do you think this is a scam ?
so i got this email from musecube ...[ the application form requires me to write my delivery address and lists 3 numbers : YOUR REFERENCE NUMBER: ID....
YOUR ENTRANCE NUMBER: 00....
YOUR ITEM NUMBER: Pepsi 02....]
I refer with regards to the application for being a part of our Pepsi face of Vanilla model search, upon certification of your details your entrance number will be duly processed. Hence, carefully fill in the appropriate information in the spaces provided below to facilitate immediate processing of your Application. Once we receive the requested information below, your approval file will be sent to Pepsi Vanilla promo department and you will be contacted immediately.
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i googled this contest and nothin came up
> Thank you for your reply and interest concerning our Pepsi “ask for
>more” Vanilla flavor model search, taking place on the 17th of May 2006 at
>Hotel Florida.
> We are pleased to inform you that you have been chosen among 1
>of our 20 contestants. Congratulations!!!
> In view of this, you are hereby mandated to follow up the
>following instructions to qualify you as our new face of Pepsi vanilla,
>
>1. You will be enquired to send your delivery address since Pepsi
>organizers promo department will be taking charge of all logistic payments
>of our various contestants, this includes, Hotel accommodation, air flight
>tickets and a cash prize of Two thousand pounds bonus, will be sent to you
>three days to the day of your arrival.
>
>
>2. It is more of our advantage for you to become the winner but in the
>other way round, Pepsi “ask for more” promo will award all contestants with
>the sum of ten thousand pounds and with lots of Pepsi consolation prizes
>for being a part of the Pepsi face of vanilla search…
>
>The winners will automatically goes home with the sum of Two hundred
>thousand pounds as the contesting winner plus other awards courtesy Pepsi
>organization promo.
>
>Our Head office is at #115 Saka Tinubu Street, Victoria Island, and Lagos.
>Nigeria, Telephone number: +2348033646253.
>Our percentage is 30% while the remaining 70% is yours. Other deals will
>also attract since you are now licensed as a member under World link
>consulting Inc.
>We shall therefore await your immediate response with your letter of
>application attached in your e-mail as well as your full details as soon as
>possible.
>Thank you for being our contestant, attach is your application Form. Fill
>out carefully and send back to me Via E-mail.
>
>
>
>Yours sincerely,
>Tom Heskey. (For: World link Consultant)
>
i dont know what to think i put my pics on musecube for fun didnt expect to get jobs really ,and this guy wrote sayin i was selected.... the money sounds good but somehow doesnt seem clear ... what do you think?
Re: do you think this is a scam ?
Nigeria is the home of a lot of international scams. Why would the real Pepsi (based in the US) have a Nigerian address as part of their contest? (BTW, you could also check with Pepsi http://www.pepsi.com/home.php)
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:eye-poppi LOL i had no idea nigeria was the scam s capital :no: ... but yeah Smoothcat, i thought the same thing why pepsi would hire some nigerian agency to find new faces
and i didnt think of checkin the pepsi website but i did after yr posting and there s nothin about it ... but i was wondering how this scam works... like maybe i get charged a hidden fee for filling the application which i d be forced to pay for , or somethin like that... ?
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Originally Posted by Cristalla
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>Our Head office is at #115 Saka Tinubu Street, Victoria Island, and Lagos.
>Nigeria, Telephone number: +2348033646253.
It's a scam mama!
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hi CK! u got the same email too?
i wonder who would pick up to the other end of that phone number ;) !
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Yup, it's a fakey. Mox works for Frito (which is under PepsiCo), and I keep up with everything that goes on with the company (stock purposes and such). Haven't heard a thing about it, so it's gotta be a scam.
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Originally Posted by Cristalla
hi CK! u got the same email too?
i wonder who would pick up to the other end of that phone number ;) !
NO, I didn't get it, but just seeing Nigeria was enough for me ;)
Re: do you think this is a scam ?
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I think its a scam and be very careful out there. I have to agree with everyone else on this one its a FAKE!
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Still agree...they would make something like this very public if it was a contest type thing.
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All unsolicited e-mails are some form of scam.
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i've got quite a few different emails via musecube for various things based in nigeria. not the pepsi one, but similar stuff. it's all a big scam.
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I got this one last week, it sounds simular. I would never model for Pepsi anyway for ethical reasons so I didn't bother reading past the second line originally. The email adress for this one was at yahoo.co.uk
Hello,
we are presently in search for young and talented
models,who can be use for the new Pepsi ask for more vanilla
flavour foto shoot.if you are interested and would like to know more
about our entrance protocals,please feel free to contact me back.
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D00d...Nigerian scam letters. I haven't gotten one. I'm not cool enough. :(
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Originally Posted by aussiepunkshocker
I got this one last week, it sounds similar.
Hello,
we are presently in search for young and talented
models,who can be use for the new Pepsi ask for more vanilla
flavour foto shoot.if you are interested and would like to know more
about our entrance protocals,please feel free to contact me back.
yeah that s the exact thing i got, Aussie .... they even mispelled that word (protocals) the same way ,,, lmao! and it was a yahoo.com address
it does sound like scam.. what i wonder is what do they get out of it?
i mean no one would send them money or credit card numbers.... what are they trying to do once they would get submissions of those application forms? im curious...
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They get you to give them money to help them out to submit it and... they keep stringing you along for money. XD People have lost THOUSANDS... HUNDREDS of thousands actually. :D
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how ,Lilith? they just asked for my delivery address to send me the plane ticket and the 2000 pounds bonus... < hell it sounds just plain wrong >...lol
besides ,the guy s name sending the email is different than the guy signing the form of this world link agency
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Originally Posted by Cristalla
they just asked for my delivery address to send me the plane ticket and the 2000 pounds bonus... < hell it sounds just plain wrong >...lol
When you send them your address, they will undoubtedly email you with a request for money. They'll need something to cover some processing cost or bribery or some such swill. Try it - send them a fake address and see if they don't start asking for money...
Or worse yet, maybe they're trying to lure attractive western women into the country for some form of 'white slavery'....
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http://www.secretservice.gov/index.shtml
Wow, I feel so special, I get to post the Secret Service website twice in one day! They have a section for $$ fraud and scams, and guess who is their #1 target? NIGERIA! They will tell you over the phone is to erase it asap and not to respond to it in any way. The Secret Service actually won't put in time and $$ to investigate Nigerian email scams anymore, due to the sheer volume of them. The only way you will get active participation is if you were crazy enough to give the Nigerians $$ and need help recovering it. But the nice agent I spoke to on the phone said the emails can be forwarded to them (SS) for record-keeping.
Thanx to my man's obsession with trying to win online "prizes", I've received more of those Nigerian email scam things than I care to admit...