Nokia warns Nigerians against scam promos

MOBILE phone manufacturer, Nokia, has warned Nigerians against responding to emails and text messages claiming that they had won huge sums of money in alleged Nokia promotions. This has come in light of the growing number of reported incidents of Nigerians receiving text messages and emails from unscrupulous senders.The Managing Director of Nokia, West Africa, James Rutherfoord, said that the number of such scams had become worrisome. Most of the scam mails, he said, lured unsuspecting victims with the promise of huge sums of money usually in foreign currency.'Upon response, people are usually asked to pay a token amount as a processing fee or deposit before they can claim the money purportedly won. After the deposits are paid, the victims usually lose touch with the scammers as the phone numbers and email addresses used for the scam are usually discarded,' he said.According to him, Nokia as an organisation organised promotional activities for the purpose of rewarding consumers for loyalty and encouraging consumers to patronise the brand. However, some people have taken advantage of this in order to lure unsuspecting consumers into parting with their money. These messages usually come in when the person in question hasn't entered for any competition or promo.Rutherfoord maintained that Nokia did not ask for any form of payment in any of its promotions. He called on Nigerians to disregard any such mails or text messages, especially when they had not put in for a Nokia promo.
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