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Sorry guys i received yesterday this email but unfortunately i have sent my personal details please help?

• please help me i have sent all my personal information i am so so so so worry is it dangerous please answer ???????/ From the organizers of the YAHOO & WINDOW LIVE United Kingdom National Lottery Promotion we congratulate you as one of the lucky winners of the £1,500,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling). A winning and insurance certificate has been issued in your favor by the organizers of the lottery promotion and copies has been sent to you View Attached File and send your bank details to Proceed further .Call me as soon as you receive this mail However we have submitted your file for payment to the accredited paying bank First National Bank South Africa (FNB), for the UK YAHOO & WINDOWS Lottery promotion payment. Your response to this mail you are to forward to us a scanned: copy of your international passport or Drivers license to avoid double claim from unknown person. And you should be confidential at all times. we advice that you fill your bank details and return it back to us for the final processing and transfer of the said amount into any account information of your choice . As soon as we receive your bank details, we will be forwarding your bank details to the bank and the bank will contact you for final payment of your winning prize. Please send your bank details complete. SEND YOUR BANK DETAILS IMMEDIATELY FOR THE TRANSFER. FULL NAME: BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER: BANK NAME: BANK ADDRESS: BANK BRANCH: BRANCH CODE: BANK SWIFT CODE BANK TELEPHONE NO: BANK ROUTING NO: BANK FAX NO: BENEFICIARY NAME: BENEFICIARY ADD: BEST REGARDS MRS PATRICIA WILLIAMS (PROCESSING)

• Answer:

  100% scam. There is no lottery. There is no Nokia, Shell, BBC, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lotto Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam. Cease emailing that criminal, walk into your bank and tell them what you did.