Scam or not

[Tulip]

Apparently, my friend won a big prize from this:

http://www.royals.hk/eng/default.html

See 1st heading under notice.

Do you all think it's a scam or not? I'm personally hearing alarm bells.

[Dreadnought]

The address looks suspicious. There is no South Hong Kong unless they mean Southern District. The street name is very Mainland China. Could not find this building on either Centamap or Landsearch.

With these expensive prizes, you'd think they might have an address that can be found on a map.

Verdict: Bogus.

[Flat Hunter]

The building doesn't exist on YP either. Agree with shakermaker - scam

[bookblogger]

Very odd... it may just be an auto-translate though, which always use Mandarin pinyin.

[Load Toad]

Sh1te web site, no such building, no such address, no such company turns up on Google but similar named companies in other countries do. The telephone numbers look like the number that come up on ID when you get a f' cold sales call.

WhoIs:

Domain Name: ROYALS.HK
Contract Version: HKDNR latest version

Registrant Contact Information:


Company English Name (It should be the same as the registered/corporation name on your Business Register Certificate or relevant documents): ROYALS INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLING GROUP
Company Chinese name:
Address: 2TH FLOOR, NAM HO BUILDING,SHANG HUAN YUNGLO STREET 148 , SO HONG KONG 110421
Country: CN
Email: [email protected]
Domain Name Commencement Date: 20-09-2009
Expiry Date: 20-09-2010
Re-registration Status: Complete
Name of Registrar: HKDNR






Administrative Contact Information:


First name: ROYALS INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLING
Last name: GROUP
Company name: ROYALS INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLING GROUP
Address: 2TH FLOOR, NAM HO BUILDING,SHANG HUAN YUNGLO STREET 148 , SO HONG KONG 110421
Country: CN
Phone: +852--30623300
Fax: +852--30623300
Email: [email protected]
Account Name: HK2380645T


Technical Contact Information:


Last name: GROUP
Company name: ROYALS INTERNATIONAL TRAVELLING GROUP
Address: 2TH FLOOR, NAM HO BUILDING,SHANG HUAN YUNGLO STREET 148 , SO HONG KONG 110421
Country: CN
Phone: +852--30623300
Fax: +852--30623300
Email: [email protected]


Name Servers Information:

NS7.01ISP.COM
NS8.01ISP.NET

Wouldn't trust it as far as I could spit it.

The address is just made to look like it is in HK.

That Post code may be 'Shenyang 024 110000'

[bookblogger]

They've given a mainland postcode but a HK address, so I guess it is scammy. I wonder why the domain name registrar would accept that.

[lionrock88]

scam: fake? - AsianFanatics Forum

[Load Toad]

Man - Asian Fanatics certainly has some 'special' posters.

[arashikage]

I don't think any companies in HK are allowed to do lotteries sale except Hong Kong Jockey Club.
HK is very conservative and they don't offer licenses to any companies to operate anything with gambling contents.

So, if you see anything like that in future related to Hong Kong, just ignore it.
If it's a offshore lottery, I don't think you should waste any time upon it.

[Load Toad]

It's a scam. F it off.