As I have many letters that I won the British Yahoo! Lottery Is this true?

Question

Yahoo! Lottery Results You won £1,500,000 Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!


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 GBP£1,500,000.00 (One million five hundred thousand Great Britain pounds) in cash credited to file C/9080118308/02. This is from a total cash prize of GBP£45 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 GBP£1,500,000.00 (One million five hundred thousand Great Britain pounds) would be released to you by our verification unit / payment center in UK as stated by the Yahoo Coporartion .

Subsequently,Our verification unit will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds to you as soon as you make contact with them. All participants were selected randomly (Electronically) from the 'World Wide Web' site through a computer ballot system and extracted from over 100,000 company addresses. This promotion takes place annually. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claim is processed and your money transferred to a designated bank account of your choice. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

PROCEDURES TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.........YBN 09945
Lotto number.........YLN 09946
Winning number......YWN 09947

Yahoo™s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:


Verification Unit: Mr.Ford Kuller / Mrs.Tracy Brown
Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]
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Note that all claim process and clearance procedures must be duly completed early to avoid impersonation arising to the issue of double claim. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please quote your reference/batch numbers in any correspondences with us or our designated agent.

Transfer Modality:
The Yahoo Online management has informed that winners funds should be strictly on telegraphic bank transfer and they are made responsible to bear the responsibility that will aid the transfer process of their funds to their various local designated bank account.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of Yahoo Lottery Corporation UK.

Yours Faithfully,


Mr.Anderson Mason
ZONAL CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.co.uk http://www.yahoo.co.uk



Yahoo! Lottery Results
Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! registered user.

Answer 1

No, even if you get this email 50 times it is still not true.

There is only one lottery in the UK and Yahoo! have nothing to do with it.

Yahoo! do not randomly give money out to random people just for the sake of it. They never have, and I doubt they ever will. It's not a very smart business practice.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It is a scam! 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!

Answer 4

You should learn to be street-wise. This is a classic scam that most everyone knows about by now. Its been going on for quite a few years.

I'm a little surprised you have not heard about it. Google the word "internet scams", and you'll get a lot of hits about current scams proliferating on the internet.

Read, and be wise.

If a sucker ( yes, that's what they are! ) responds to the email, they will be asked for their bank account information, and asked to send money to pay for the "fees" associated with getting the money to you.

Once the sucker sends the money, the wiring connection is established, and the crooks proceed to empty the bank account.

Answer 5

OF COURSE IT ISN'T TRUE !!!!!!!!

- Yahoo do not run lotteries
- You do not win lotteries out of the blue (especally those you do not enter)

Its a scam they either want you to ring some number (at £15 per min) OR they want you to part with your bank details.

Answer 6

No, this is a phishing scam. There should be a / after the .UK, ie; Yahooblahblah.co.uk/ Somebody wants your mail login.
Go to this URL;
http://uk.security.yahoo.com/protect-your-privacy/avoid-phishing-scams.html
& follow the guidance there.
You can find this from your yahoo mail page by looking at the security->phishing links on options

Answer 7

Yahoo do not, never have, and never will run any kind of lottery. Period. If you would like your bank account emptied and/or identity cloned then go right ahead and speak to these clowns. Before you do however, please buy some of my magic beans. I need the money! :-)

Answer 8

It's a total scam.

Answer 9

Yeah right about as real as little green men, martians, alien abductions and father Christmas!

Answer 10

If you believe this junk, I have a better deal for you....I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge for a damn good price????