Please find enclosed your payment details. Kindly complete and submit immediately to collect your cash prize!
Congratulations!
Managment.
Mcdonalds Malaysia.
00-601-2656-1229"
Again, this is another spam plus scam email in my mailbox today. However, I hope this post can help other people to avoid falling a trap.
So, why this email is a scam??
1. It is totally non-official email but the email said "This is to officially inform you that ...."
2. What is the manager name??
3. What is 00-601-2656-1229 means??
Next, let's see the attached as shown below:
"
WINNERS ONLY
C\ Don Jaime I nº11 2º
50.003 Zaragoza
WORLD WIDE
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch: 92/234/03889
April 25th 2010
Dear Lucky Winner,
THE MC DONALD'S SEASONAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of McDonalds Annual Promo.
The online McDonalds KL, Malaysian Annual Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 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.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of twelve winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the following data:
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of £1,350,000 (ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS ONLY) each from the total payout.
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company
for SECOND category winners with the information below: You are also advised to give the following information’s to the claim's agent via email
1. Full name and address:
2. Country:
3. Tel and fax number:
4. Occupation:
5. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:
6. Age:
Dr Harry Hector,
MCDONALDS PROMO CLAIMS AGENT
Email: mcdonalds.malaysia@live.com.my
Phone: 00-601-2656-1229
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your claims agent.
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Azmir Jaafar,
Managing Director McDonalds Malaysia."
WINNERS ONLY
C\ Don Jaime I nº11 2º
50.003 Zaragoza
WORLD WIDE
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch: 92/234/03889
April 25th 2010
Dear Lucky Winner,
THE MC DONALD'S SEASONAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION.
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of McDonalds Annual Promo.
The online McDonalds KL, Malaysian Annual Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 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.
After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of twelve winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the following data:
Ref Number: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch Number: 92/234/03889
Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750
You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of £1,350,000 (ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS ONLY) each from the total payout.
Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company
for SECOND category winners with the information below: You are also advised to give the following information’s to the claim's agent via email
1. Full name and address:
2. Country:
3. Tel and fax number:
4. Occupation:
5. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:
6. Age:
Dr Harry Hector,
MCDONALDS PROMO CLAIMS AGENT
Email: mcdonalds.malaysia@live.com.my
Phone: 00-601-2656-1229
NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your claims agent.
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).
Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.
Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Azmir Jaafar,
Managing Director McDonalds Malaysia."
Note: This is just a spam email.( It does not consist of receiver's name, address etc ).
Next, although the name of Managing Director is correct, why such big company need to used live mail address??? mcdonalds.malaysia@live.com.my.
Lastly, please let me know if you have similar Ref Number, Batch Number and Ticket Number as shown below. It is very useful for us to once again verify this email is a scam email.
"
Ref Number: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch Number: 92/234/03889
Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750
"
Based on my experience, most of the spam emails do not change this kind of number.
To sum up, although the sender's email is very convincing, "Mcdonalds Malaysia <info@mcdonalds.com.my>", we have sufficient evidences to proof this is a scam email, that is, based on the email address of sender and receiver.
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Written by: Xaivier Chia
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Note:
- I have drop an official email to Mcdonalds to double verify this scam email. The reply will be posted ASAP.
- Good news for all my visitors here. Eventually, I have received an reply from McDonald regarding this scam email. Feel free to take a look at the post at McDonald's Seasonal Promotion - email scam (10/08/2010))
First edited at 29th Jan 2011 - Reason: To make it more reader-friendly.
