HI
I receive a mail from yahoo/msn lottery. I want to know if this is a fake lottery? please help me
Here is a part of the mail message i receive
My Best Regards
LAITH MUHAMMAD
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:05:59 +0100 (WAT)
Subject: YAHOO & MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS LOTTERY
From: "Yahoo/Msn Lottery"
Yahoo/Msn Lottery
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te,
United Kingdom
YAHOO & MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS LOTTERY
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money ofFive hundred
thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for the month of
Febuary, 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN
LOTTERY
INC & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO&MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of
the
people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to
Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our
winners through electronic balloting System without the winner
applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of
Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement
Centre.
Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 15 days from date
of
Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.Any prize
not
claimed within this period will be forfeited.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number.......................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788
These numbers fall within your Location file,you are requested to
contact EVENTS AGENT MANAGER,send your winning identification numbers
to them at this contact address below.
(CONTACT EVENTS AGENT MANAGER)
Mr Mac Fraiser
EMAIL: mcfraiser_claimsofficer01@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447774551734
You are therefore advised to send the following information to the
EVENTS
AGENT to facilitate them and process delivery of your winnings fund to
you.
NAME:......................................
AGE:.......................................
SEX:.......................................
ADDRESS:...................................
EMAIL:.....................................
PHONE:.....................................
FAX:.......................................
OCCUPATION:................................
STATE......................................
COUNTRY:...................................
NATIONALITY................................
Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in service,
Cordially,
Sign. Hariette Paulson
Online Co-ordinator
Yahoo/Msn Lottery
Sweepstakes International Program.
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2007-02-15 05:43:11 · 9 answers · asked by laithwhite 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
Its a fake so many people have posted this same question.
2007-02-15 05:46:37 · answer #1 · answered by richard_beckham2001 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look at the questions I have answered on this site in my info. There are so many winners there could not be enough money to pay them all.There is no International Lottery.This is a Nigeria scam. Yahoo/MSN, U.K. and Australian lotteries, football lotteries from the same counties, Global-Link, World Poverty, Microsoft, Free Lotto, which now seems to have it's own people answering gambling questions on this site claiming they have won which is a total lie, and hundreds more. I am a retired Police Officer that has years of experience investigating Internet scams and frauds. This is an old one. The common link to them getting your email is on line surveys. Yahoo does not give it's stock holders money away nor does it give it's email subscribers address's to lotteries. The only way to win in a lottery is to buy a ticket, if you didn't you could not possibly win. Here is the website of the 17 nation law enforcement task force that investigates cross border Internet crime. You may file a complaint there. www.econsumer.gov. Also go to www.ripoffreport.com and browse complaints and you will find many having the same doubts as yourself about these scams. Below is a typical scam and how they work it. They just go under a thousand different names. They are asking you to send a prepayment to collect your winnings and they want you to send it by a money wire service. Lotteries do not just pick your name out of thin air, and just so happen to have your email also. No Internet service provider gives their email list out to lotteries. If you did not pay to play you could not possibly win.
recieved letter of winning $65000.00 Pacific Player International lotteries,please contact claims agent miss linda strong at 204-951-7582. Second letter came with a check for the amount of $2,470.00 To deposited in my bank account for processing fee,a week later check cleared my bank. I contacted my claims agent over the phone she advise me to wire the balance of $2,341.00 to a Mr Edward Culwell in New York,New York.I called miss linda strong to advise her of the western union confirmation number,to date can not get in touch with linda strong just her voice mail, I know now that it was all a RIP-OFF and now Iam in the hole with $2,470.00 with my bank.... Please send HELP... THANK YOU VERY MUCH
2007-02-15 06:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, it's a scam. It is impossible to win a lottery if you did not buy a ticket. There is no such thing as a lottery of email addresses.
Yahoo! doesn't run a lottery (certainly not cooperatively with MSN or Microsoft!-- see the link below for a lot more info on Yahoo Lottery scam emails...
2007-02-16 00:38:52 · answer #3 · answered by Matti 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all realise Yahoo and MSN are not Lottery companies. they are into web and providing email and other web services to you. These emails are Big SCAM emails to lure you into big trouble inclusing identity theft. Please never respond to such emails. Remember without pain you never gain. Even for a lottery you need to purchase a ticket. or buy a product. Please keep yourself away from this.
2007-02-15 05:48:14 · answer #4 · answered by FC Arsenal Fan 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No it real.y is real, and if you just send me a small fee I'll tell you how to claim your prize.... All of these are scams that will require you to send a 'small' amount of what you won to the sender to 'claim' or 'process' etc.
2007-02-15 06:55:36 · answer #5 · answered by Elimister 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a scam - under no circumstances provide any personal information or payment. Simply do not reply.
2007-02-15 11:45:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's an online lottery it is a scam to get info.
Delete it
2007-02-15 05:47:10 · answer #7 · answered by wizjp 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
definitely fake
if something sounds too good to be true it usually is!
2007-02-15 06:09:28 · answer #8 · answered by tracyloveslfc@btinternet.com 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is so fake...
2007-02-15 06:23:21 · answer #9 · answered by woodmn7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋