YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY
CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU WON $800.000!
Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Eight Hundred Thousand Us Dollar ($800,000)Batch number.....................Ab/673-740/01
Ref. number.......................56/73-99/76A
Winning number...................15806
To begin your claims, kindly contact the Bank of England Judiciary Agent Name : Dr. Mark Cole Sebastain, Phone no;+44 70457 25318( from Monday to Friday ) email address ( claimsagentmarksebastain@yahoo.co.uk ) You are required to forward him with the following details:
Brian Hunt (PHD),
ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com
Mr Philip Clark (Dispatch Officer)
Courier Global Express
Victoria House 144-146 Beddington Lane Croydon CR0 4TD
United Kingdom
2007-06-03 04:40:00 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
It's all real, and I am King Henry VIII.
2007-06-03 13:43:29 · answer #1 · answered by Wildamberhoney 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo! is not a lottery, it does not run a lottery, nor is Yahoo! in the habit of giving out money to people at random, for no apparent reason. Especially when that person has never entered into such a lottery or contest in the first place. In case you are unfamiliar, here is how a *real* lottery works. You pay 2$ for a ticket. thousands of other people pay $2. The proprietor skims XX% of the revenue, and pays the rest to some ticket holder at random. If you don't pay the $2 to enter, you don't win(, and you can be reasonably confident that you won't win even if you did enter......) In the ridiculously unlikely chance that you do win, usually they will send you a check in the mail, once you produce a winning ticket. They won't charge you "taxes," "legal fees," or "processing fees," &c., or if they do, it will automatically be deducted from the prize money beforehand. Use a little common sense, or when in doubt, contact the authorities. ~W.O.M.B.A.T.
2016-05-20 01:13:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What an amazing offer first contact. your move next. If money was your motive for giving answers on yahoo then money will be the hook drawing you into deeper waters off the island you are now stranded on, you must be stranded somewhere right? well that is called the island. the Internet and body of water surrounding your reason to question and even to answer. has now become international waters and so the story goes. stay on your island and build your palace there and live happy ever after.
2007-06-03 05:06:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh! DER!!!
Does this sound too good to be true?? YES?? Well it more than likely is.
Use your brains here, come on >>>
For Goodness' sake, I dont know how often you are in Yahoo Answers but its not that long ago that they were looking to get ideas of what to give us for answering these flippin questions.
Items such as a pen; a mug; a tie pin; a badge; a medal; a mars bar; .... there may have been a cash one mentioned... hang on, its coming to me,,, err ummm tutt oohhh ,,, It might have been a £2 book token...... but NOTHING LIKE $80000000 not even 800 PENCE!!!
Come on get real.... you wasted 5 points askin this..... Ah Well
2007-06-03 07:49:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Course it's bloody bogus. Are you stupid? Ask that directly to Yahoo customer services. It won't take them long to tell you that they don't give away money for nothing.
Aside from anything else, if they did they would announce it to the world because their profits would go throught the roof as everyone signed up to them just in case they landed a big cash bonus.
2007-06-07 01:38:31 · answer #5 · answered by Beastie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you ask Yahoo? You must have a phone number that's not on that lottery notice for Yahoo. If you really think this could be real. I would suggest you turn off your computer and buy a CB radio.
2007-06-03 05:41:38 · answer #6 · answered by Mister Bald 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It looks like a Con to me, especially with the email claimsagentmarksebastian. Also, they have given a mobile number.
2007-06-03 04:44:15 · answer #7 · answered by Matt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I got that email too. I wonder how yahoo can afford to give $800,000 to so many thousands of people?
2007-06-05 12:03:19 · answer #8 · answered by Karinda T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this has been on yahoo answers before. its a scam, and dont download anything from the site as u'll end up with a virus of ur computer
2007-06-03 04:50:49 · answer #9 · answered by cuddles 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I got one of these this morning, bin it, block it, they'll still come back but treat them all the same. It's a scam to get your bank details!
2007-06-03 04:48:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like a scam to me. The sender wants to get your personal info.
2007-06-03 04:57:05 · answer #11 · answered by catsmeowjrk2000 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋