Please "yahoo" answer me if it is genuine and true with Microsoft/Yahoo/MSN Lottery Incorporation?
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Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incorporation 1012 Glibert Street, P O Box 1010, Belfast London, Swt-017 Lsd, United Kingdom. YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATIONS 2007 DRAW This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of (£1,200,000) One Million Two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterlings for the month of JUNE 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE. YAHOO, MSN, and MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collected all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Hotmail and other email account Corporate bodies. We only select 10 people every Month as our winners through an electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we congratulate you for being one of the selected person/persons. Your e-mail address was selected raddomly by our selecting machine and your email address made you a winner in the JUNE 10 lucky winners draw for the (bonus No. 10), which subsequently won you the lottery. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of (£1,200,000) One Million Two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds Sterlings; in cash credited to File Number. This is from the total cash prize of £12,000,000 (UK POUNDS) shared among the lucky winners in this category. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from the World Wide Webs and our server drawing system which extracted YAHOO/MSN and some other Associations and Corporations Bodies that are listed online for email account marketing. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIMS You are to contact our Fiduciary Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 10 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be cancel and returned back to us. You are to write to the Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation Fiduciary Agent with the below details for the claims of your winnings. (Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation Fiduciary Agent) Agent Name: Dr. George Fedrick Samuel Agent Mail: [email protected]… Agent Tel: +44-704-570-5657 Congratulations!! once again. Yours In Service, Mrs. Docas Patrick Armstrong Public Relations Officer, British Embassy. (Lottery Co-ordinator)
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NO NO NO!!! I thought these were at first, but then I noticed there were so many of them (Yahoo/MSN/Microsoft/Adobe/ xanga, etc). They are not true, they are scams and e-viruses, so don't click on any links. Definitely do NOT give them any personal information about yourself. You can jus tgoogle it or go to snopes.com to see for yourself. Sorry you thought it might be true- would have been too good to be true! So don't worry just delete and block them. Good luck!
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I have also received such a letter stating that I have won one hundred Great Britain Pounds. First thing `incorporation' is the word attached to companies registered in USA and there would be no suffix like incoperation. This is totally fraud. While AOL (America On LIne) and Microsoft are based in USA they would not select winners from their head offices in USA but not from a branch in UK. I got the mail from one person registered with yahoo in Hangkong. (hk) and he advised me to contact courier in UK. when I tried to know the courier charges the mailers demon stated it could not deliver it because there was no with the registered on said email address.
ramamohan k
This is a SCAM. and a big one. Delete the mail. and don't click on any links in it! if you have, run your virus scanner! (up to date!) Hopefully, you didn't catch anything...
Koiryu
It's a hoax. Snopes even has an article about it. http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/lottery.asp Basically, any time you get an e-mail about winning a lottery you don't even remember entering, it's a scam.
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