How do you tell if you really won the yahoo beta lottery or is it a scam email sent to you.?

• Please register your mobile phone to activate this feature. Register your phone to receive a text message when you receive Mail from particular senders. Previous | Next | Back to Messages Call or Instant Message yahoolottery DeleteReplyForwardNot SpamMove... Printable View This message is not flagged. [ Flag Message - Mark as Unread ] From: "YAHOO LOTTERY INC" <[email protected]> Add Mobile Alert Subject: Your E-mail Has Won YAHOO BETA MAIL Award. Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:47:32 +0100 Yahoo! UK Ltd. 125 Shaftesbury Avenue London WC2H 8AD ATTENTION: CATEGORY "A" WINNER, This is to inform you that you have won prize money of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($500,000.00) for the NEW YEAR 2008 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onto. YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arrange and gather all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to All email Address, and others we only select Nine(9) candidates annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM This is to inform you that your Payment Approval File was sent to Africa due to we have 3 lucky winners in Africa so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our payment bank in Nigeria for your payment through ATM CREDIT CARD, this will be delivered to your address in your Location, so that you don’t have to travel to Africa to claim your Winning. Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (14 days) will be forfeited. These are your identification numbers: Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-360AF Reff number........................YBM-EBS-71… Winning number...............YBM-EBS-718AF These numbers above fall within the African payment Bank Location file, you are requested to contact your payment Bank and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to the bank; SKYE BANK OF NIGERIA PLC at his email: E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +234-7035316405 You are therefore advised to send the following information to the back to facilitate the process and delivery of your fund ATM CARD with the appointed delivery service. Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to the bank immediately: this bank will send to you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw you’re winning prize in any ATM MACHINE in any part of the world but the maximum is seven thousand dollars per day so provide the below information to this bank. 1. YOUR FULL NAME 2. PHONE NUMBER 3. ADDRESS WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THE ATM CARD. 4. YOUR AGE AND CURRENT OCCUPATION 5. ATTACH A COPY OF YOUR VALID MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION NOTE: THIS BANK HAS BEEN MANDATED TO ISSUE OUT ATM CARD VALUED $500,000.00 AS YAHOO BETA MAIL LOTTERY AWARD FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 2008.BECAUSE OF IMPOSTORS, WE HEREBY ISSUE YOU OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS (ATM-Y2K8) SO YOU HAVE TO INDICATE THIS CODE WHEN CONTACTING THE BANK BY USING IT AS YOUR SUBJECT. Congratulations once again. Yours in service, YAHOO BETA MAIL

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  Two Words - PHISHING SCAM ;);););) Ask yourself these three questions: * Did you enter any lottery? (NO) * Why would two RIVAL companies - Yahell and "Windows" (MSN) - hold a lottery together? (THEY WOULDN'T) * Does this sound too good to be true??? (HELLS YES!!!) ;););););)