An example of a Yahoo! Lottery scam for those of you that were wondering...?

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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 July, 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 ( leonardgreg1@yahoo.co.uk,mrleonardgreg@m... 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.











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An example of a Yahoo! Lottery scam for those of you that were wondering...?
Was there a question in there somewhere? We've all gotten this crap, and it has been going on for years. That's why Yahoo provides a spam button.
Reply:i always answer lottery scams this way


maybe your question will help some one


BLOCK SENDERS LIST - SPAM - FILTERS - REPORT SPAM





here is my short answer


it is a real problem





about Lotterys


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


BLOCK SENDER LINK


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


if you have yahoo mail and a lot of other like outlook


check other email programs for options like these


open email program


choose options


choose block senders


type in address if you need to


IF CLICK THE SPAM BUTTON IT WILL DO IT FOR YOU


YAHOO FILTERS LINK


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


go to mail page


choose options top right corner of the page


then Filters


set it up


choose words like you see in email in subject line


this seems to work best


BULK MAIL OPTIONS


open mail program


on right side choose options


then General Preferences


Then Special Folders:


check these two boxes


Save your sent messages in the Sent Items folder


Redirect incoming unsolicited mail to the Bulk Mail folder


these are some of the options i use


YAHOO EMAIL HELP AND CONTACT THEM


http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/...


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


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


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


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


http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/...


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


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


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/securit...


REPORT SPAM REPORT ABUSE


messages from yahoo users


phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com


email yahoo at this address


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/


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


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/


messages from yahoo users


phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com


Federal Trade Commission: spam@uce.gov


Treasury Department: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov


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


FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/


FTC: http://www.ftc.goV/


Treasury Department: 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov





MORE INFO ABOUT SECURITY





http://security.yahoo.com/
Reply:A person has to have an IQ of a tree to believe any of that.

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