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[ Flag Message - Mark as Unread ] From: "Yahoo!" <[email protected]> Add Mobile Alert Subject: Yahoo! 2008 Promotions (You Have Won One Million Pounds Cash Prize) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:27:33 +0000 MICROSOFT-YAHOO! CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS REF:MICRO-YAHOO7/315116127/27 BATCH No:15/623/UK. Registered Lottery No: 220949. CBS/AP) Microsoft Corporation has bought search engine operator Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion in cash and stock in a move to boost its competitive edge in the online services market. Microsoft bid $31 per share for Yahoo, representing a 62 percent premium to Yahoo's closing stock price, the Corporation hereby announces the conclution of the deal and the deal could also give lift to the entire technology market. This is the company’s major milestone to embrace online services. Microsoft officials noted that Yahoo! Corporation, which has about 75 percent worldwide market share in the online search business and that the online advertising industry - which today stands at more than $40 billion - is forecast to reach $80 billion in the next three years. W e hereby announce the official notification o f the results of the Microsoft-Yahoo! Financial Promotions held this Month. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 883734657492-5319 with serial number 7263-267, batch number 8254297137 drew the lucky numbers 14-22-28-37-40-44 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £1,000,000.00 (i.e One Million United Kingdom Pounds) in cash credited to file REF:YAHOO6/315116127/27. This Lottery is approved and licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). Please note that this Promotional Programmes tagged "Thanks for contributing to our financial Sucess" was sponsored and organized by the Microsoft-Yahoo! Corporation in view of the Financial benefits Microsoft-Yahoo! have received from its numerous customers either through adverts, hosting and personal emails. The reason this lottery was organized is to than k the numerous public including us ers and non-users of YAHOO! MAIL for the financial benefits THE MICROSOFT-YAHOO! CORPORATION have received as a result of their Patronage last Year. For processing and remittance of your winnings, you are required to contact our designated claims director providing him with your detailed information as listed below; Contact: Mr.Owen Smith REMMITANCE DIRECTOR MICROSOFT-YAHOO! CORPORATIONS UK 44 Moorfields London EC2Y 9AL UNITED KINGDOM Email: [email protected] [email protected] PHONE NUMBER: +447031741202 APPLICATION FOR PRIZE CLAIM (Receipt Official Notification Letter) FULL NAM ES* CONTACT ADDRESS* COUNTRY* SEX* AGE* MARITAL STATUS* OC CUPATION* NATION ALITY* TELEPHONE NUMBER* EMAIL ADDRESS* HAVE Y OU A PASSPORT OR LICENCE (identification on delivery)* TICKET NUMBER* SERIAL NUMBER* BATCH NUMBER* REFERENCE NUMBER* Once Again Thanks For Contributing To Our Financial Success!!! Yours Sincerely, Steve Ballmer Chief Executive Officer Microsoft-Yahoo! Corporation. ======================================… MICROSOFT-YAHOO! CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS REF:MICRO-YAHOO7/315116127/27 BATCH No:15/623/UK. Registered Lottery No: 220949. CBS/AP) Microsoft Corporation has bought search engine operator Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion in cash and stock in a move to boost its competitive edge in the online services market. Microsoft bid $31 per share for Yahoo, representing a 62 percent premium to Yahoo's closing stock price, the Corporation hereby announces the conclution of the deal and the deal could also give lift to the entire technology market. This is the company’s major milestone to embrace online services. Microsoft officials noted that Yahoo! Corporation, which has about 75 percent worldwide market share in the online search business and that the online advertising industry - which today stands at more than $40 billion - is forecast to reach $80 billion in the next three years. W e hereby announce the official notification of the results of the Microsoft-Yahoo! Financial Promotions held this Month. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 883734657492-5319 with serial number 7263-267, batch number 8254297137 drew the lucky numbers 14-22-28-37-40-44 which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of £1,000,000.00 (i.e One Million United Kingdom Pounds) in cash credited to file REF:YAHOO6/315116127/27. This Lottery is approved and licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). Please note that this Promotional Programmes tagged "Thanks for contributing to our financial Sucess" was sponsored and organized by the Microsoft-Yahoo! Corporation in view of the Financial benefits Microsoft-Yahoo! have received from its numerous customers either through adverts, hosting and personal emails. The reason this lottery was organized is to than k the numerous public including us ers and non-users of YAHOO! MAIL for the financial benefits THE MICROSOFT-YAHOO! CORPORATION have received as a result of their Patronage last Year. For processing and remittance of your winnings, you are required to contact our designated claims director providing him with your detailed information as listed below; Contact: Mr.Owen Smith REMMITANCE DIRECTOR MICROSOFT-YAHOO! CORPORATIONS UK 44 Moorfields London EC2Y 9AL UNITED KINGDOM Email: [email protected] [email protected] PHONE NUMBER: +447031741202 APPLICATION FOR PRIZE CLAIM (Receipt Official Notification Letter) FULL NAM ES* CONTACT ADDRESS* COUNTRY* SEX* AGE* MARITAL STATUS* OC CUPATION* NATION ALITY* TELEPHONE NUMBER* EMAIL ADDRESS* HAVE Y OU A PASSPORT OR LICENCE (identification on delivery)* TICKET NUMBER* SERIAL NUMBER* BATCH NUMBER* REFERENCE NUMBER* Once Again Thanks For Contributing To Our Financial Success!!! Yours Sincerely, Steve Ballmer Chief Executive Officer Microsoft-Yahoo! Corporation. DeleteReplyForwardSpamMove... 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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_Yahoo3.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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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

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Actully I don't know exactly but I think it's not true,...?!

Salem A

i recive evey day 3 or 4 email like this it is cheating if you want to belive that look at the header of the email to the ( TO : ) you willnot see you email it is either empty or to the same sender

prince101

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. If you have not actually lost money to the scammer, you do not have a case for law enforcement to investigate. They're busy trying to catch the scammers who have stolen from actual victims. Reporting the scammer's 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

NO! It is a phishing scam

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