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Yahoo!!! Mail announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Coporation program held on the 5th of January, 2007 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 511-01555176-208 with Serial number 5000/03 drew the lucky numbers: 16-8-10-16-25-9, which subsequently won you the lottery prize in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBPฃ1,500,000.00 (One million five hundred thousand Great Britain pounds) in cash credited to file C/9080118308/02. This is from a total cash prize of GBPฃ45 Million , shared amongst the first Thirty (30) lucky winners in this category.
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Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in UK (www.yahoo.co.uk) as indicated in our annual play coupon conducted by the Yahoo Coporartion UK. In view of this, your GBPฃ1,500,000.00 (One million five hundred thousand Great Britain pounds) would be released to you by our verification unit / payment center in UK as st
2007-02-19 16:16:52 · 15 answers · asked by Raynoo P 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
Yahoo do not run a lottery, several thousand people have received the same email as you today. When you contact the office you will be asked to pay a 'courier fee' or give your bank details, you will then either lose the fee or have your bank account emptied. Think about it Yahoo are giving away 45 million pounds and aren't advertising it?????????? You can be sure that if the company ever runs a competition or a lottery giving away a hundredth of that as a prize it would be all over the home page.
Have a look at these
http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=6303
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_scam
2007-02-19 20:36:49 · answer #1 · answered by 'H' 6 · 0⤊ 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
2007-02-20 01:17:13 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam i've received a few like this the last one claiming to be from bmw saying that i had won a bmw worth about £150000 and £1500000 in cash.In the email address you get to reply your details to i sometimes send them an email saying "how f*****g stupid do you think i am you bunch of f*****g tossers.
Also you can usually tell if's its a scam from the emil address you have to reply to cause if this thing was a real set up the addresses to reply to would not be a yahoo or hotmail or something like that it would be a proper buisness one.
2007-02-20 06:26:59 · answer #3 · answered by Paul R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A) the English is completely wrong so it is suspicious
B) no lottery would ever ask you to pay up front to recieve winnings
C) Yahoo! mail don't run lotteries
D) its a scam and there are hundreds of similar ones out there.
DO NOT give these people money. youll never see them again.
2007-02-20 00:21:17 · answer #4 · answered by n b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SCAM!!!!!! Just delete it. I have gotten like five of those over the last week. Australia, Irish, British, German & Nigerian.
DO NOT SEND THEM ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION!!!!!
Follow this..... IF you didn't enter....How can you win????? Besides, why would these places ask for your age, occupation, sex, etc.
BE ON THE SAFE SIDE DELETE THEM!!!!!
2007-02-20 00:32:49 · answer #5 · answered by More Lies & More Smoke Screens 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with what the other person said. And one thing to point out is I think yahoo is based in california.
2007-02-20 00:24:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its a con - I had one, looked at it, laughed & sent it to the recycle bin.
IF SOMETHING IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE (like winning a fortune from a lottery that you did not enter) IT IS PROBERBLY IS.
2007-02-20 15:33:05 · answer #7 · answered by David 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a scam. Do not respond to it - delete it. Under no circumstances give them any personal information or payment.
2007-02-22 02:31:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should contacy Yahoo to check it out. I think it's the only way.
2007-02-20 05:47:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
scam. yahoo! doesn't do lottery stuff. and if you don't enter a lottery you can't win one.
its someone in Africa phishing for accounts and money
2007-02-20 00:25:30 · answer #10 · answered by Kevy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋