Is this a scam?

In My Humble Opinion
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I just got an e-mail from some website (am I allowed to mention the name?) telling me I’ve won an X-box & 5 games. I don’t think I’ve ever been to the site, but it looks like it’s a place where you sign up yourself (and anyone else whose e-mail you have) to be in monthly drawings for prizes like the one I (may have) won. I’ve looked around on the site, and they mention that I have to pay shipping & handling, but they don’t say how much. However, that could be because the site is static while the prizes seem to change. Anyway, there is a link in the e-mail to a page (supposedly) confirming that I’m me and a code that I need to type in. I have not yet clicked the link - just in case. They said I’d need to enter my address so they can send me the prize, and they admit that they sell their info, but I think I can accept an increase in junk mail for a while - it’s a pretty good prize. What I’m mostly concerned about is how they will expect me to pay shipping. The e-mail says to click within 72 hours (I got it sometime on the night of 11/13) and it came to my Bulk (spam) mail folder with the subject “You’ve won a Microsoft X-Box.(This is not spam)”. It was not obviously sent to anyone else, but other addresses could have been in the ‘Bcc’ line for all I know. My e-mail account is with Yahoo and I don’t know how their spam filter works. What should I do? Can I post the website and see if anyone has dealt with them before?

Thanks,
R

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SCAM

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They’ve got to pay for those X-boxes somehow. Put yourself in their shoes. Would you just give away $200 game systems to strangers unless you were getting something valuable in return?

I would suspect that is done through charging you a ridiculous amount of shipping and ‘handling’ charges, then selling your information to a ridiculous number of spammers and junk mailers. Obviously without seeing the web page or knowing anything about the company it’s difficult for anybody to make a determination of whether it’s a scam, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

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Well, while the website is different than merge’s snopes link, the e-mail text is almost word-for-word. Add dream-giveaway.com to the list. Thanks, everyone.

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I’ve just looked at that link, and while I see how someone would click on the link “Oh, free X Box!” I can’t believe ANYONE would actually give out their card details AND PIN!

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People do or these things wouldn’t work. Scary huh?

Putting the rest of it aside, the fact that they want money screams scam even if the rest didn’t look questionable. If you win a prize, shipping should be included.

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The moment they ask for the PIN is the moment you run away, screaming.