Yahoo!!! Mail announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Coporation program held on the 17th of July, 2007 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 511-01555176-208 with Serial number 5000/03 drew the lucky numbers: 16-8-10-16-25-9, which subsequently won you the lottery prize in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of GBP£1,500,000.00 (One million five hundred thousand Great Britain pounds) in cash credited to file C/9080118308/02. This is from a total cash prize of GBP£45 Million , shared amongst the first Thirty (30) lucky winners in this category
2007-07-23 18:40:17 · 27 answers · asked by sudhic78 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Don't spend all your winnings at once............!-
2007-07-23 19:49:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely any email you get like this is fake, almost everyone seems to be affected by them and for some reason there are always the gullible ones who fall for it and end up losing a lot of money. The chance of you receiving a genuine email relating to winning anything on some lottery youve never heard of is probably about a million to one, they are all scams.
2016-05-17 05:23:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no Yahoo or Internet Lottery, it's a scam.
I used to post links to the debunking articles about this, but I've seen so many questions about this absurd "Yahoo Lottery" that I don't bother anymore. The people posting clearly can't be bothered to type two words into a search engine, or read the links Yahoo brings up when you try to submit a question about it.
Here's a link to a Yahoo Question from a guy who fell for the scam:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070723050443AAyXXFW
2007-07-25 03:10:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cant for the life of me understand why Yahoo doesn't stop this sort scam email going through its mail server's, surely its not rocket science to block them by ajusting the filters
and why are they not reporting the senders to the police ????
2007-07-23 18:52:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did you bought any lottery ticket? Let me guess: now they just need you to give them your. ss number, credit card number, plus they want you to pay for some "paper work" before they can send you any money.
Wake up!! Nobody wins "Internet SURPRISE lotteries". That's a very old scam.
2007-07-23 18:49:02 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's a scam. They'll either ask you for a modest "fee" before you can claim your award, or ask for your bank information so they can transfer the funds directly, and then they'll clean out your account. Anytime someone tells you that you won a contest you didn't enter, be skeptical.
2007-07-23 18:44:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just delete the information immediately from your e-mail its a load of rubbish, "scam" i keep getting them also and "requests" to give me large amounts of money from people in South Africa.
2007-07-23 18:59:56 · answer #7 · answered by Russell B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are the people who continually ask this question daily a big bunch of total retards ?
Of course it's a scam you retard.
2007-07-23 18:45:58 · answer #8 · answered by golfgirl 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
SCAM!!!!! Just contact Yahoo directly, not from any links in the email you received. They will tell you for sure.
2007-07-24 19:26:39 · answer #9 · answered by samj530 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you buy a ticket?
Every lottery, anywhere in the world requires you to buy a ticket FIRST.
No ticket, no money...
2007-07-23 18:50:17 · answer #10 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Total scam I'm afraid. DON'T reply.
2007-07-23 22:21:29 · answer #11 · answered by Mike 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋