good morningyahoo help desk i reacived an emil form yahoo mail that i have win a prize on the 7th birth day o

Question

Dear Mustafa Oli Ahammad,
For Security and Personal Identification purposes you will be required to present at least one of the following valid personal identification documents during delivery of prize to your address/location:

1. International Passport
2. Driver's License
3. Occupational Identity Card

Please note that information on identification document must match personal information provided to VeriSign® during Digital Notarization.

Winners of major prizes may also be required to supply a photograph for publication and/or take part in further promotional activities (optional).

Donate 5% (US$475) of your prize wins of US$9,500 to the assigned charity organization AHIP* (email: [e-mail]) to guarantee the delivery of your prize to your address. Yahoo! does not and will not deduct the 5% from prize won (The United States Federal Lottery Laws prevents Yahoo! from directly deducting the 5% donation from your prize).

The Yahoo! Attorneys guarantees FedEx delivery of your prize after your donation has been sent by you.
*All Charity Organizations selected by Yahoo! to receive donations are trusted clients of Yahoo! Inc. regardless of country of location of the Organization.


Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Mail Team

Answer 1

It is a scam! Just type in scam into Y! Answer and you will see thousands of these questions. They just want your money! Delete it! Yahoo runs no contests!!!

Answer 2

Yahoo! doesn't run a lottery -- see the links below for a lot more info on Yahoo Lottery scam emails...

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.

This is the first one I've seen that required you to donate money to charity before your prize is released, but it's still the same story: SCAM.

Answer 3

Forward the email to yahoo's TOS dept. (I'd tell you how but I use AOL, that evil entity). If you can't figure out how to do that just go to Yahoo's home page and use the email link to contact them. Actually type in Yahoo.com and do not, I repeat, DO NOT use any link that the email may have. Forward the letter to Yahoo from their site. They will contact you within a day or two at the very, very most.

It sounds like a scam to me. It screams like a scam to me. Companies like Yahoo take scams like this extremely seriously. If you forward the email to them they will actually investigate it and take whatever action they can against it. If for no other reason send it to them because they are in a better position to do something about it than we are.

Whatever you do you must not give out any personal information, heck, just to be safe don't confirm even your first name! No real company (respectable or otherwise) will ask for any personal information. No real prize will come with the expectation of any donation (it is, actually, illegal).

Send it to Yahoo. If you get any other prize or whatever send that email to the actual company by typing in their actual address or URL (to get the link to their email).

I once got a letter from, allegedly, PayPal regarding a concer about someone stealing my identity. I ignored everything the email had to say, went to PayPal's website by typing in their URL, no copying and pasting (it can look the same and official but it'll be some scammer) and forwarded the letter to their TOS dept. PayPal wrote back informing me that it was not from them and that they were looking into ways to catch the scammer.

I've a brother in the internet industry. I was doubtful that PayPal actually cared but he assured me that companies like that (and this) do care as it directly affects them in so many ways. They do actually go after scammers and apammers as much as they leagally can.