Yahoo Lottery
Incoperation
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United Kingdom.
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Nine Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars ($900,000.00) for the year 2007 Yahoo Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all email addresses of people online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Hotmail and other websites. Selections are made every year through electronic ballot System without the winners applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keepthis information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted persons taking advantage of this programme ----LIKE this way it is real one or some spam mail if any one know about this give ans...
2007-02-24 01:58:18 · 6 answers · asked by sri 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
A lottery scam is a variant of advance fee fraud (also know as a 419 scam). First, you (and thousands of other people) get a spam message stating that you could get millions of dollars -- in this case, because you won the lottery. If you believe the scammer and reply, he will charge you a fee before your winnings can get to you: this may be for having some documents notarized, or to pay the courier who's bringing your check, or to open a bank account, or international taxes, or any number of made-up excuses.
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 (and they sure wouldn't do it cooperatively with Microsoft if they did!) -- see the links below for a lot more info on Yahoo Lottery scam emails...
2007-02-27 00:39:37 · answer #1 · answered by Matti 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a SPAM for sure. Just think for one second how will you win a lottery if you never applied for that. Dont be fool and report that mail as a SPAM.
2007-02-25 16:52:50 · answer #2 · answered by pushker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i recieved similar mail but was for $8,00,000 nad other from UK online lotteryfor 2,50,00 pounds i even spoke to them on fone but seems fishy as both are asking to remit $2400 before they can relase my funds..i feel this is total scam and better to provide their telephone numbers to cyber crime..
2007-02-28 06:39:18 · answer #3 · answered by roger p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got the SAME ONE, it's spam
2007-02-24 10:44:32 · answer #4 · answered by La Flaca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a spam. i got "picked" too, and i googled it, and it was a spam. sorry about that.
2007-02-24 10:06:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
do not reply to those - they are scams to get your identity
2007-02-24 10:26:35 · answer #6 · answered by dreddful1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋