If you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
A stupidly implemented deception probably sucking you into one of those "free gift" CPA promotions requiring you to sign up to about 13 different products, trials, samples, etc. with little chance of actually qualifying for the $1000.
Scam
SCAM
Best Buy has warnings about this scam both on their website and in their forums.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Privacy+Poli...
http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/t5/BestBuy...
It's also been reported on the news all over the country. It's an identity theft scam
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/...
http://www.bbb.org/us/article/text-messa...
http://www2.wsls.com/news/2012/dec/04/te...
These same criminals also use the names of other legitimate retailers including Target, Walmart, Victoria's Secret, Starbucks, Abercrombie, Gap, etc all running the same fake gift card scam
NEVER respond to these -- they are all scams
If it were real you would have gotten a phone call. You can't enter giveaways without it, they wouldn't just use email.
Don't reply they are just trying to get personal information.
got a text saying my number was selected to win 1000 gift card to Best Buy from an email account "janamoss0013@bbgiveaway.net" tried searching it up and nothing i think it is any suggestions?
