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"MIKE DENISON" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FROM YAHOO!!!!
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:09:47 +0100 (CET)
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You won $1,500.000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!
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CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $1,500.000.00!

Dear ,

I am happy to inform you that you have been selected as one of the lucky winners in the YAHOO INTERNET MONTHLY RAFFLE DRAW. The price money you have won is the sum of U.S $1,500.000.00
Yes, its for real, as many people would ask, and you are among this months six(6) lucky winners, as this raffle draw is organized only once every month, and the criteria for nomination and winning is that the prospective winner must be among those online as at the time of selection. The method of selection is by electronic ballot system operated by and manipulated by computer, hence, there is no chance of selfish manipulations by humans in this raffle programme.
Your winning reference numbers are as follows:
WINNING NUMBER: 00005E
CODE NUMBER: 23109222
BATCH NUMBER: 06/05/046
Yahoo decided to establish this programme as a way of thanking there numerous customers/subscribers for there unalloyed support and loyalty to the Yahoo Network. As a result of this loyalty, Yahoo Internet Network is the biggest and mostly subscribed network around the globe, thanks to Yahoo customer support.

To begin to claim your fortune, email our raflle support agency with the following email address: [e-mail] Please, endeavour to quote your reference numbers in all correspondence.You can also contact Dr. Frank Ben on this number:[phone].



Congratulations once more!!
Yours Sincerely,



MIKE DENISON (PHD),
ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com


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Answer 1

This is spam. Look at the senders address and the domain is not coming from Yahoo!. Also probably on your actual email, the link to yahoo would direct you to a fake site, where they would steal your identity. Hope this help

Answer 2

There is no such thing as Yahoo Internet Monthly Raffle Draw

Answer 3

In addition to all of the above, Yahoo would not spell "program" the way it is spelled, endeavor is misspelled, and raffle tickets have to be purchased. Did you buy a raffle ticket from Yahoo?

Answer 4

real spam! too salty nah, I just ignore the email spam

Answer 5

Yeah, baby! It's real! Just like Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Great Pumpkin! You lucky person, you!

Answer 6

Generally they are spam. Many hours are wasted due to spam email. However, by taking simple precautions while giving out your email and installing updated free software, you can prevent spam. More info available at
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Answer 7

i got this from another person that asked the same question and this answer was voted best
I get these daily!!!!!!!!!

I also get "dying people", saying they want to make a 'deathbed repentance', etc., who want me to take over many millions for benevolent work.

I must admit, I have been caught twice already on these ... and be careful, as 'benny' says, they try all sorts of angles to get your sympathy.... and they usually begin by asking insurance costs and conveyance fees.
For most, these are usually only a few $100, but psychologically, they know that once you send that first bit, you are basically locked in. Then they ask for $1,000s, in taxes and clearance fees, etc.
Before you know it, you have likely paid tens 1000s!
Be very careful and avoid them!

I had one poor fellow ring me up and say he had already lost $150,000 to try and get one of these!!
But that was not the worst of it; he had lost his house, his wife, his family, his business; it's just not worth it!!
THEY ARE CRUEL - THESE THINGS!
AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!


In addition, I also get daily invites from individuals saying they want me to stand in for some dead dude, usually worth about 20 million or 40 million, etc.

The biggest I had by far, was only 3 weeks ago - claiming he had 1.35 Billion!!!!!!!!!! in the name of some dead Middle-easterner!! from before the War.

I just told this guy that that amount in the hands of anybody - especially if he used a Middle-easterner to stand in as Next of Kin for this dead person - is potentially dangerous for me and you and for all our families and grandchildren!!


Generally though I just send this, in answer, and never get them bother me again:

PLEASE FORGIVE OUR AUTOMATED RESPONSE:

OUR COMPANY RECEIVES SO MANY REQUESTS DUE TO ITS ENORMOUS PROFILE THAT OUR SYSTEM IS NOT ABLE TO COPE AND RESPOND APPROPRIATELY WITHIN NORMAL TIME FRAMES - ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE ENORMOUS DISTANCES FOR OUR SIGNALS TO TRAVEL.


IN EFFECT, YOUR MAIL HAS BEEN AUTOMATICALLY DETECTED BY OUR SYSTEM AS ONE, "OUTSTANDING", SO WE TAKE THIS MOMENT TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INAPPROPRIATE DELAY ON OUR PART AND ANY UNDUE INCONVENIENCE WHICH THIS LACK OF COMMUNIQUE MAY HAVE CAUSED YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION.
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Answer 8

Haha, dude, just look at the source address. Does that look legit?

Answer 9

Sounds like spam.

If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

Answer 10

Try to get Spam protection and it probably is.