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I received the following SMS: Congratulation! Your no. Was amount the lucky winners on the NOKIA YEARLY PROMOTION. You won, R95, 000 Call Miss Pindile Ndlovu for your cash prize.

When i phoned the person asked how i would like to receive my money, but they need my ID no to make the payment, I would not give my ID details, and was told if i dont want my prize there are lost of people wanting the prize and i must stop wasting there time.

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Taryn Bannister
, ZA
Jan 23, 2010 1:32 am EST

I received an sms stating:Congratulations, your number was among the lucky winners on the NOKIA YEARLY PROMOTION. You won R250000.00. Ticket number 0166P. Call Mark Luis on [protected] for your cash prize from 08am to 6pm.
I contacted the person who answered the number as Mark Luis and asked from where i was calling and what number and for the ticket number.
After supplying this info he said i was to purchase 2 x MTN recharge vouchers for R180 = R360.00. I was to sms the pin numbers with my cell number, ticket number and banking account number, Initials and age and fax number to him to activate the ticket.
They would make payment to my account before close of day.

After searching the Nokia UK site i found no such promotion and believe this to be a fraud scam. I would appreciate comment from both Nokia and MTN in this regard as i am continuing with criminal proceedings against this person, unless otherwise confirmed by either MTN or Nokia.

Regards
Taryn Bannister

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Anne-lize
, ZA
Dec 15, 2009 12:30 am EST

I have also received this sms. I have paid the registration and administration fee of R360 MTN airtime. They said my money will be transferred on Monday, 14/12/2009. They contacted me yesterday, Monday, to say that I must pay an amount of R4000 insurance before the money will be paid over. Luckily I have not done this yet. I send them and sms requesting documentation and received an e-mail with an award winning certificate as well as an insurance certificate. This all looks very real. I have not paid the said R4000 insurance money and requested them via return e-mail this morning to send me contact details of their insurance company as well as the company head office. I have contacted Nokia SA yesterday and they said that they do not have any such promotions at the moment.

Please can someone advise me some more about this and if possible where can I find out about the authenticity of the documents send to me?

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Bukelwa
, ZA
Dec 07, 2009 10:10 am EST

My father have received the same SMS saying that he have won R95000 and he must buy R180 worth of MTN airtime from garage, Checkers or Pep Stores in order to activate his ticket. Thereafter he must SMS his details to Mr Paul Benson's cell phone [protected] for the information to be given through to their payment department. he also had two options of how he wanted to receive his payment.

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Ilse Maree
, ZA
Dec 03, 2009 1:34 am EST

I have also received the same SMS saying that I have won R95000 and must buy R350 worth of MTN airtime from Checkers or Pep Stores in order to activate my ticket. Thereafter I must SMS my details to Mr Paul Benson's cell phone [protected] for the information to be given through to their payment department. I also had two options of how I want to receive my payment.

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San1ty
, ZA
Nov 02, 2009 2:26 am EST

I have recieved the same sms... mmm what to do

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Lolotjie
, ZA
Oct 26, 2009 3:04 am EDT

Hi there.

What can happen if you gave your ID num to them?