Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:00:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: "YAHOOLOTTOWARD WILLIAN"
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Subject: Congratulations!! Your Email Has Won
To: echil_bocals@yahoo.com
YAHOO LOTTERY INC
Yahoo Lottery Incorporation
Barley House Harold Road
Sutton, Greater London United kingdom
Hello Madam/Sir
We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of One million US DOLLARS ($1,000,000) from 28th of April 2007 lottery win promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTORY INC every month.
YAHOO, collects all the mail identity of the people online yahoo messenger and among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are Congratulation you for having been one of the people selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM:
You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of
Claim., Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Yahoo
Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 7 days from date of Draw
Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed
within this period will be forfeited.
These are your identification:
numbers.......................
Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number.......................Lwh35447
Winning number...................Lwh09788
These numbers are your winning identification numbers, that you will
send it to your claims agent, Rev.mark
(email:revmark@mail2web.com) for identification.
You are therefore advise to send the following information to the
Claims Agent to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund.
1.Full name :
2.Contact Address:
3.Telephone Number:
4.Marital Status:
5.Occupation:
6.Date of Birth:
Congratulations!! Once more.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr Willia,.
Cordinator:YAHOO LOTTERY INC
Congratulations!! Your Email Has Won
2007-05-03 17:53:30 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
These things are never legitimate. Don't send out any bank or personal information, it's only a scam.
2007-05-03 17:56:49 · answer #1 · answered by Joy M 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I get those all the time. The first thing to do is contact yahoo or do a search just to see if they have contest like that. Go to yahoo and type in contest. It'll give you a list of different contest and once you scroll down to find out if its it go see if you could find lottery. If you don't find it you are being scammed and its will be good to let Yahoo know about it.
2007-05-03 18:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't get anything for nothing, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information. Just google scam and see how many hits yoou get, there are millions of them and they are all aimed at taking your money.An excellent site giving advice on how to recognise and avoid scams is at www.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/wm-lotto.html Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.
2007-05-04 02:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The e-mail is real. The scam is real. Why would somebody give you a million dollars for a contest that you never even heard of or entered anyway.
It's an empty bait for foolish greedy fish.
Also don't beilieve that some forgotten Nigerian prince [who doesn't really exist] or African pastor you never heard of wants to send you thousands of dollars from frozen accounts.
2007-05-03 18:00:21 · answer #4 · answered by krishna 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am both sceptical and highly suspicious. Never heard of any Yahoo Lottery. Extreme caution. You are being asked to give personal details to complete strangers who may just turn out to be gangsters who are identity thieves.
BEWARE! Contact the help desk at Yahoo!
2007-05-03 19:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you didn't enter it is most likely a scam. Even if it is legit foreign lotteries are illegal in the US and can lead to big trouble come tax time. Treat is as spam and delete it.
2007-05-03 18:04:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be honest its probably best to ingore this email,i have never heard of yahoo doing anything like this so beware,the next email you will probably receive from them is asking you for your bank account details so that they can lodge the money for you when in fact they probably will withdraw all that is in there.. hope this helps Steve
2007-05-07 00:29:55 · answer #7 · answered by vlf126 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1st - Never Reveal Personal Info to all Unreliable Site/E-Mail
2nd- Money will never drop infront of your door.
3rd- Only way to get moner = Earn It
2007-05-04 01:30:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course its real....everyday i hear of losers.....who in hell would give you money out of the blue....sharpen your witts my friend....did you really have to ask !!! If someone wants
to send unsolicited mail to you why would they want your personal info? SCAM Fill the details they want with fake names etc *if everyone did this it would make these scam merchants very irate!!!!
2007-05-03 20:31:50 · answer #9 · answered by gary k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well done ! Send the money and get your lottery win immediately.
2007-05-03 18:01:24 · answer #10 · answered by golfgirl 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋