CONGRATULATIONS!!!
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of THREE HUNDRED
THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($300,000.00) for the YEAR 2007 Lottery promotion which
is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO
BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onto.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arrange and gather all the e-mail
addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed
to All email Address, and others we only select Nine(9) candidates per
annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the
candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people
selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to United
kingdom due to we have 3 lucky winners in United kingdom so that you can be
cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our Location
Claim Agent on or before your date of Claim.
Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date
of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.
Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (14 days) will be
forfeited.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-360AF
Reff number........................YBM-EBS-710AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-718AF
2007-03-27 04:36:53 · 5 answers · asked by ANDRES J 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
It's a very common Internet scam. Yahoo! and Microsoft do not collect email addresses to give people $300K. What would be the point?
This email comes from a con person. If you contact them and provide them with personal information they will use it to rip you off one way or another. This kind of thing is how identity theft happens.
2007-03-27 05:08:15 · answer #1 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a scam , you can bet the next letter they will ask you to send x amount of dollars to release your winnings, that this is only a processing fee. Just email them and tell them to send you your money LOL! that is just like the one that was going around about Microsofts lottery theyhad real official markings just like microsoft. just remember if something sounds too good to be true it probably is! you can play with them if you want but don't send any personal info. and do not send any money if they send you a check don't put it in your account, they have also been sending people bogus cashiers check and you are suppose to send them cash back out of it western union or wire transfer, by the time your bank finds out it was countrfiet your bank account was debited that amount plus what you sent them.
2007-03-27 12:48:08 · answer #2 · answered by kissybertha 6 · 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.
Avoid.
2007-03-27 15:33:56 · answer #3 · answered by Sanjay M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's not legitimate and neither is any other prize that you supposedly win without filling anything out.
2007-03-27 11:47:39 · answer #4 · answered by charlie_the_carpenter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My immediate reaction is that it's fake. Why not contact Yahoo directly to find out?
2007-03-27 11:45:05 · answer #5 · answered by boris 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋