj. line. However one nice win did go to my spam and it was from a monthly one time entry from Lucky Breaks (of which I have won 3 - 4 prizes from them) BUT the email came from the actual prize company of Evelyn and Crabtree. So if I hadnt opened it in the spam I would not have known I won a $100 of their products. I dont think I had to click on any confirmation link so it would have been one of those surprise deliveries by fed ex etc... which my very first prize win just happened to be a surprise delivery of $300 worth of Kinerase products so since that day I was hooked. Also my brother is a comp geek and I wasn't sure of one of the emails so I forwarded it to him and I think he just entered the url in a search engine and it didnt even show up so he sent me info that it was no good. So if that sounds correct to any of you computer geeks (not an insult by the way---a definate compliment)... can u let me know. If I enter the URL into a search engine and nothing even comes up then does that mean it is bogus??? Thanks
 
eflynn said:
So if that sounds correct to any of you computer geeks (not an insult by the way---a definate compliment)... can u let me know. If I enter the URL into a search engine and nothing even comes up then does that mean it is bogus??? Thanks
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What you do to find out the actual email address it's coming from, right click on the email link and then go down to "Properties" and click on that. It will bring up the email information.
 
:spam:For you guys trying to go through your spam looking for winner notifications: If you have google email, you can use an option that lets you know whether mail has been sent to just you or to you and a thousand others as well. If the message is just to you (this might be a winner's notification) it will be preceded by <<. If it was mass mailed it will be preceded by >. This helps a lot in knowing what to ignore and what to open up and investigate. Hope this helps someone. :sunny:
 
So if that sounds correct to any of you computer geeks (not an insult by the way---a definate compliment)... can u let me know. If I enter the URL into a search engine and nothing even comes up then does that mean it is bogus??? Thanks
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That really does vary on a couple of things. Sometimes sites won't show up in a search result because they have not been crawled by the spiders. That takes at least a few weeks sometimes if the site isn't linked to by other sites. Some companies keep their pages out of search engines for various business related reasons.
 
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