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Is there such a contest as the 2006 Yahoo! Mid-Year Gift Dash?

Is there such a contest as the 2006 Yahoo! Mid-Year Gift Dash?

  • A friend of my father's recently got this text message from Yahoo! Mail stating that he - or rather his cellphone number - had won over a thousand bucks in a drawing, under a contest known as the '2006 Yahoo! Mid-Year Gift Dash'. It was an odd message, since we are in Oman, and Yahoo! hasn't percolated so much in this country for our cellphone numbers to become part of a contest. So I sent an e-mail to the address they had given, and the recipient replied with a fancy no-holds-barred message about the contest details. Apparently, Yahoo! is celebrating its 11th birthday, and has decided to pick up 100 numbers at random from all over the world and reward them halfway thru the year with money - the e-mail looks fake however, even with all the disclaimers and 'copyrights' (for one thing, there is a Santa Claus GIF). Is this a real contest (and if so, how come I haven't seen any mention of it on the 'Net), or am I just paranoid?

  • Answer:

    It's a scam. Yahoo!'s 11th birthday was months ago. Yahoo! is not running any free giveaway to random phone numbers and never has.

Jean_Atk... at Yahoo! Answers Visit the source

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