Wording of this email, how would you interpret it?

Morthoseth

Morthoseth

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You have been selected to win a pair of tickets to attend this year’s Golden Gods awards!

In order to guarantee your tickets, you must RSVP by email confirmation that you will attend the event.

The Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards 2008 are taking place at the “Indigo2 (02 arena)”, in London on Monday June 16th 2008. Please note that you are responsible for your own travel to and from the event, as well as your accomodation.

If you are sure that you can attend this event, please reply to this email with the following :
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Basically, a few months ago i put my name forward on the In Flames or Nuclearblast website to win tickets to the Metalhammer awards, and have just received this.

However, i cannot for the life of me tell if they are saying i HAVE won, or i have the CHANCE to win? Different part of the email seem to indicate parts of each.

I dont want to book the time off work to GUARANTEE my attendance, when i might only have a chance of winning, if you catch my drift!
 
If you are sure that you can attend this event, please reply to this email with the following :
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with the following what?

if it's

phone number

address

bank account number

Then I'd say scam
 
Its my address, post code etc that they are requesting, but at the bottom of the email they have quoted the exact entries i made when i first applied with that information, so if they already have it, it cant be a scam - surely?
 
surely if he's won then the email would start with

"Congratulations, you have won 2 tickets to this year's Gold Gods Awards ! "
 
Well my aunt, who lives with me and my family, is an internet security expert. I asked her, and she says this is a textbook example of a scam. I'm not so sure though, if it shows the entries you first applied with, then it must be them!
 
Moses99p said:
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I can't see why people are saying he might only have a chance of winning...

"You have been selected to win a pair of tickets to attend this year’s Golden Gods awards!"

looks fairly conclusive, no? It doesn't say "WIN WIN WIN, YOU'RE A WINNER. WIN WIN WIN (DID I MENTION A WIN?)", but to me it looks like he has won... just got to confirm, and be able to pay his own travel and accomodation costs..
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Selected to win
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He hasn't won yet.
 
I really hope you are right, as i would downright love to go!

I've done what would have perhaps been the most sensible thing from the start, sent an email to the woman who sent this one at nuclearblast.de

Fingers crossed :)
 
Raymond Lin said:
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He hasn't won yet.
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I'm pretty sure its saying he has one.

" you have been selected to win this car. however your friend was only selected to win this bag of chips " .. its saying that out of the applicants he was selected as the winner not that he has been selected as a potential winner.
 
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Scam. If they need your details, they'd give you a link to their site or a phone number to call.

Was there any Registration numbers or owt at the foot of the mail? (Tax Number, Registered Number, etc.)
 
They spelled accommodation wrong in the email. Definitely a Nigerian scammer.

Edit: Don't send them bank details (I can't see why you'd need to anyway). Why not just email the magazine to confirm if you're worried?
 
I doubt there's very many Nigerian scammers using the whole "you've won tickets to a death metal show!"

I'd say it's legit, and I'm very cynical about these things....congrats dude, I wouldn't mind going myself!
 
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