I received an email today from a WILLIAM GERRI. He states that i won some lottery and he apparently works for Yahoo.
2006-11-23 06:19:19 · 6 answers · asked by star 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
scam........leave it alone.....and do this....forward the email to mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com
Or you may also wish to report the phishing email to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by forwarding it to spam@uce.gov.
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2006-11-23 06:31:53 · answer #1 · answered by Rickard 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. it's a scam. Delete the thing and give no personal information. You did not win anything.
After all, you did not enter any Yahoo lottery, did you? No, you did not.
2006-11-23 11:16:23 · answer #2 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
me too received a mail i think it is fake because i had never register to any lottery on yahoo till now how can i win prize?
2006-11-23 06:23:56 · answer #3 · answered by harish b 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is a phishing scam! It is not from Yahoo. You shouldn't be opening mail from unknown sources. I hope for your sake that you didn't provide any information / or any response at all!
2006-11-23 06:22:57 · answer #4 · answered by love2travel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
emptor caveat, go back about one hour in questions , some girl had a real nasty expierence with that, lost all her email
2006-11-23 13:06:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
y.b: not sure, i dont think so
2006-11-23 06:20:09 · answer #6 · answered by yus_barrett 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋