i have been sent a message by global mobile promotion that my cellphone no won me a 32000 pounds prize with a ref no and to claim my prize i must contact agent greg spencer on a cell no from 8-30 to 5-30pm. so i contacted him, he told me to send him via cell message, my e-mail address, cell no, id no, ref no and he contacted the london branch and a MRS LES WHITEHEAD VERIFICATION DIRECTOR FROM LONDON UNITED KINGDOM sent me a cell message AND AN E-MAIL that my prize has been confirmed and is due for realease, and is ready for a transfer into my acc. so i contacted mr greg spencer in south africa and he recommended that i buy a telkom voucher for R200 and i should send the recharge pin no to him. so i did what he told me to do. thereafter i received a cell message an e-mail FROM MRS LES WHITEHEAD with a document from BARCLAYS BANK stating the amount of R32000 pounds that i won and that i must send them my bank details. so i proceeded. he phoned me to tell me that my prize has been realeased and it will passes on to the acc no which i provided to them, but i told him that is no monies in that acc.lastly i received an e-mail and a cell message stating that i need to pay a certain amont in to a account for the bank charges and transfer duties, and he will need my fax no to send me the details into the acc the monies must be deposited and thereafter i must fax through to him the deposit slip and the monies will be realeased into my acc, so he fax the details to me and he phoned me after faxing and asking me that i received the fax and to proceed to deposit the monies into the acc but i told him that i have a brother who is a criminal lawyer and he(my brother) is looking into this matter because is to good to be true, and he put his phone down. i did not deposit the monies into that acc.

I have just received an SMS saying " Congratulations! Ur number was among the lucky winners onthe Global mobile yearly Promo, U won R175, 000, ticket NO: 019K Call MARIA MOKHO. This must be a scam.

Even though there is RIKA, these scams still get through on the MTN service? That bugs me most.