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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:29:55 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE WON $250.000.00USD OF 2006/2007 YAHOO E.A.A.S LOTTERY INC
To: mrs_nazima_abu@yahoo.com
Euro. Afro Asia Sweepstakes Lottery Inc.
Customer Service,580 N.Tenth Street, Sacramento, CA 85914,
An Affiliate of Charity International.
Arena Complex Km 18 Route de Rufisque, I.P.P Award Department,
Amsterdam Holland.
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($250,000.00) for the YEAR 2006/2007 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 into.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arrange and gather all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, and others we only select FIVE (5) 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 Asia Indonesia due to we have 3 lucky winners in Asia so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our Asian 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 of (14 days) will be forfeited.
These are your identification numbers:
These numbers above fall within the Asian agent's Location file, you are requested to contact him and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to him;
TO FILE YOUR CLAIM PLEASE CONTACT:
BARRISTER .OMAR HASSAN.AND CO, CHAMBER
E.A.A.S Inc.Asian Fiduciary Agent.
barrister_omar_hassanchambers@yahoo.com
Tel:+62- 85691673163.
You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund by our affiliate bank or our appointed courier delivery companies
Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him immediately:
NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote all your winning numbers in all correspondences with your claims officer. Do not reply any other mails like this on net, as they are a lot of scam artist out there pretending to be us. You may see mails like this do not reply. Do contact your claims officer ( barrister omar hassan and co chamber).At once you will be asked to provide some details to enable the office proceed with your winning certificate and file keeping.
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of Microsoft Cooperation to all our lucky winners this year. Thank you for being part of this promotional lottery program. Our special thanks and gratitude to Bill Gate of Microsoft and all his Associates for alliviating poverty round the World.
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WINNER'S PERSONAL DATA
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Fax No.:
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WINNING INFORMATION
File Number.: *
Serial Number.: *
Ticket Number.: *
This is to verify that the information filled in this FORM is a valid particulars of me. Yes: No:
Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
LOTTERY SPONSORS: CHIEF SPONSORS;
MICROSOFT CORPORATION UK, MICROSOFT CORPORATION AFRICA,
MICROSOFT CORPORATION USA, MICROSOFT CORPORATION ASIA.
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2007-03-31 05:35:13 · 20 answers · asked by reza t 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
It is obviously a hoax, anyone who is prepared to give out their bank details and other personal information are just asking to be ripped off .... bin it .... ... ....
2007-03-31 05:40:27 · answer #1 · answered by melark 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are many Nigerian scams that are showing up nowadays. Please read the following carefully:
I can guarantee you that if you listen to these punks you will lose every bit of money you have and never receive any prize money as such a prize does not exist.
Another new popular scam is the lottery scam:
Have you ever heard of identity theft?
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!
2007-04-01 00:58:27 · answer #2 · answered by Guerrilla M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definitely scam. These people just want to part you from your hard earned cash and will try every trick in the book. They sometimes ask you to call a premium rate number then keep you waiting while you rack up a huge telephone bill, which they then make a huge profit on. Delete this scam and sent it into cyberspace where it belongs, along with the scammers who are sending it. These people of out and out thieves.
2007-03-31 12:38:38 · answer #3 · answered by JillPinky 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Its definately a scam. Don't believe a word it says. My brother have gotten an e-mail quite similar to this saying we had won a lottery and should claim it. So has my co-worker recently. Tell your other friends so they wont be fooled.
2007-03-31 12:48:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam, delete it and don't send them any information. I got the same type of email but from Yahoo! UK. I replied to it asking why I need to send them my full name and address, but got no reply. I even emailed the customer service department of Yahoo! Canada and got no reply.
2007-03-31 12:45:00 · answer #5 · answered by Wolfmanscott 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Delete and ignore it its a scam to get your bank and address details! Ive had it to several times i just delete it without opening it!
2007-03-31 12:39:04 · answer #6 · answered by welcome2whereyouare 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I receive about10-15 such mails every day. I do not open it, just send it to junk or block sender. This is not problems faced by you and me , every one how are very active in Internet get such mails regularly. Even if you block, they appear in another format. Just ignore, do not open mails received from unknown source, more particularly do not open attachments.
2007-03-31 12:49:18 · answer #7 · answered by manjunath_empeetech 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
DON'T TOUCH IT WITH A BARGE POLE. It is a scam and will either cost you a fortune instead of winning it and might also cause you to get a virus.
2007-03-31 12:46:36 · answer #8 · answered by Ladyfromdrum 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey, Don't confirm your email... It's a spam mail. We all get them. You have not won $250000. You will probably even find that it hasn't been addressed fully to you. It's complicated to explain, but I can assure you that you havn't won $250000.
2007-03-31 12:39:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
As many others on this site are being advised. If you did not enter then do not answer as nothing is free in this world.
2007-03-31 12:56:41 · answer #10 · answered by alec A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋