I just received notice I won Yahoo lottery, but Im not sure if it is real or just a sham. Can you please tell me how to verify
2007-03-05 03:08:29 · 26 answers · asked by Joy 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
It's definitely a scam. Besides, since when has Yahoo! ever run a lottery? Don't reply and please DO NOT give out any personal information. It can be used against you. With most email, if you don't know where it came from, it's not worth your time, and it often has the potential to be harmful. Don't reply to the message; just delete it.
2007-03-05 03:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by sparkly_chrimsa 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep, another scam.
A good indicator of scam is something promising you some money or something that you really want, but it came out of nowhere.
Greed is one of the major factors in scams. I am not talking about the greed of the scammers, I am talking about the greed of those being scammed. The scammers prey upon this greed to fuel people's desire cause them to fall for the scams. It happens all the time. These guys will send out millions of emails and maybe get back 1 or 2 replies. However, that is all they need.
What happens is that you will be told that you need to pay certain fees to cover taxes or something on your winnings. Then you have nothing to do but wait for you money. And that is all you get to do. Wait for you money because it never comes.
A variation of this is that they will tell you that you need to pay them certain fees and/or taxes. They send you a check and they tell you that you have to cash it and send them money back. Once that is taken care of then they will send you more checks. However, you cash the check and send the money and you hear nothing more from them. You do hear from your bank telling you that the check failed to clear (probably because it was stolen or was bogus) and that you need to give them back the money from cashing it. The bulk of which you sent to the people who promised you the fortune and is now long gone.
Another tactic they could use is to make you give them your bank account information. The scammers use this to hijack you account and use it for illegal purposes. At the very least, they will clean it out.
Another tactic is that they will get you to turn over all of your idenfication data for "security purposes". They will then use this for stealing your ID.
Also, scams will probably use a mix of these tactics, plus a few that have not been listed here. Scamming is an old game but it gets a new makeover on a regular basis.
Do not ever believe in easy money. If you do then you are going to make easy money for someone else. Sort of a they get the goldmine and you get the shaft type arrangement.
2007-03-05 03:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Contact Yahoo services without opening the link. and ask them to verify that it is real. As far as I know Yahoo does not have a lottery going.
It sounds like a scam to me.
2007-03-05 03:12:44 · answer #3 · answered by Aggy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100% sure it's a scam my brother also received two from different addresses.
If you haven't entered anything then it's a fake you don't get anything for nothing.or you can try emailing them or better still contact the legal lottery and they will tell you the answer if you are not sure. But contact the trading and standards office, I bet they will tell you there are hundreds receiving the same mail.
Sorry you are disappointed, but whatever you do don't go on a spending spree with your plastic card.
2007-03-06 05:17:20 · answer #4 · answered by alex winefly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo! have not got a lottery. Why could an American enterprise run a worldwide lottery that paid out in British Sterling, as damaging to US money? Why could they supply $2.5m to a great sort of persons each and each month? If Yahoo! fairly had to run a advertising like this, they could furnish plenty smaller prizes and nevertheless create a buzz. even nevertheless it could make no experience in any respect in favour of a enterprise to hemorrhage one in each and every of those money each and each month to random people. finally, why could a British financial enterprise use Jakarta to deliver out money? that doesn't make any experience the two. So yeah, it fairly is yet yet another faux lottery win.
2016-09-30 05:40:38 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo do provide lottery results. But I never heard them running one themselve.
Btw, have you bought any lottery from this so-call "UCan"? If not, then mostly it's a scam.
2007-03-05 03:15:30 · answer #6 · answered by Kuni Nama 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam. I see these questions on here a lot, and it is not real. People have to play a lottery to win a lottery, so please ignore it and report it as junk mail because that's what it is.
2007-03-05 03:12:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No need to verify. It is a scam. Just ask yourself if you have take part in any lottery contest. If your answer is no, then it is a SCAM.
2007-03-05 03:12:01 · answer #8 · answered by Cutebunny 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its a scam, and the way to verify is the think DID I BUY A TICKET if the answer is NO, then it's a SCAM. It's true, you NEVER get anything for NOTHING.
2007-03-05 03:32:09 · answer #9 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask yourself: have u ever taken part in the lottery?
Secondly, if they ask u to send money to them in order to receive the prize then it IS a scam
2007-03-05 03:11:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋