Does yahoo conduct monthly lotteries and inform winners through other non yahoo email accounts?

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Subject: **Yahoo Congratulate You For Being Their Lucky Winner In March 2008**


Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:36:47 +0100 (CET)





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You won £300 000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!








YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY





CONGRATULATIONS!





YOU WON £300 000!








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 (Three Hundred Thousand Great Britian Pounds sterling (300,000) for the month of March, 2008. 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 internet, among the millions that subscribe to Online 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 £300,000 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$1.3 Billion international draw.

Does yahoo conduct monthly lotteries and inform winners through other non yahoo email accounts?
Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information


http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri...


http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt...


http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...


.Also If you go to the following site you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful
Reply:This is a SCAM. The below links confirm many email scams hitting the internet, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them :


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.


Check out these sites for further information :


http://www.scambusters.com


http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
Reply:I would doubt it.and I say there is no free lunch any where. I'm not a be leaver of this free stuff. BUT I may be totally wrong in my summations.
Reply:SCAM just hit the SPAM button do not open it just confirms your email address and you will get a lot more spam. Never give out your personal info to any of these places. Hope this helps!!!
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Reply:No,these r generated by some gang ...based at Nigeria,don't


trust them and don't send any money...for service charges or incidental expences.

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