Anyone receive an email from “Samsung Electronics co.” claiming you’ve won a TV and money? Suspicious?

7Apr2008 Filed under: News Author: admin

salmisx asked:

The return email address is yahoo and it is asking me for my name, address, nationality, phone, etc. Also it says my email was pulled out of a an internet data base “lottery” and I should reply prompty, anyone know about this? I calld “yahoo” but thery’re closed…

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5 Responses to “Anyone receive an email from “Samsung Electronics co.” claiming you’ve won a TV and money? Suspicious?”

jitrfts
April 9th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

If an e-mail claiming to be from Yahoo comes to you, ignore it cause there has been a lot of reports about people getting e-mails telling them that they won something.
Tha Notorious V.K.N
April 10th, 2008 at 9:38 am

Yes, i have heard about spammers sending viruses and stealing money from you bank acout through messages like the one you recieved. I’d say flag it down and wait until morning and call yahoo up about it. It’s the best thing you can do in your situation.
MR. iaNLiVe
April 10th, 2008 at 11:21 am

JUST MARK IT AS SPAM.
Psycmixer
April 11th, 2008 at 10:22 pm

Report the mail to Yahoo.You do not need to call them. You have to send them the entire mail. I have given you a Link that will guide you through the process. It tells you you need the “Full Headers” to show the headers, when you open the mail look to the bottem of the page and look for ” Full Headers” and click it then follow the instructions on the link.
~*Tweety Gurl*~
April 13th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

I haven’t heard of anything like this coming from Samsung Electronics, but ,from your description, it sounds like a phishing scam. A phishing scam is usually an email that claims to be coming from a trustworthy person or business asking for personal information. For example, I’ve gotten several emails that claim to be from different banks and I’ve even gotten some that claim to be from PayPal. These emails usually ask you to click on a link in the email and verify your account information.

First of all, if you had actually won something why would they be asking you for your name, address, nationality, and phone number? Wouldn’t they already have that information if you had entered the contest?

Second, DO NOT REPLY TO THE MESSAGE and DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY OF THE INFORMATION THAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR.

Third, if something sounds too good to be true then it probably is.

When you get an email like this forward it to

You can find more information about phishing scams at

I hope this helps.