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From: YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT PROMOTION
[mailto:webmailsender321@bellsouth.net]
Sent: March 22, 2007 6:43 AM
To: webmailsender321@bellsouth.net
Subject: You Have Won The Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows Lottery Of £500,000
Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road Sutton,
Greater London SM1 4te
United Kingdom.
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings (£500,000.00) for the month of March 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from date of Draw.
2007-03-21 18:58:36 · 9 answers · asked by Kayu 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Report it as spam. Yahoo people get that all the time. You need not do anything about it personally..Just report it as spam so that they will not be able to send you an email of that nature again using the same email address..=)
2007-03-21 19:03:17 · answer #1 · answered by WAHMaholic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many Nigerian scams that are showing up nowadays. Please read the following carefully:
Another new popular scam is the lottery 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!
2007-03-23 02:26:22 · answer #2 · answered by Guerrilla M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely a Hoax - Yahoo and MSN are competitors not partners and Microsoft doesnt need to run a lottery to make money! Anything like this would be accompanied by a phone call if it was the real thing.
You could alert MSN, Yahoo and Microsoft, but I hardly think they will bother doing anything about it. Just dont follow any links and delete it.
2007-03-22 02:03:05 · answer #3 · answered by FlowerGirl 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have seen a few dozen of these. yes it's a scam. report to yahoo and also microsoft. really you don't need to because they are already flooded with emails about this.
2007-03-22 02:02:04 · answer #4 · answered by gas_indycar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scam. Total scam. Report it to your email service so they can block it at the mail server.
2007-03-22 02:03:06 · answer #5 · answered by justdennis 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
total scam, as for reporting i believe bbbonline.com is a place to report
source http://scamsbeware.com best wishes
2007-03-23 14:05:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got that, too, but I won one million dollars. I just deleted it.
2007-03-22 02:01:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is a scam, delete such mails,mark it as spam
I do not think anyone can take any action on those people as they may be from uganda,nigeria ,etc
2007-03-22 03:29:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
FORGET IT,,,SCAM
2007-03-22 02:01:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋