Yahoo Mail in conjunction with the Rediffmail gives members random cash prizes as their Beginning of the year Draw Today, your account is randomly selected as one of the 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Three Hundred Thousand British pounds sterling(£300,000) for the month of January/Febuary lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger.com every month .Yours Sincerely Dr WILLIAM GERRI (PHD) LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR The Yahoo.com staff
2007-02-06 11:51:37 · 12 answers · asked by raja_200120022003 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Yup, one more of that Nigerian scams, I suppose.
I've got a dozen of the euro million lottery letters confirming that I have won millions of Euros.
Well, you know what, I threw them in the rubbish.
2007-02-06 11:58:00 · answer #1 · answered by angstrom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You do not respond to this. Thousands of these spam messages are sent every day, and all it takes is one or two answering, which gives the spammer your actual email id and address. There is no such thing as a Yahoo internet lottery. There is no free money. there are no prizes. Put this in spam along with the others you will probably receive. Just keep putting them in spam.
2016-05-24 01:13:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a scam its called a 419 scam by email. Google it. There is lots of info on the fake yahoo lottery.
2007-02-06 12:23:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WATCH OUT ITS A SCAM.
If you dont believe so, play along with them. At some point they are gonna ask you for money. Why would someone ask for money if they wanna give £300,000 to you?
2007-02-06 11:54:54 · answer #4 · answered by mo_blade 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you set your Yahoo Mail, in General Preferences, to display full headers, when you get legitimate e-mail from Yahoo, it will indicate that it is from Yahoo and not a scam.
Rather than responding to this, I suggest you set Yahoo to display the full header of this e-mail, then select the header and the message, (don't click on any link) copy -- then go to Compose, and send it to www.reportphishing@antiphishing.org so they can shut it down.
2007-02-06 11:58:44 · answer #5 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you have is a 419 scam
2007-02-06 11:58:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ITS A BIG SCAM !!! its been going on for a while and once they get your personal info they steal your identity, don't fall for it. YAHOO DOES NOT RUN A LOTTERY, NEVER HAS...NEVER WILL...check their help section if you don't believe me.
2007-02-06 11:56:04 · answer #7 · answered by ?! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dream about it. It is a scam.
2007-02-06 11:54:41 · answer #8 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i really dont think that exists
its a scam.
2007-02-06 11:54:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are about to get ripped off
2007-02-06 17:22:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋