Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:30:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Alice Dudia"
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Subject: From Yahoo Awards Center, Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: budas31@yahoo.es
Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB - United Kingdom
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Eighty Four Thousand, Five Hundred Great Britain Pounds (GBP84,500) for the month of January, 2007 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO AWARDS & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
Stated below are your identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2006234522
PIN: 1206
These numbers fall within the England Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him;
Agent Name: Mr. Good Martins
E-Mail: agentgoodmat@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447031842821
You are advised to send the following information to your Claims Agent to facilitate the release of of your fund to you.
1. Full name...............................
2. Country..................................
3. Contact Address......................
4. Telephone Number...................
5. fax Number.............................
5. Marital Status..........................
6. Occupation..............................
7. My Date of birth.................................
7. Sex.........................................
Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in services,
Mr. Good Martins
+447031842821
Yours in service
Mr Ashley Forest
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WARNING!
Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim.
You may also receive similar e-mails from people potraying to be other Organizations or Yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, Kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.
Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned.
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2007-04-25 08:47:17 · 35 answers · asked by vladimir e 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
its a scam by the same people who do the "uk national lottery". Dont fall for it.
2007-04-25 08:50:55 · answer #1 · answered by Hunny&HotLuvaLuva 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello
It is a scam that originated from a Yahoo email address some four months ago.
Please observe the following:
Yahoo will never ask you for your personal details. Yahoo already collected what they needed when you created your account, and it's held in a safe database.
Yahoo and Windows Live Mail would never work together.
The email is really informal
It's from France, do you use the French Yahoo ?
It is a scam.
Please report and delete.
All the best
Moose
2007-04-25 08:52:48 · answer #2 · answered by Chεεrs [uk] 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, that's all a big fraud. Each one of the pieces of information they ask for can be used as a figurative 'wedge' to get more info:
1. Full name.............................
2. Country..........................
3. Contact Address......................
4. Telephone Number...................
5. fax Number...........................
5. Marital Status...........................
6. Occupation.......................
7. My Date of birth............................
7. Sex..............................
If they have your full name, country, addess, phone number, they can sign up for stuff in your name. If they know your occupation, that helps add even more detail for them to sign you up for fraudulent stuff. Date of birth can be used in a lot of ways by identity thieves, when combined with stuff like your name, SSN#, address, phone number, etc.
Looks like they are trying the reverse psychology, too. They do that stuff with banks and credit card companies, too: "Kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body." Basically another way of saying, "If you don't want this great deal, delete it and pass it up for somebody else to get". Problem is...there is no prize, there is no money won, there is not 'great deal'. They try to steal your identity and/or find out your account numbers. Once they do that...no money would be "deposited". On the contrary, they'll draw all they can out of your bank account. So....the only thing I'd heavily advise following is their sarcastic and fake announcement to make their e-mail appear legitimate: Kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.
Delete it...and even better, hit the "SPAM" button in your e-mail account to help keep you and other people from getting that same dumb message posted all over the internet.
2007-04-25 09:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by sls.spec 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scam!!!!! That message is both a fake and an outright fraud. Don't contact the phishers and give them any of your personal information at all. Spam that scam message straight into oblivion right away. This is one lottery you'll never win because it's "bogus." Another thing, the phishers telling you to "keep this lottery information confidential" would indicate to you not to say anything about this to anybody until they have finished scamming you.
2016-04-01 07:00:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! THIS IS A SCAM! Your first clue would be:
WARNING!
Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim.
They don't want you calling the cops. Anything from the UK is not good. My sister got scammed bad so please don't reply to that email. Also report it to Yahoo. I'm sure they would want to know that someone is pretending to be them.
2007-04-25 08:56:37 · answer #5 · answered by HMMMM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if it is true you are screwed.
Check this sentence in the last paragraph:
"WARNING!
Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim."
Too bad, you won 84,000 pounds but you are now disqualified because you told everyone.
Just kidding.
This stuff is never legit. The bottom line is, unless you signed up for it, it is not legit.
2007-04-25 08:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scam Scam Scam
2007-04-25 08:50:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Scam.
There's also 2 different names in it:
Yours in services,
*****Mr. Good Martins
+447031842821
Yours in service
*****Mr Ashley Forest
2007-04-25 08:56:10 · answer #8 · answered by matthewc772001 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
oh sweetie, if it sounds too good than it is.
not to mention the "warning!" at the bottom. total scam!
I've received many of these and if they were real I'd be rich...actually I wouldn't be because I would NEVER give my account number to anyone other than my parents.
2007-04-25 08:56:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Scam.
2007-04-25 08:50:31 · answer #10 · answered by hgherron2 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋