support centre in United Kingdom,please answer me is this real???? I will do anything in my power to give them in court if this a fake.
2007-03-26 22:36:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
Probably a hoax. Check it out at snopes.com
2007-03-26 22:47:52 · answer #1 · answered by putzer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's fake.
There are literally thousands of emails like this. There is not a day goes by when someone doesn't post a similar question on Yahoo! Answers. If they had all won Yahoo! would be bankrupt by now!
These scam emails typically want either some personal information or some money from you to process your prize. If you send them either, they will use this information to try to rip you off.
You can report the email address if it is something @yahoo.com or @yahoo.co.uk. That way they will close the account.
There is not a lot you can do to track the email. It's just some loser sitting in a basement somewhere who made up the email and is sending it out. He's probably masking his IP address and will be tough to trace. Even if you could find him, he could be anywhere in the world, including countries that couldn't care less about identity theft.
It's annoying, but probably the best thing to do is mark it as spam and move on.
2007-03-27 07:42:38 · answer #2 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo does not run a lottery. It is a well known internet scam. They will try to get money and/or personal information.
You can't win a lottery that you don't enter.
Good luck trying to get an anonymous scam artist from another country into court.
Just avoid. Mark as spam and move on. You'll get more of them.
2007-03-27 15:36:55 · answer #3 · answered by Sanjay M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look in the mirror. Sucker is written all over your forehead if you get caught up
with this. There are scams and hoaxes all over the place. These people have a
purpose--separate people from their money. You can't possibly believe this is
for real??
2007-03-30 23:43:53 · answer #4 · answered by Garnet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a lot, and I mean a lot of fraud that has come out of the UK. I would delete it and thank god you never sent them any money
2007-03-27 05:44:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I get them all the time, I would be a multi millionaire if they were all true. Spam them and move on.
2007-03-27 05:43:45 · answer #6 · answered by misty_51273 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LISTEN TO ME! THAT IS ALL BULL ****! I'VE GOTTEN LOADS OF THOSE FROM DIFFERENT PEOPLE ALMOST ALL SAYING THE SAME STUFF... MARK HIM AS SPAM AND DO NOT REPLY OR GIVE HIM ANY INFORMATION WHATSOEVER!!!! DO NOT!
good luck
2007-03-27 05:50:29 · answer #7 · answered by ... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i just won 800,000 from yahoo. its real deal
2007-03-27 05:56:32 · answer #8 · answered by Love Lee 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋