Please read the following email carefully, it is a fraud, fraud, fraud nothing else!!!!
Email which was sent to me is like this :
"...
THE COCA COLA COMPANY
PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD
DEPT:COCA COLA AVENUE
STAMFORD BRIDGE LONDON.
SW1V 3DW UNITED KINGDOM
THE COCA COLA COMPANY OFFICIAL PRIZE NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws held on (28th August, 2007 ) by Coca-Cola in conjunction with the British American Tobacco Worldwide Promotion.Your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won £1,000,000.00{One Million Great Britain Pounds} each in the THE COCA\COLA COMPANY 2007 PROMO.
However the results were released today 29th August, 2007 and your email was attached to ticket number (7PWYZ2006) and ballot number (BT:12052006/20) The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031,643 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) .
This Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board and also licensed by the The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).This lottery is the 3rd of its kind and we intend to sensitize the public.
To begin the claim processing of your prize you are to contact the fiduciary agent as stated below:
Mr Bradd Cooker
22 Garden Close, Stamford,
Lincs,PE9 2YP,London
United Kingdom
Email:info_promoclaims@yahoo.de
Tel:+447011131264
Tel:+447031898729
Tel:+447024070345
1. Full Names :
.........................................................
2. Residential Address :
.......................................................
3. Phone Number :Mobile&Home
......................................................
4. Fax Number :
.........................................................
5. Occupation :
.........................................................
6. Sex :
.........................................................
7. Age :
.........................................................
8. Nationality :......................................
9.Ballot No. :......... 10.Ticket No.:............
*You are adviced to forward these informations as soon as possible to
enable us attend to your file.
Due to possible mix up of some numbers and email contacts, we ask that you keep this award strictly from public notice until your claim has been processed and your money remitted. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming or unscrupulous acts by some participants of this program.
*Staff of Coca-Cola and the British American Tobacco Company are not to partake in this PROMOTION.
Accept our hearty congratulations once again!
Yours Faithfully,
Management.
...."
More or less all the fake lottery winner's notification is as above. One after another I am receiving this kind of email. Whenever you receive such kind of email, please consider the following.
1. You win any lottery where you didn't buy a ticket! It's really that easy! It's not just too good to be true: it's bait in a trap!
2. You receive a generous grant out of the blue. Sadly (but not surprisingly) there aren't any benevolent people regularly throwing around millions of pounds/dollars/euros to randomly chosen people. This is just the lottery scam without the ticket.
3. They send you partial payment in the form of a cheque, money order, or direct bank transfer and want you to pay them fees out of that money. They're playing you for a sucker: cheques are frequently forged, and direct transfers made by compromising some poor schmuck's online banking service. You'll wind up a victim of fraud, or a party to it.
4. They want you to send them any money of any sort for any reason. They might try to say there are courier fees or taxes to cover. They're lying. Call their bluff and tell them to take the fees out themselves -- they'll never ever agree, because they can't defraud you unless money is making the reverse trip from you to them somehow.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
The Truth about Free Offers Online
When you open your email or even a web page and see those new messages claiming you can win a $500 gift card to your favorite restaurant or store or even a laptop or Ipod, what do you do? Do you simply delete them like most folks? More than likely you do because nobody is going to just give you something for free, or are they? The truth of the matter is that these emails are most often real offers; they just require a little work on your side in order to claim the prize. There is no need for you to delete these emails if you are actually interested in the prize because they really are attainable if you just follow the details. And, what might the details be you are thinking? Keep reading!
The details vary depending on the offer at hand, but most of the time you can easily read to find out what is expected and determine if it is worth your while. Most of the websites will let you pick a particular gift, like a $50 gift card to your favorite restaurant and then add your address so your gift card may be mailed to you. You are probably wondering what the catch is. Basically, there is a catch and there isn’t. You do receive a free gift card, just like promised, but you also must complete some offers. The number varies, but usually it is four or more. Most of the free gift offers require signing up for some kind of other offer that requires a valid credit card number. After you have met the requirements then your gift card will be sent to you free of charge.
Keep in mind that many of these websites will have several pages of offers that do not count towards the minimum number of offers for your free gift so you should always read the rules and guidelines first. There are many types of websites that offer free gifts, which are paid for by advertisers, in exchange for the completion of other offers on the site or even referrals of friends. So the next time you receive one of these emails, check it out. You just might find a few offers worth completing and receive a cool, free gift!
If you enjoy getting free stuff and don’t mind filling out an offer or two check out some of the promotional offers going on at Giveaway Central.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gareth_Brown
The details vary depending on the offer at hand, but most of the time you can easily read to find out what is expected and determine if it is worth your while. Most of the websites will let you pick a particular gift, like a $50 gift card to your favorite restaurant and then add your address so your gift card may be mailed to you. You are probably wondering what the catch is. Basically, there is a catch and there isn’t. You do receive a free gift card, just like promised, but you also must complete some offers. The number varies, but usually it is four or more. Most of the free gift offers require signing up for some kind of other offer that requires a valid credit card number. After you have met the requirements then your gift card will be sent to you free of charge.
Keep in mind that many of these websites will have several pages of offers that do not count towards the minimum number of offers for your free gift so you should always read the rules and guidelines first. There are many types of websites that offer free gifts, which are paid for by advertisers, in exchange for the completion of other offers on the site or even referrals of friends. So the next time you receive one of these emails, check it out. You just might find a few offers worth completing and receive a cool, free gift!
If you enjoy getting free stuff and don’t mind filling out an offer or two check out some of the promotional offers going on at Giveaway Central.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Gareth_Brown
Monday, June 8, 2009
Is Google in Trouble & Facing Bankruptcy?
[NEW YORK - Wednesday] - by Devon Melk.
Rumors are now running amok that the 2nd most powerful website on the entire Worldwide-Web may file BANKRUPTCY, with the deadline set for this December; being the
date of both discharge and dissolution in a Federal Court of Law.
This would come as a SHOCK to investors and "Googlers" alike who
both profit and benefit from the use of the World's largest and
most powerful search engine which receives far in excess of
100 MILLION unique daily visitors and well over 300 million
individual searches daily - making it perhaps the single most
valuable public data resource as an "information bank" online the
world over.
But is the rumor true or false?
The origin of the rumor occurred when some savvy Internet marketers
began making statements that they had heard "insiders' talk" that
the company (now publicly traded since April 30, 2004, just over 3
years ago) may face financial disaster with the release of a "new
system" that would allow advertisers to get their otherwise
pay-per-click (PPC) advertising completely free.
This, of course, would naturally lead directly (like a domino-
effect) to the collapse of Google's sibling program AdSense; as its
only revenue comes from the direct sales of AdWords "clicks."
The "new system" in question and responsible for the controversy
over getting AdWords pay-per-clicks free is that developed by
Dr Jon Cohen of New York City, New York (now retired) who discovered
a simple, yet effective means, for getting Google PPC ads without
having to suffer the costs involved.
The retired New York doctor and native has a publicly disclosed net
worth now in excess of $7O million [US], having generated well over
$377 million in product sales from sixteen (16) separate online
businesses within just nine (9) years since first venturing online
in 1998 (about the same time as Google was founded).
It is estimated by company insiders and leading financial analysts
that the "good doctor" (as he's called by "all who know him") has
purportedly saved well over $93 million (some estimates suggest
closer to $136 million) in otherwise paid advertising at Google and
the other major players in the PPC targeted-search arena online -
including Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves, AllTheWeb.com, HotBot, AltaVista,
Lycos and Netscape, just to name a few.
The "secret" became available to the general masses last April, and
its very release caused such a major sweeping stir among the
community of Internet-marketers, affiliate-marketers, webmasters,
ecommerce company owners and surfers alike that the site quickly
rose to break the top most visited 1,000 websites on the entire
planet briefly; and as can be seen here:
http://www.tinyurl.com/39lnjn/ (Alexa data on this!)
When asked if the "secret" would somehow ruin Google, Dr Cohen
revealed almost cryptically that it actually would bring about just
the opposite effect, and "stimulate" even more business volume for
the virtual giant.
Many people were dismayed to find that Google itself is deliberately
allowing the purchase of 100,000's of PPC ads offering the secret
system to the general public -- which indicates to most observers
that either they [Google] haven't caught it, or they simply feel
that it somehow is not a threat to their continued operation.
For anyone's inspection factual and hard evidence supporting this
can be seen by simply looking to the right-hand column when doing a
search for "get google ads free" (specifically in quotation marks)
at Google.com under the "Sponsored Links" section.
Or take this direct and instant SHORTCUT:
http://www.tinyurl.com/2ctu6j
You can also see nearly 100,000 specific results in the "organic"
fields index located in the center and which occupies the bulk of
the results pages.
One would think that if Google felt threatened by such a release as
this earth-shaking "secret" is, they would hardly allow for either
paid-ads or organic content to make the top searches regarding it.
However, evidence supports to the contrary - and this being the
case now for a full six (6) months.
Mysteriously, within just two (2) hours of its initial release last
April, Google itself actually did in fact 'pause' the parent firm's
attempts at advertising the new system using PPCs on their search
engine - only, however, to release the hold after a Review Team
consisting of some of Google's top executives completed performing
an in-depth investigation and made the determination to ALLOW the
ads to run.
The secret system was recently revised however to include "major
new content" and "more exhaustive instructions," and is now
available at its Home Site:
http://www.nikhil2107.freegoogle.hop.clickbank.net/
The most important addition is that of a so-called "string of code"
(tech-talk for some HTML) that can be added to any webpage(s) that
instantly causes the elimination of the page owner's AdWords costs
right away.
Even a "live" woman spokes-representative ("Rachel") has been added
to the site, and who appears to literally walk out onto the webpage
and talk to visitors and explain a bit more how the mysterious new
breakthrough system works.
Since the addition of this new "live" spokes-woman has now appeared
at the site, company Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr Todd
Coutrin states that "sales for the system have skyrocketed above
2,430% suddenly and with no limit in sight."
Coutrin continues: "With the newest revision now in place, plus all
the additions added, affiliates for the new system can expect to
earn even more than ever before!" (Note: Affiliates make up the
bulk of the firm's sales generation.)
The refund rate for the new revised version of the secret (named
V5.1) has dropped to less than half of what it was before the newer
version's release; meaning it's now even more readily-received and
put to use than ever before (perhaps in large part to the newer
simplicity of application) - now making it the safest and one of
the best resellers for the networks of affiliate marketers who earn
their revenues from the reselling of other electronic publishers'
stock and digital product lines.
When asked, Google company representatives stated matter-of-factly
that the rumors of bankruptcy for the ecommerce giant are simply
not true, and that the rumor millings are in fact simply the result
of "panics" brought on by the usual hysteria associated with
anything large, new or revolutionary - or in this case, all three.
Attempts to contact both Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the former
Stanford University students who founded Google in 1998, to request
comment were unsuccessful.
Again, Google itself seems to be the biggest supporter of the "new
system" as it's allowing more and more advertisers to promote the
new system on its search engine before over 100 million daily
searches and surfers.
Rumors are now running amok that the 2nd most powerful website on the entire Worldwide-Web may file BANKRUPTCY, with the deadline set for this December; being the
date of both discharge and dissolution in a Federal Court of Law.
This would come as a SHOCK to investors and "Googlers" alike who
both profit and benefit from the use of the World's largest and
most powerful search engine which receives far in excess of
100 MILLION unique daily visitors and well over 300 million
individual searches daily - making it perhaps the single most
valuable public data resource as an "information bank" online the
world over.
But is the rumor true or false?
The origin of the rumor occurred when some savvy Internet marketers
began making statements that they had heard "insiders' talk" that
the company (now publicly traded since April 30, 2004, just over 3
years ago) may face financial disaster with the release of a "new
system" that would allow advertisers to get their otherwise
pay-per-click (PPC) advertising completely free.
This, of course, would naturally lead directly (like a domino-
effect) to the collapse of Google's sibling program AdSense; as its
only revenue comes from the direct sales of AdWords "clicks."
The "new system" in question and responsible for the controversy
over getting AdWords pay-per-clicks free is that developed by
Dr Jon Cohen of New York City, New York (now retired) who discovered
a simple, yet effective means, for getting Google PPC ads without
having to suffer the costs involved.
The retired New York doctor and native has a publicly disclosed net
worth now in excess of $7O million [US], having generated well over
$377 million in product sales from sixteen (16) separate online
businesses within just nine (9) years since first venturing online
in 1998 (about the same time as Google was founded).
It is estimated by company insiders and leading financial analysts
that the "good doctor" (as he's called by "all who know him") has
purportedly saved well over $93 million (some estimates suggest
closer to $136 million) in otherwise paid advertising at Google and
the other major players in the PPC targeted-search arena online -
including Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves, AllTheWeb.com, HotBot, AltaVista,
Lycos and Netscape, just to name a few.
The "secret" became available to the general masses last April, and
its very release caused such a major sweeping stir among the
community of Internet-marketers, affiliate-marketers, webmasters,
ecommerce company owners and surfers alike that the site quickly
rose to break the top most visited 1,000 websites on the entire
planet briefly; and as can be seen here:
http://www.tinyurl.com/39lnjn/ (Alexa data on this!)
When asked if the "secret" would somehow ruin Google, Dr Cohen
revealed almost cryptically that it actually would bring about just
the opposite effect, and "stimulate" even more business volume for
the virtual giant.
Many people were dismayed to find that Google itself is deliberately
allowing the purchase of 100,000's of PPC ads offering the secret
system to the general public -- which indicates to most observers
that either they [Google] haven't caught it, or they simply feel
that it somehow is not a threat to their continued operation.
For anyone's inspection factual and hard evidence supporting this
can be seen by simply looking to the right-hand column when doing a
search for "get google ads free" (specifically in quotation marks)
at Google.com under the "Sponsored Links" section.
Or take this direct and instant SHORTCUT:
http://www.tinyurl.com/2ctu6j
You can also see nearly 100,000 specific results in the "organic"
fields index located in the center and which occupies the bulk of
the results pages.
One would think that if Google felt threatened by such a release as
this earth-shaking "secret" is, they would hardly allow for either
paid-ads or organic content to make the top searches regarding it.
However, evidence supports to the contrary - and this being the
case now for a full six (6) months.
Mysteriously, within just two (2) hours of its initial release last
April, Google itself actually did in fact 'pause' the parent firm's
attempts at advertising the new system using PPCs on their search
engine - only, however, to release the hold after a Review Team
consisting of some of Google's top executives completed performing
an in-depth investigation and made the determination to ALLOW the
ads to run.
The secret system was recently revised however to include "major
new content" and "more exhaustive instructions," and is now
available at its Home Site:
http://www.nikhil2107.freegoogle.hop.clickbank.net/
The most important addition is that of a so-called "string of code"
(tech-talk for some HTML) that can be added to any webpage(s) that
instantly causes the elimination of the page owner's AdWords costs
right away.
Even a "live" woman spokes-representative ("Rachel") has been added
to the site, and who appears to literally walk out onto the webpage
and talk to visitors and explain a bit more how the mysterious new
breakthrough system works.
Since the addition of this new "live" spokes-woman has now appeared
at the site, company Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr Todd
Coutrin states that "sales for the system have skyrocketed above
2,430% suddenly and with no limit in sight."
Coutrin continues: "With the newest revision now in place, plus all
the additions added, affiliates for the new system can expect to
earn even more than ever before!" (Note: Affiliates make up the
bulk of the firm's sales generation.)
The refund rate for the new revised version of the secret (named
V5.1) has dropped to less than half of what it was before the newer
version's release; meaning it's now even more readily-received and
put to use than ever before (perhaps in large part to the newer
simplicity of application) - now making it the safest and one of
the best resellers for the networks of affiliate marketers who earn
their revenues from the reselling of other electronic publishers'
stock and digital product lines.
When asked, Google company representatives stated matter-of-factly
that the rumors of bankruptcy for the ecommerce giant are simply
not true, and that the rumor millings are in fact simply the result
of "panics" brought on by the usual hysteria associated with
anything large, new or revolutionary - or in this case, all three.
Attempts to contact both Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the former
Stanford University students who founded Google in 1998, to request
comment were unsuccessful.
Again, Google itself seems to be the biggest supporter of the "new
system" as it's allowing more and more advertisers to promote the
new system on its search engine before over 100 million daily
searches and surfers.
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