I've been receiving a winning notification from yahoo lottery.Is this for real or one of those fraud?
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FROM YAHOO ONLINE WINNING NOTIFICATION Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:47:34 +0500 (IST) From: "YAHOO AWARD" <[email protected]> Add to Address Book CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON $800.000.00! Dear Sir/Madam, YAHOO LOTTERY WINNINGNOTIFICATION We happily announce to you the draw of the YahooLottery Intl Inc programs held on the 15th of NOVERMBER 2006 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 withSerial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357, whichsubsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You aretherefore, been approved to claim a total sum of EIGHT HUNDREDTHOUSAND US DOLLARS (U.S $800,000.00)for the month of NOVERMBER 15th2006 lottery win promotion which is organized by MSN & YAHOO LOTTORYINTL INC .Every month. Your winning fall in Europe ! Please notethat your lucky winning number falls within our European bookletrepresentative office in United Kingdom as indicated in your coupon.In view of this, your U.S $800.000.00 would be released to you byany of our payment offices in United Kingdom . Our agent zoned forEuropean paying bank will immediately commence the process tofacilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contacthim. YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people thatsubscribes to yahoo mail, msn, hotmail, aol, AltaVista, and othersonline, among the billions that subscribe to us only five people willbe merge for winnings we only select five people every Month as ourwinners through electronic balloting System without the winnerapplying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the luckypeople that won for this month.. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM youare to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 15 days from dateof Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Anyprize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and retrieved. You are therefore advice to quote the following information to theClams Agent to facilitate them to process the transfer of your fund without delay. more-so do well to fill the form below: Serialnumber 5388/02 Draw lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357 Ticket number:56475600545 188 Batch number.....................Lwh 09445 Lottonumber.......................Lwh0… Winningnumber...................Lwh094… Please note that your luckywinning number falls within our Europe booklet representative officein UK as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your wonprize will be released to you by any of our payment Banks in UK orit's correspondence Bank in Ireland .Our European agent willimmediately commence the process to facilitate the release of yourfunds as soon as you contact him with a FILLED/ completed copy of theWinner Verification and Clearance form attached below through the email address or fax numbers as directed below. Oversea Payment andRelease Order Department, OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERYAGENT Mr.Zanzeba Yusuf (Winners Directorate Office) Mrs. Pauline Keys. Assistant Email:[email protected] Tel:+447024027307 NOTE:YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING AND WINNING DETAILSCONFIDENTIAL TILL CLAIM IS MADE TO AVOID WRONG CLAIMING.ANY BREACH OFCONFIDENCIAL DISQULIFIES YOU FROM GETTING YOUR PRIZE. Congratulations once more!! Yours Sincerely, Thank you forbeing a Yahoo/Msn Member. Mrs.Darryn Clarke Online coordinatorYahoo International Lottery Program. . The Yahoo.com staff Yahoo.comhttp://www.yahoo.com ATTN: ONCE AGAIN WE THE ENTIRE STAFFOF THE YAHOO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY WE ARE CONGRATULATING YOU FOR YOURWINNINGS, SO IN ORDER FOR US TO PROCESS YOUR WINNINGS, YOU ARE TO FILLAND RETURN THE VERIFICATION AND CLEARANCE FORM BELOW TO YOUR CLAIMSAGENT. CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN. VERIFICATIONAND CLERANCE FORM 1. FULLNAMES:______________________________… NAME) 2.RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:________________________________… 3.SEX:_______________ 4. DATE AND PLACE OFBIRTH::_______________________________… 5. MARITALSTATUS:__________________________… 6.OCCUPATION:________________________ 7. E-MAILADDRESS:__________________________… 8. TELEPHONENUMBER:_____________________ 9. FAXNUMBER::_____________________ A. BATCHNUMBER:____________________SERIALNO… B. TICKETNUMBER:____________________ WINNING NO:________________ 10. BRIEFDESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________ 11. AMOUNTWON:______________________________… 12. COUNTRY OFRESIDENCE:____________________________… 13. NEXT OF KIN NAME ANDADDRESS:_____________________________… 14:DATE NOTIFIED________________________________… 15:PASSPORTNO:________________________… PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST HAVETO attach a scanned copy of your international passport, Driver'slicence. DECLARATION: I.....................................… DECLARE THAT THE ABOVE DATA ARE TRUE. IN CASE OF ANY UNFORSEEN CIRCUSTANCE, MY NEXT OF KIN HAS THE RIGHT TO CLAIM MY TOTAL WINNINGS. (OVERSEAS SUBCRIBERS AGENT) SHALL ACT AS MY AGENT IN FACILITATING THETRANSFER OF THE TOTAL FUND TO ME. DATE: YOUR FULL NAMES: Uponreceipt of the duly requested data, Our agent will proceed for properverification and furnish you with the contact information of the payment Bank in the region where your winning numbers fall within soyou can proceed with effecting the release of your claim in anyway youdeem fit. Warning: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appearsto be using Yahoo International Lottery addresses, but are not fromus. If you receive similar email that is not from us, kindlydisregard/discard it immediately. Do NOT reply any such email butgenuine email from us via this email address. Our security pages thatwill give you more information about current scams and what measuresyou can take to protect yourself. CONGRATULATIONS!!! FROM YAHOOONLINE LOTTERY BOARD.
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I wouldn't run right out and buy any new cars :(
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Other answers
This is one of those fraud emails unfortunately. The best thing to do is forward it to the Federal Trade Commission [email protected]. You can go to www.consumer.gov/idtheft for more info. Also be sure to report this to Yahoo because someone is using their name to try and get people to give out personal info. Click on Help at the bottom of the Home page. Then Security Center under helpful links. Then click the Security Information highlighted to take you into the Privacy Policy near the bottom of the page. Scroll down till you see Reporting Incidents and use the contact form. Too good to be true usually is.
Jamilee
Fraud.
The Mr. Pine
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the email you received is a scam. This has been circulating for a while, and it's only an ideal way for the criminal to get your personal details (identity theft). Remember, winning something out of the blue with purchasing a ticket or entry is extremely unlikely. The following websites should be able to give you a more in-depth look at what is currently circulating on the net:
devs Advoc8
You are about the 3rd person I've seen on YA asking about this. Report it to Yahoo NOW. DO NOT give these people any information. It looks like a scam to get a passport. What if they used your info to get a passport and then b*mbed Big Ben?
musemessmer
This is big time spam that is going around. Yahoo would not do that.
†ღ†Jules†ღ†
scam, i got that mail a few times.
waljac6108
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