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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:59:03 -0800
From: "Yahoo Online Lottery"
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Subject: **Yahoo Congratulate You For Being Their Lucky Winner In February**
You won $500,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!
Messenger
YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY
CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU WON $500, 000.00!
Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($500,000.00) for the month of FEBRUARY, 2007. Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com every month.
YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo messenger, and other email addresses. Five winners are selected every month through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you as one of the winners for this month promo. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.
Furthermore, your details (e-mail address) falls within yahoo Afro/Asia regional office in west Africa, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of $500,000.00 will be released to you from this regional office in West Africa.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers..........
Batch number.......................Lwh 09445
Lotto number........................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447
To begin your claims, kindly contact our the Yahoo Regional Office in Lagos-Nigeria with the informations below
Contact Person|:
Name|: Rev. John Wana
Email|: afroasia_regionaloffice @yahoo.co.uk
awardsdirecto@justicechambers.net
Tel|: |+234-802-474-3290
1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10.MARITAL STATUS
11.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12 THE MONTH YOU WON........................................................
As soon as you contact the him, she will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this 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 taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr WILLIAM GERRI
AWARDS DIRECTOR.
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2007-03-02 11:30:09 · 13 answers · asked by srdeboever@prodigy.net 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
I have got countless emails such as this and they are all variations of an age old scam! Miss, there is no Overseas Lottery International, YAHOO & MSN Lotteries, Yahoo online dept., UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish Lottery, Yahoo Lottery Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. While some people might only copy and paste such email to their answer with a brief take on it, I will go into detail because I'm tired of this trash, as several of my friends have lost their a$$es to this scam. This is about as far away from legitimate as anything can get, whether it be a contest, promotion, or whatever.
There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades.
The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. If you even reply, you risk having your email inbox flooded. If you call these people, expect to be harrassed over the phone at all hours of the night! In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings in Nigeria are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy.
By the way, I have kind of become an anti-scam activists due to the fact that I have many friends who have had their identities and life savings stolen from them via these methods.
This is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question.
If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud. You can also read more about this at www.secretservice.gov and www.419eater.com!
If you have lost money you should report it to the U.S. Secret Service at www.secretservice.gov
Now you know the basics of Advance Fee Fraud, a multi-million dollar industry that costs honest people their life savings everyday. Be happy you weren't duped by this scam!
I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!
2007-03-04 17:20:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both...It is a REAL SCAM.
No one is giving you money online when you never even signed up for anything. No one is giving you money for forwarding email. And you won't get an Xbox/Playstation/Ipod/BMW for shooting a target in a web ad.
2007-03-02 19:45:05 · answer #2 · answered by SingleMalt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
SCAM! First clue should be that words are spelled wrong. Then again if you didn't catch it maybe you are a winner.
2007-03-02 19:39:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ekse yo!!!
Forward me the email.... i will personally check if it is a scam or not... sounds and looks like a scam. I am the only one who is willing to find out for you so pleeeeeeze...
You know you can trust me man...
2007-03-02 19:35:40 · answer #4 · answered by Mac-C 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
SCAM!!!! Don't do It!
All of it is Fraud....
they say: if it's too good to be true then it's NOT TRUE!
Never give your personal information to anyone...
2007-03-02 19:38:22 · answer #5 · answered by Just me! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SCAM. They will want you to send them money that you will never see again.
2007-03-02 19:41:13 · answer #6 · answered by eks_spurt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To you and everyone else who asks this question, if you have to ask, then it is a scam.
2007-03-02 19:34:49 · answer #7 · answered by Gene M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say fake -
Yahoo NEVER ask for your password and sex and age etc..
If you do not remember entering something it is fake.
2007-03-02 19:34:02 · answer #8 · answered by Chεεrs [uk] 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, that's a scam.
2007-03-02 19:33:57 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know I would probably fall for that. lol
2007-03-02 19:39:03 · answer #10 · answered by Livin it 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋