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Is this message spam or did i really win the yahoo lottery?

  • hi i just recently recived a message from yahoo saying that i was winner of a random pick and won 300,000 i dont know if this is real or what they say that are about to send me a check but i need to send them 175 first to nigeria or something i also need to know who i can contact at yahoo to talk to somewone about this i think this mught be real i have emailed person back and forth about this and they do reply take a look for yourshevles You won $300,000.00 ! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! Yahoo! Mail ONLINE BONUS LOTTERY WNNINGS. CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON $300,000.00 Dear Winner, Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND USD ($300,000,00) for the Easter Promotion which is organized by yahoo.messenger.com this year, Kindly visit http://lottery.yahoo.com/ . Yahoo! collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on Yahoo! mail, among the millions that subscribe to msn mail, we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected even if you own a yahoo account or not. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a Group of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base. Further more your details (e-mail address) falls within our West Africa representative office in Lagos State Nigeria, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of $300,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1 Million international draw. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE These are your identification numbers: Batch number....................... 09445 YLB Lotto number........................ 09446 YLB Winning number.................... 09447 YLB To begin your claims, kindly contact the Claims Manager Dr. Terry Cole Email: [email protected] Phone: 00-234-808-531-1127 You are required to forward him with the following details: 1.FULL NAME 2.COUNTRY AND PRESENT STATE 3.PRESENT ADDRESS 4.SEX 5.DATE OF BIRTH 6.AGE 7.OCCUPATION 8.TELEPHONE NUMBER 9. CITY AND ZIP CODE 10.MARITAL STATUS As soon as you contact him, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money. Note: Remember you must contact your claims manager not later than 48hours of Notification. After that all funds will be returned as unclaimed. Congratulations once more!! For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this pro gramme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Yours Sincerely, Dr WILLIAM GERRI LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR. http://lottery.yahoo.com

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    This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them: http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscam_Yahoo.php http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or... Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them. Check out these sites for further information : http://www.scambusters.com http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

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There is none and has never been a Yahoo lottery. I constantly receive those notifications. I have won at least a billion dollars so far. Due to the number of lottery scams no legitimate company would ever notify you by email that you have won a prize. Every email that states you have won a lottery or there is money waiting for you is a scam. There will be a followup asking for a prepayment of some type of fee to receive the money. Haven't you noticed that even though you have won 100 million your name appears nowhere in the email? It may not even contain your email address. If people were winning 100 million every day it would be on the news with pictures of the lucky people. Unless you enter a lottery or contest, such as with one of the magazine companies, any notification is a scam. If you get 100 million you will not be notified by email. §

Barkley Hound

yes i have also had this email so its obviosly a scam i sent the details they requested but have had no furhther reply.i just hope this is the last i hear from them,i have kept the emails they sent me in case i need them for future refference.

Lynne D

i recieved the same email..its not true.if u watch dateline they investigated these con artist in nigeria.they r con artist wanting money.

kristie s

Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri... http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt... http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery... .Also If you go to the following site you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful

smeagin

I'm sorry to tell you that the e-mail you received is a scam. The message sounds too good to be true because it is. There is no such thing as the Yahoo! Lottery. The same goes for MSN, Toyota, AOL, Coca-Cola, et cetera. None of these companies are giving away money to random Internet users. Rather, scammers are collecting e-mail addresses from all over the Internet and bombarding them with these fake e-mails. If you reply to this scam e-mail, the con artist will soon ask you for money. There are many excuses for why the scammer wants money, but they're all lies. Many scammers will tell you that you need to wire them money to cover "courier fees." When you do this, the scammer will come back soon to ask for more money. This will continue until you are either broke or wise to the scam. Either way, you have lost your money - and there will not be a lottery prize to collect at the end of this mess, either. Some scammers will even go so far as to provide you with documents as "proof" that they are trustworthy. You might receive a scanned copy of a passport as identification. This is either fake or stolen. Seeing an ID proves nothing. And anybody with MS Paint and five minutes of free time can forge confirmation papers, lists of winners, or other such documents to convince victims that the lottery winnings are real. The scammers will try to make their cons look as genuine as possible so as to extract your money from you. You can confirm that you've received a scam e-mail by doing one or more of these things: * Open the company's official Web site in a fresh browser window. Yahoo!, MSN, et cetera will not have any information on their Web sites about their lottery drawings or giveaways. This is because these companies are not really giving away money. At the most, you might find a fraud warning on these official Web sites. This is an excellent indication that you're being scammed, as companies that *are* giving away money will promote this fact all over the place. * Copy part of the e-mail and paste that into a search engine. Many known scam e-mails are collected and published at various anti-scam Web sites. These pages are there to help spread the word about these scams so that fewer people will fall for them. Use these free tools to your advantage: search parts of any suspicious e-mail you receive before you reply. * Contact your local law-enforcement department. More often than not, somebody there is familiar enough with this widespread scam to confirm that it is not real. You should delete the scam e-mail and forget about it. Reporting the e-mail account to the provider to have the box closed might seem like a good idea, but this can ruin an active law-enforcement investigation. You can also warn people you know about these scams. The more people we all tell, the fewer potential victims these low-life scammers will have. http://www.scamwarners.com is an excellent Web site for more information about fake lottery scams and other, similar cons.

Sarah B

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