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received text for winning firefox competition - is it real?

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Reneeha
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I received a text just a minute ago saying 'Good News! Your phone number has won 750,000 GBPounds in the Mozilla Firefox Phone No. Draw in the UK, To claim, email us only at: mozillasms@live.co.uk' Is this a hoax?

I received a text just a minute ago saying 'Good News! Your phone number has won 750,000 GBPounds in the Mozilla Firefox Phone No. Draw in the UK, To claim, email us only at: mozillasms@live.co.uk' Is this a hoax?

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This is known hoax as a similar earlier one was mentioned in http://blog.gerv.net/2011/08/hoax_mozilla_firefox_online_promo/

Just giving more information to help show it is not real.

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Sorry, that is a hoax. Mozilla doesn't have any contest like that going on.

James
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This is known hoax as a similar earlier one was mentioned in http://blog.gerv.net/2011/08/hoax_mozilla_firefox_online_promo/

Just giving more information to help show it is not real.

Hasan
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Please report misuse of the Firefox trademark in websites using the Mozilla's Violating Website Report page and in emails by forwarding them to Mozilla's abuse email.