mdh_toms,i got a message from yahoo lottery,is it true there is lottery pls send me madhu?

Question

Dear Winner,

YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 1st Oct, 2007 from the YAHOO! International Lottery Program. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses, your e-mail was attached to ticket number 47061725 07056490902, serial number 7741137002 . This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the First category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum of US$1,000,000 .00(ONE MILLION DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$50,000,000.00(DOLLARS) shared amongst 50(Fifty) lucky winners in this category.

All participant were selected through a sorting and filtering program designed by
Dr Philip Emegwali from 50,000,000 (fifty million) e-mail addresses from the web because you have once visited one of Yahoo! sponsored sites. This is part of our internatio

Answer 1

It is a scam.

Ok, here are the details. They send out those emails to millions of people at once. In the email, does it actually use your real name? Odds are it does not. These guys send them out to millions of emails because it does not cost them anything to do it. Maybe 100 people will respond. That is a response rate of .01%. However, since it costs nothing for them to send the emails, it will be worth it. They convince 10% of those people to go with the scam and get 10 people to fall for it. Those 10 people will each pay a few thousand and the scammer walks away with maybe $30,000. Not bad for a weeks work.

The scam works in different ways.

#1. They tell you that you need to pay an upfront fee before you can get your money. Maybe it is for taxes or fees or processing or something. They may even tell you it is for bribes because you are not technically supposed to win even though your name was drawn. They take the money and run.

#2. They tell you that they will send you a check and that you need to cash it and send them back all or part of it. You will be sending to them a few thousand dollars. They will want it wired to them. Once again, it will be for fees, taxes, and/or bribes. You do as told and deposit the check. A few days later the bank makes the money available to you and then you send off the money. A few days after that, the bank informs you that the check was bad and that you need to give them the money back. But you just sent it to these raffle guys. You see, the bank is required by law to make the money available to you after a certain number of days even if the check has not cleared. You are stuck owing the money.

#3. The scammers want your bank information so that they can put the money into your account. They get you to give them everything they need to empty your account. They may even then try to use your account for other illegal deeds that they are committing. When the police come looking for the bad guys for those deeds, they come to your door. You will probably not be arrested because they will probably understand, but this is still a big headache to deal with.

#4. They want your personal information. They need your SSN, birthdate, mother's maiden name, and all of that good information that will be needed to steal your ID. Then guess what they do. They steal your ID. It does not stop there. They turn around and sell all of the information needed to steal your ID to people around the globe.

#5. Any combination of all of the above. Why stick with only one trick? Do them all and be pulling money in from all angles.

You are best off to ignore these guys. There are some people out there who like to respond to them and waste the scammer's time. I would not suggest this. You don't want to slip up and accidentally give them some information that they can use.

Answer 2

Please please stay away .. these mails are 100% SPAM.

A simple test to know whether the mail is Scam or not i s check the domain from where it is sent. These mails usually come from normal Yahoo/hotmail/MSN etc.. ID's , which means some person creates such fake mail and sends it to millions of users, in the view get some people fooled.

Also, do not reply to these messages, instead just "report as spam" .

Answer 3

1. No one...absolutely no one who is nigerian will have a name like crawford or seltzer. 2. Instead of blaming nigerians...why don't people think how stupid and greedy they are for making money deals online.. 3. although not all nigerians are scammers (this person could very well be Ghanian because a lot of them come to Nigeria to perfect their scamming skills) this is definitely a scam !

Answer 4

It is a spam mail. Daily lot of people got this mail like you!

Answer 5

It is a scam. Do not succumb to it. Just safely trash it.

Answer 6

dear friend,
stay away from all these types of e-mails.
few days back i received one of same type and found to be bogus.

Answer 7

remember what your mother told you?

if it's too good to be true it probably is?


same thing here....total scam

Answer 8

SCAM

Answer 9

I dunno, but it sounds too good to be true...