this email is true or fraud tell me?

Question

The Msn/Yahoo Lottery Incoperation
PO Box 1010,Liverpool
L70 1NL,United Kingdom .

Dear Beneficiary,
Compliment of the day to you and your entire household,Your mail was recieved here on our desk and it's content well noted by me.
Do note as soon as your Charges there are garantee your winnning consignment will be Dispatch to your residence in india.
I think the Courier company has giving you a nice alternatives for your payment.
Henceforth if you are doughtful about this whole issue,kindly advise the courier company to allow you make the transfer of Payment either via Western Union Money trasfer nor Money gram.
We hope to hear from your end soonest,And wish you the best of luck.bye for now.

Best Regards
Mr.Elton Mills

Answer 1

SPAM!!! junk it

Answer 2

You must take urgent action NOW. See my warning about malware below.

If you have reproduced the email exactly as it's written then the grammar, spelling and generally atrocious English will indicate that it is spam.
Also, MSN and Yahoo are different companies so they won't run a joint anything - not even a "Incoperation", whatever that is.

This particular one seems to be indirectly asking for your account details.

You don't say what was written in the Subject bar (he bit of the email that you see before you open it). If it contains bad English and spelling then that is a almost certain guarantee that the email is a fraud.

MALWARE
You should never open these as they often contain "malware". This is a generic name for viruses, spyware, loggers etc. and which fires an instant return to the sender telling them that your emial address is 'live'. Sometimes they deposit a keylogger or other spyware onto your computer.

I'm not trying to scare you un-necessarily. These are real dangers. As you have already opened this one you should immedialtely go off-line and run a full virus scan. If you have a spyware program, such as Windows Defender or Spybot Search and Destroy, run those too.

These things must be deleted on sight. Never open them or reply to them.

Answer 3

1. Yahoo Lottery Inc.

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Hi
I received this e-mail yesterday from Yahoo Lottery Inc. informing me that I have won $100,000 US. The draw was on Sept 30 2005 and I have 30 days to claim my winnings. All I have to do is inform my claims adjuster "Tutu Brown" of my
1. full name
2. banking info
3. address
4. Phone number
5. marital status
6. occupation
7. date of birth

When i wrote back to Mr.Brown to ask him if this was a joke or a scam? He responded that Yahoo Lottery Inc was very popular and he is suprised that I have never heard of it. It seems that everyone who has a Yahoo account is entered in this lottery every month. He gave me this link to check things out. www.lottery.yahoo.com but guess what? the link does not work. I have forwarded these 2 e-mails to phonebusters. Yes I'm in Canada and the e-mails came from the UK.
Has anyone else received similar e-mails? I am trying to find someway to complain to Yahoo and inform them that someone is using their Yahoo Logo to try and defraud people but I am unsure as to how to contact Yahoo.

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How to tell if it's real

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Want to know if that "winning notification" you've received is real? Easy!

1. You can ONLY win a lottery you have bought a ticket for.
2. If you have actually won (that is, you have a winning ticket), you contact the lottery company - they NEVER contact you.
3. It is ILLEGAL for a lottery company to charge you a fee to collect your prize - it doesn't matter what they say the fee is for, no bone fide lottery can do this.
4. Check the email address it comes from - even if they say they are the UK National Lottery or some genuine sounding organisation, it will probably come from a free email provider like yahoo, hotmail or msn. Sometimes they spoof the headers to make it appear to come from somewhere else - the way to check the real return address is to click "reply" and see what comes up in the "to" line of the email. An easy way to check if it's a free email account is by going to www.dnsstuff.com - scroll down to the last box on the left and you'll see a box marked "Free email lookup" - enter the email address here and it will tell you.

Use your head.......

Answer 4

Definitely a scam. I work at a bank and see these all the time. The sentence structure is poor and words are misspelled. Here is a site that you may be able to report it to.

www.IC3.gov

Answer 5

It's a scam. I get them all the time - every day almost. Sometimes I read them for a laugh, but then I delete them. This scam has been ging on for a while

Answer 6

I dont know for sure but i think it is spam do the fact that i head a best friend of mine got in trouble with the law and it was something simiar to the issue,

I would look in to it, rearsch it and try to find clues and i would print a copy of the email and take it your local police department and let them look and tell you for sure, if they cant go the fraud dission of you area and let them look in to it and see what they say.

Answer 7

No doubt it's a scam. Bad spelling and very unusual phraseology. Report it as Spam

Answer 8

Quite frankly, I can hardly figure out what that jumble of words is even trying to say. Obvious scam.

Answer 9

Obviously SCAM!

Answer 10

Definite scam!

Answer 11

Definitely fraudulent.