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News Travel Finance Sport Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Welcome, jambhekarre Sign Out All-New Mail Help Yahoo! SearchSearch: Mail| Contacts| Calendar| Notepad Mail Upgrades - Options Check MailCompose Search Mail: Search MailSearch the Web Cyprus Holidays from £239 Folders[Add - Edit] Inbox (184) Draft Sent Bulk (36)[Empty] Trash[Empty] My Folders[Hide] H ICICI Dierct Kotak midcap LVL and Jain Tat bulkmail details misc rasik wang Search Shortcuts My Photos My Attachments Shopping for a new camera? First Time DIY! Fantastic flight offers Save on the new Apple iPods Previous | Next | Back to Messages Call or Instant Message DeleteReplyForwardSpamMove... Printable View This message is not flagged. [ Flag Message - Mark as Unread ] From: "Yahoo!" <notification3@freenet.de> Subject: Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw held on the 31st of January, 2008. Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:27:15 +0100 Messenger Yahoo! Lottery Results you won £400,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw held on the 31st of January, 2008. All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia , United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of 400,000.00 GBP (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING ). This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate 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 British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of 400,000.00 GBP will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE These are your identification numbers:- Batch number.....................Lwh09445 Lotto number.......................Lwh09446 Winning number...................Lwh09447 Yahoo’s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows: FIDUCIARY AGENT Email: yahoo.verificationdepartment@googlemail.com You are to send the completed verification form below to our Agent in the United Kingdom whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!! FULLNAME: AMOUNT WON: DATE OF BIRTH: RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: SEX: MARITAL STATUS: COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: OCCUPATION: COMPANY NAME: TELEPHONE: E.MAIL: INDICATE PREFERRED MODE OF PRIZE COLLECTION: (A) CHEQUE: (B) DRAFT: (C) TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER: DATE NOTIFIED: APPROVED FOR PAYMENT. THIS FORM IS TO ENABLE US HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRIZE WINNER WHICH WILL BE FOWARDED TO OUR MANAGEMENT BANK OR THE COURIER AGENCY FOR YOUR TRANSFER OF FUND & CHECK. IT WILL ALSO HELP THE RELEASE OF WINNER'S CERTIFICATE TO YOU. PLEASE FILL IT AND SEND TO US FOR YOUR DOCUMENTS OF CLAIM. AS SOON AS YOU FILL THIS FORM, THE MANAGEMENT WILL FORWARD IT TO THE BANK FOR THE TRANSFER OF YOUR FUND TO YOUR BANK AND YOUR WINING CERTIFICATE WHICH WILL BE SENT TO YOU AS A BONAFIDE WINNER. Again, remember, all funds not Claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as Unclaimed and donated to charity organization. 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 programme by non-selected winner or unofficial personnel. Yours Sincerely, Dr Terry Simel Chief Executive Officer (CEO) www.yahoo.com YAHOO INC®. Yahoo! Lottery Results. Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! registered user. DeleteReplyForwardSpamMove... 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1. Yes, it is a scam. In one version of this, they tell you to pay taxes up front, you send them the money, and you never hear from them. In another, they ask for your bank routing number to deposit the funds, but they clean out your account instead.
2. Yip
3. of course. did you not read the million other questions like this?
4. SCAM!
5. Sounds like a scam !
6. IF U DIDN'T SIGN UP OR APPLY FOR ANYTHING U DIDN'T WIN IT'S A SCAM AND DON'T GET TAKEN
7. It's a scam, period .You didn’t enter a lottery, and YAHOO isn’t running a lottery. All you are going to win is an empty bank account and more trouble than you ever dreamed of. Possibly a “courier” bill for a few thousand to “deliver” a “prize” you’ll never see.g. If you want to bother, forward the fraudulent email to phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com, spam@uce.gov, and 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov. FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/ FTC: http://www.ftc.gov/
8. Forward the email to: Fraud@Yahoo.com It's a scam, as there are NO real email lotteries. I got the same one from Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay, PayPal, Indonesia, London, Australia and Ireland.... Just delete, delete.
9. SCAM. If it sounds tooo good to be true, it probably is. The next thing they will want is your financial account numbers or for you to cash a check or money order and send them back a portion of the money. There is a website that deals with this. www. badchecks.org.
10. Oh yeah-it is a scam. You didn't need to be so lengthy in your question. Must have taken a long time to type all that.
11. IT'S A SCAM. Could any reasonable person believe the line below: This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.