Vodafone — Lottery Scam Call: +92 Code Number | |||
I received a call from [protected] on my phone number today. I was told that the call was from Kirti Nagar, Delhi Vodafone office and that I won Rs. 25 lakh in a Vodafone Lottery. He gave me the number of his "supervisor" in Worli, Mumbai office whose name was one Brijesh Balaji ([protected]). I was suspicious at the first call itself as the code was of Pakistan, but I still called back. I am stating a detailed account of my conversation because this might be helpful for others from getting caught in such scams. The so-called Balaji told me the lottery was nation-wide with prize money ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 50 lakhs. I kept inquiring about their genuineness and he said the lottery numbers had been flashing on TV for the past three days and they finally called me as they didn't receive any response to their TV flashes. I asked the TV channel and they said it was shown on Sahara One at sharp 9:30 pm. I asked if I can get details of the lottery on the Vodafone website or through Vodafone Care and he said the results were fresh and so they won't get updated anywhere yet. I asked why is this a Pakistan code and he said this was a routed number to their server and wasn't an international call. But it was evident that the call charges were according to ISD rates when I hung up. "Balaji" asked me my account number so that they could transfer the prize money. I said I will collect it from Vodafone office but he said this was not possible as the money would be dispatch from a separate server or something like that. He finally gave me the option of giving my address so they could drop the cheque instead. I said that goes fine since I would have given my office address. He has told me to call tomorrow morning at sharp 9:00 am. I even asked "Balaji to give me an alternate number of Mumbai since the network was hard to get through but he denied to give any personal numbers. I told him I will call him tomorrow morning at 9. I obviously won't. But if someone at Vodafone is listening right now then please check the numbers that I mentioned and inquire into this issue. This is a serious issue where our personal numbers have been accessed from Vodafone database and we are receiving calls from Pakistan. If anything, I might get into some serious trouble as I consistently was in conversation with some unknown Pakistan number at 9:30 in the night and even spat out Rs. 120 on those calls. Please note that both the callers were conversing in Hindi, which was very fluent and sounded local. Hoping for assistance from Vodafone since I observed other complaints with exactly the same issue. Paranjoy (I will share my Vodafone number personally if requested by Vodafone) Was this information helpful? | |||
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Dear Winner...
This is to inform you that you have won a
prize money of seven hundred and
fifty thousand Great Britain Pound
Sterlings (£750, 000.00) for the month of
JUNE 2009 Lottery promotion which is
organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC.
We congratulate you for being one of the
five person selected You are to contact the
events manager for claims These
are your identification
numbers: Batch
number...YM
09102XN Reff
number...YM35447XN
Winning
number...YM09788
How ever you will have to fill and submit
the informations below to the
events
1. Full name...
2. Contact Address...
3. Age...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Sex...
6.Occupation...
7..State:...
8.Country...
9. Your Reference and Batch number at the
top of this mail:
{CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER}
Name: Mr.David Mark
E-mail: [protected]@hotmail.com
This is to inform you that you have won a
prize money of seven hundred and
fifty thousand Great Britain Pound
Sterlings (£750, 000.00) for the month of
JUNE 2009 Lottery promotion which is
organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC.
We congratulate you for being one of the
five person selected You are to contact the
events manager for claims These
are your identification
numbers: Batch
number...YM
09102XN Reff
number...YM35447XN
Winning
number...YM09788
How ever you will have to fill and submit
the informations below to the
events
1. Full name...
2. Contact Address...
3. Age...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Sex...
6.Occupation...
7..State:...
8.Country...
9. Your Reference and Batch number at the
top of this mail:
{CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER}
Name: Mr.David Mark
E-mail: [protected]@hotmail.com
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Unknown — lottery scam
Dear Winner...This is the mail I received from '[protected]@hathway.com' on 5th july, sunday. It seems harmless, but its a scam after all so I am repoting it, hoping something will be done.
This is to inform you that you have won a
prize money of seven hundred and
fifty thousand Great Britain Pound
Sterlings (£750, 000.00) for the month of
MAY 2009 Lottery promotion which is
organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC.
We congratulate you for being one of the
five person selected You are to contact the
events manager for claims These
are your identification numbers:
Batch Number...YM09102XN
Reff Number...YM35447XN
Winning Number...YM09788
How ever you will have to fill and submit
the informations below to the events
1. Full name...
2. Contact Address...
3. Age...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Sex...
6.Occupation...
7..State:...
8.Country...
9. Your Reference and Batch number at the
top of this mail.
{CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER}
Name: Mr.David Mark
E-mail: [protected]@hotmail.com
sahara one channel — froud
sir,my name is Ashok Kumar, in 2006 when the channel goes to digital, then they collect to Rs. 5000.00 DD to me. he said me they send a set top box by currear but till date they did not sent any set top box. and not return my DD. I have sent many written complain.they are not answer any complain. Please susess me.what can i do.
Ashok Kumar
Vill& PO- Barakot
Distt.Champawat (UK)
Mob. [protected]. [protected]
Unknown number calls — Asking to deposit money for prize
Sir, i am contionously getting phone calls and sms from this phone no. [protected] to deposit money Rs 9800 rupees and to get prize money and also to provide account details so that money can be deposited in our account.Requesting to take approriate action againest this phone no. Hi..This side Puneet Ahuja from Faridabad, Haryana. I got a same call from same no.s. Thanks for sharing Paranjoy...
Exactly similar thing with me today.I got cal from [protected] and other story is exaclty same.Person who picked up phone names himself as Kiran Kumar sharma.and then he gives other number and a 3 digit lottery number stating that If I cal the other number [protected] which will be picked up by Brijesh Balaji.When I ask the address form he is calling.Reply was Mumbai fort Office.address of office is New Delhi, Mumbai..
I was taken a back for a moment he told the address.
Initially I dint notice it was ISD.I thot it was sum landline.But after keeping phone when I saw the number I was really afraid since it belonged to Pakistan...Some days befor e I recieved an SMS from some Internatinal no. +[protected] and asked to call back on this number, saying"Hi honey.. I am missing your lovely voice, lets share some lovely moments. I am waiting for you"
I guess someone has hacked the numbers from some common system.
As long as issues like terrorist misusing the numbers doesnt happen..Its ok.. Unnecessarily common public is the one who will suffer..
I was taken a back for a moment he told the address.
Initially I dint notice it was ISD.I thot it was sum landline.But after keeping phone when I saw the number I was really afraid since it belonged to Pakistan...Some days befor e I recieved an SMS from some Internatinal no. +[protected] and asked to call back on this number, saying"Hi honey.. I am missing your lovely voice, lets share some lovely moments. I am waiting for you"
I guess someone has hacked the numbers from some common system.
As long as issues like terrorist misusing the numbers doesnt happen..Its ok.. Unnecessarily common public is the one who will suffer..
similar case with me as paranjoy.got call [protected] at 10:51 which was a missed call..
on calling back, .a person impersonating as a vodafone rep from South ex-1, lodhi road said that you have won 10 Lacs as a vodafone lottery and you need to call his supervisor, Vijay Kumar in Bandra at [protected] at 11:03AM...
On calling this number, this guy wanted to know my bank account number details...Being suspicious about the whole talk, I asked their office location...as per him, they were from South Ex-!, Lodhi road in Surya Market..he was not able to tell me the exact address and was hellbent on me just sharing my account no...
By then I had realised the no being a pakistani no and this was a major scam happening...It seems that vodafone database is hacked and customer's info is freely available to all and sundry which is really a huge worrying sign. Once i googled it, I can see many people fleeced in various cities...Hope Vodafone realises this and keeps a check.
on calling back, .a person impersonating as a vodafone rep from South ex-1, lodhi road said that you have won 10 Lacs as a vodafone lottery and you need to call his supervisor, Vijay Kumar in Bandra at [protected] at 11:03AM...
On calling this number, this guy wanted to know my bank account number details...Being suspicious about the whole talk, I asked their office location...as per him, they were from South Ex-!, Lodhi road in Surya Market..he was not able to tell me the exact address and was hellbent on me just sharing my account no...
By then I had realised the no being a pakistani no and this was a major scam happening...It seems that vodafone database is hacked and customer's info is freely available to all and sundry which is really a huge worrying sign. Once i googled it, I can see many people fleeced in various cities...Hope Vodafone realises this and keeps a check.
Hi Folks
I just had similar experience.
The caller said he was calling from New Delhi, when I told him the number flashing on my phone [protected] was not from India, he tried to spin it off as call from a computer.
I got suspicious and asked him to give me a landline number so that I could call him back to confirm. Immediately his language became rude and I hung up the phone.
Then I checked the internet and sure enough there are many others with similar complaints.
Thanks for your post Paranajoy et al
Cheers
Arun Kumar
I just had similar experience.
The caller said he was calling from New Delhi, when I told him the number flashing on my phone [protected] was not from India, he tried to spin it off as call from a computer.
I got suspicious and asked him to give me a landline number so that I could call him back to confirm. Immediately his language became rude and I hung up the phone.
Then I checked the internet and sure enough there are many others with similar complaints.
Thanks for your post Paranajoy et al
Cheers
Arun Kumar
Vodafone Mobile Co — call with isd code +92
Hii,today ,15th Nov 2011, tuesday at 14:01 pm, i receieved a call from [protected]. It came to my knowledge that call is from pakistan. Although i missed the call, but i am concerned about how did the calling person got my number. I would appreciate it if you would look into this matter.
regards,
vaishali Gandhi
[protected]
Hi Folks,
I had a similar experience. Addition to all the story he asked us to keep the phone switched off till 10:00 AM as they are working on the SIM and configuring it for the award.
He then called back to check if phone was switched off. Obviously, I didnt recieved the phone this time.
Thanks,
Andy
I had a similar experience. Addition to all the story he asked us to keep the phone switched off till 10:00 AM as they are working on the SIM and configuring it for the award.
He then called back to check if phone was switched off. Obviously, I didnt recieved the phone this time.
Thanks,
Andy
Today morning at around 7:30 AM, I got a miss call from[protected]. Later when I called back, the person was talking about some lottery and was saying that I have won 25 Lac(In hindi ). So I thought it's a prank or something more... so I disconnected the call at 41 sec. And Rs. 10/- was deducted from my account.. Please inform what is the location of this number as I think it's a ISD number may be Pakistan.
Vodafone should clarify how these people are getting India's Vodafone number...
Vodafone should clarify how these people are getting India's Vodafone number...
Hi All,
Same thing happened with me some 10 minutes back and i googled it and thanks Pranajoy and all for making me aware.
But on the same site there is another guy who has written that these guys asked him to pay 15K for some processing fees and then again asked for 25K so i dont really think its a security threat. This is obviously a new trick to fool people.
Or by the mobile company to make u do more ISD calls.
Thanks,
Kushal
Same thing happened with me some 10 minutes back and i googled it and thanks Pranajoy and all for making me aware.
But on the same site there is another guy who has written that these guys asked him to pay 15K for some processing fees and then again asked for 25K so i dont really think its a security threat. This is obviously a new trick to fool people.
Or by the mobile company to make u do more ISD calls.
Thanks,
Kushal
Yes Pranoy, I got a similar call, asking for my account number.I think thers guys are hired by their local cellphone companies to lure international customers into spending call time with their networks. Anup G. S.
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