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Posted in EU Info on 10/06/2010 11:23 pm by admin
Messenger Yahoo! Lottery Results me won £800,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates me! ?
Hello Friends, i have got a mail from lottery@yahoo.com in which they announced me as one of the five winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw held in September, 2008. They said that 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… They asking me some other details of mine to verify and to transfer the funds & cheque.. Since i got this mail from Yahoo, i believe 50% on this.. But i agree that anything can happen for me once if i agreed to their bonds.. Already i got similar mail couple of months ago from some other person in which he intimates that i won European Union Micro-Projects Award. But i dont believe on that.. But this time their recipient’s email address is mine.. So i am confused on this.. Can anybody clarify about this???
No. There is no Yahoo! Lottery, and we would never send you information about a contest you never entered.
That’s the definition of unsolicited: you never asked for it. It showed up out of nowhere.
The message probably also displays two other hallmarks of fraud emails: it appears to be official (with company logos, even links), and it demands urgent action “to claim your prize”, or something similar.
If you’ve received a message like “Final Notification: Yahoo! Mail Winner!” or “Your Email Address Has Won $XX million”, it’s a scam.
Don’t reply to the email, don’t click on any links in it, and never divulge any personal information. Instead, click Spam.
Yahoo! Mail will never request personal information in an unsolicited email.
If you get an email that looks like it’s from Yahoo! but tells you you’re the winner of a Yahoo! Lottery or other contest – and it asks you to email personal information to claim a cash prize or reward – click Spam to dispose of it. You can also forward the suspicious email to mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com. Thanks!
“Phishing” is a play on the word “fishing” — because perpetrators are “fishing” for your private information or trying to find ways to trick you into sending them money.
Don’t be fooled! These deceptive emails are used to commit identity theft, charge your credit cards, empty your bank accounts, read your email, and lock you out of your online account by changing your password.
Check out Yahoo’s Security Center for more information on email scams and ways to protect yourself.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-63.html
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