Is there anything like Yahoo Awards Center, 124, Stockport Raod, Longford Raod, Manchester M60 2DB?

Would like to ask the authenticity ofYahoo Awards Center 124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB -UK

• I received a winning advise fro THE COORDINATOR Mr. Druv Matindale Yahoo & Windows Live Awards Center 124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB United Kingdom. Tel+44-7011131267 Tel:+44-7045728763 Is this a scam? He made me required to deposit 570euro at any Western Union here in the Philippines inorder for me to claim the prize that I allegedly won in the amount of 250,000euro before Jan 31, 2008. Your comment and feedback is highly appreciated. thank you so much for your help. I don't want to be deceived and be fooled about it. Email: [email protected]

• Answer:

  You are being scammed, there is no such thing as Yahoo Awards Centre, and the telephone number you have is a "find me anywhere in the world" forwarding number, so if you were to ring it, it would not be answered by anyone in England or the UK...see below for more details... "Scam phone numbers in the United Kingdom (+44): Most "419" scams using +44 70xx numbers involve emails that are sent from Nigeria and other West African countries, not from the UK! If you see a +44 70xx number in a 419 scam email it usually means you're dealing with criminals based in Nigeria. UK phone numbers starting with '70' are "Personal numbering" in the "Find me anywhere" range. Charges for calls to these numbers are not distance-dependent. They can cost as much as UKL 0.50 (USD 0.90) per minute to call and can forward the call to virtually any phone number in the world. Forwarding numbers can be set up for free and completely anonymously via websites such as uknumbers.com. In most cases when you call one of these numbers the phone that starts ringing will actually be a mobile phone somewhere in Nigeria, as the UK number has been programmed to auto-forward calls to another number. These +44 70xx numbers are used as a redirector service to obscure the fact that the person taking the call is not actually based in Europe. The UK number is used to lend credibility to the scam." http://www.joewein.de/sw/419-phone-uk.htm No lottery in the world would ask you for money up front and another give away is that in the UK we spell "center" as "centre" Delete the email and do not have anything to do with it.