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Old 02-21-2006 | 08:52 AM
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I received the following by e mail. I knew it could not be true but since they did not ask for my personal info, I called Honda USA. The confirmed that this is not from Honda. It is a scam.

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HONDA MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED,
28 TAN FIELD ROAD,LONDON. UK
AFFILIATE
TO: HONDA MOTOR COY. LTD,
JAPAN.




HONDA AWARD NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the release,
of the long awaited results of the HONDA CAR INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION
PROGRAM held in 4th JANUARY, 2006 . You were entered as dependent
clients with: Reference SERIAL NUMBER: 652-662 and Batch number AT-
040SB06-03. Your email address attached to the ticket number:
2752246896 that drew the lucky winning number, which consequently won
the sweepstake in the first category,in four parts. You have been
approved for a payment of
Old 02-21-2006 | 09:02 AM
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Yeah, just in reading that it has SCAM written all over it... it's originated in Nigeria. This stuff is going on all of the time. Just wait until you try to sell a car online, you get a flood of them.

Sometimes it's fun to **** around with the scammers, though.
Old 02-21-2006 | 09:34 AM
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Yeah, nice ingesh...
Old 02-21-2006 | 09:36 AM
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Email: hondawinning01@yahoo.co.uk

that right there would give it away that it's a scam..
Old 02-21-2006 | 10:11 AM
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Congratulations Bat!
I wonder when they would ask for personal info, or money?

I just read about a good scam, that would take a lot of people. You get a call from a court clerk who is notifying you there has been a warrant issued for your arrest. You, of course, ask why, and are told you failed to appear for jury duty. You will say I never got a notice to appear, so the clerk checks it all out, and in the course of helping straighten it out, he asks for your social security number and date of birth.
Would you fall for it? How about your 87 year old widowed mother?
Old 02-21-2006 | 10:54 AM
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hha they're spreading five million British Pounds over 50,000 participants?? them be some good odds
Old 02-21-2006 | 11:18 AM
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not to mention horrid english and spelling. classic.
Old 02-21-2006 | 11:39 AM
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REALLY?!?! It's not a SCAM!? Welcome to teh internet!
Old 02-21-2006 | 11:50 AM
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I just hope these morons don't find some white guy on the street willing to get paid serious $$$ to make their poor scamming attempts at least sound legit.
Old 02-21-2006 | 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Wisconsin S2k,Feb 21 2006, 12:18 PM
not to mention horrid english and spelling. classic.
From your avatar,looks like you can appeciate this story.






The couple was dressed and ready to go out for the evening. They turned on a
night light, turned on the answering machine, covered their pet parakeet's cage
and put the cat in the backyard. They phoned the local cab company and
requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and the couple opened
the front door to leave their house. The cat they had put out into the yard
scooted back into the house. They didn't want the cat shut in the house because
she always tries to eat the bird. The wife went out to the taxi while the
husband went inside to get the cat. The cat ran upstairs with the man in hot
pursuit. Waiting in the cab, the wife didn't want the driver to know the house
would be empty for the night. She explained to the taxi driver that her husband
would be out soon. "He's just going upstairs to say good-bye to my mother." A
few minutes later the husband got into the cab. "Sorry I took so long," he
said, as they drive away. "Stupid bitch was hiding under the bed. I had to poke
her with a coat hanger to get her to come out! She tried to take off,but I
grabbed her by the neck. Then I had to wrap her in a blanket to keep her from
scratching me. But it worked. I hauled her fat ass downstairs and threw her out
into the back yard!"
The cabdriver hit a parked car....


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