they contacted me and said that 5 email addresses were picked and I won 950,000 british sterling pounds
2007-10-10 02:06:39 · 2 answers · asked by elaine forester 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet ➔ MSN
It's fraudulent
You shouldn't open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.html )
However, in this case since you have already opened up this email which is a probably a variant of the 419 Nigerian phishing scheme, display all headers and send it to Fraud Watch International. The email address is in the link to the webpage below.
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/lottery/
There are a couple Yahoo pages dedicated to the 419 Fraud
Yahoo Lottery Fraud
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-63.html
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/abuse-110240.html
2007-10-10 02:12:38 · answer #1 · answered by MLM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't give them your bank account numbers!
It's a scam.
2007-10-10 02:12:37 · answer #2 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋