YAHOO.COM LOTTERY SCAM

savant365

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Mar 28, 2007
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I hope no one on here would be gullible enough to fall for these scams but I got excited when I saw how offical and professional this looked. A few quick searchs will let you know if e-mails like these are scams. Please be careful who you give information to. It would be nice if they would catch some of the people who try to get away with this. Unfortunately I know there are people out there who send these people money and never see anything for it. There is absolutely no yahoo lottery. HH and be safe both decting and online, Charlie

Copy of email:

Messenger You won $800.000! Yahoo! Mail Congratulates you!
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 (Eight Hundred Thousand Us Dollars ($800,000) for the month of August, 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 US$800,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.2

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

These are your identification numbers..........

Batch number.......................Lwh 09445
Lotto number........................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact the Fiduciary Agent at this email address ( [email protected],[email protected]) You are required to forward him with the following details:

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,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12 THE MONTH YOU WON........................................................

As soon as you contact the Attorney, he 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,



Dr WILLIAM GERRI
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo! Lottery Results
Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to register or be a Yahoo! registered user before winning.
 

TeddyB1967

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Feb 23, 2007
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Pennsylvania
SCAM!!!

I just recieved one of these notices as well. Funny thing is, it comes from a hotmail.co.uk email addy, if these people had even the slightest bit of intelligence they would have used a yahoo email addy.
 

shadowwalker

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Feb 19, 2006
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I try to get these guys to send the (box,letter,"courier delivery", ect.) to a makebeleive name and address. At least I get that satifaction. Oh making them spend money on their scam.
 

ClonedSIM

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shadowwalker said:
I try to get these guys to send the (box,letter,"courier delivery", ect.) to a makebeleive name and address. At least I get that satifaction. Oh making them spend money on their scam.

LOL! I enjoy writing back to them and answering all their questions in a made-up "foreign" language. The funny part is sometimes I get replies back addressed to the fictitious name, the most recent being Mr. Getoperj Henowledt. ;D
 

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