Received an email from Yahoo UK and am aware of a scam involving a "lottery winning email" Please verify.
—– Original Message —-
From: YAHOONATIONALLOTTERYPROMO <2007yahoolotteryresult@earthlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:27:17 AM
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!
Yahoo! UK & Ireland
Yahoo! Lottery Incorperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4TE United Kingdom.
Date: 1st of October, 2007.
Yahoo! UK & Ireland,
We happily notify you the lottery draw of the Yahoo! Beta cash lotto
held on the 1st of October,2007 in London UK.
YAHOO! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Four Hundred Thousand British Pounds Starling £400,000 GBP) of the year, 2007. Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger.com every month.
YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger 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.
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 conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities 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 GBP will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US.3 Billion international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE:
These are your identification numbers……….To begin your claims, kindly contact our fiduciary agent company at this email address: barr.cyrilbrownesq@yahoo.es
You are required to forward her with the following details:
Her name is Barr.Cynthia Morefield(RCA).
1.FULL NAME:
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
3.PRESENT ADDRESS:
4.SEX:
5.DATE OF BIRTH:
6.AGE:
7.OCCUPATION:
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY):
10.MARITAL STATUS:
11.WINNING NUMBER:
12.BATCH NUMBER:
13.LOTTO NUMBER:
14.THE MONTH YOU WON:
As soon as you contact her,she will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money.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 programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Yours Sincerely,
Yahoo! UK & IrelandLOTTERY!
Mrs. Reyan Berker .
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com
You must be 16 or over to play or claim a prize
We hope you’re enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!.
You select how to transfer the prize money to you:
ATM CARD Delivery To Your Address
Bank Account Transfer
Electronic Money Transfer
See what’s happening on Yahoo.com today. Do you Yahoo!?
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SCAM. Got the same e-mail.
SCAM SCAM…..FRAUD FRAUD.
Every single email indicating that you have won a lottery that you did not enter is a scam PERIOD.
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SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT FALL FOR IT! Do not give them any info!!!!!!!!
thats a scam. look at the bottom, bank account transfer? they’re going to try and get your info either for identity theft or to drain your account.
Scam !!!! Don’t even open these,just delete
You can’t have won this – 50,000 other people got the same message – so I guess we are all winners, huh?!? Guess what? Yahoo does not have lotteries. Never has had – never will have. This is spam email and it’s one of the longest-running scams on the internet today. Put it back in spam and forget it.
I got one like that, it was made to look like a job transferring money. Even if it were true, think of all the spam you would get!
I might suggest that you use top level domain blocking if you are using Microsoft Outlook, This allows you to block all mail from foreign countries. 99% of this mail is either scams or junk mail.
If you are using another email client I would suggest using Comodo’s Email verification software, this make the other person confirm that its a real live person sending the mail, unless you allow the mail.
I have found this program to be a great program.