"Yahoo! lottery promos," ?

7TH OCTOBER 2007








Dear Email Account Owner,








CONGRATULATIONS OUR LUCKY WINNER ! ! !








The Board of Directors of "YAHOO! LOTTERY PROMOS," wishes to announce to you after due verification of the results of our 'AUGUST' ALL Email Lottery PROMOS held on Thursday 30th August 2007. This result was initially delayed due to mix up of email addresses. The results were finally released on the 3rd September 2007, and your E-mail Account attached to:





YOUR WINNING INFORMATION








Draw Number:- 1047 - 30/06/07


Strike:- 13 40 23 01 Powerball:- 02


Serial Number:- 4888/02


Lucky Numbers:- 13 23 28 32 34 39 Bonus Ball:- 48 and


Batch Number:- YLI3662006/7





which consequently won the prize in the second category of the month of August 2007.





Based on the above notification, the Board of Directors of Yahoo! has approved a lump sum payout of ?250,200.00 (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) only in cash which will be Paid to you on the DAY SET OUTSIDE FOR PRIZE PAYMENT PRESENTATION CEREMONEY in our United Kingdom Branch Office by the Board of Directors.





In view of the foregoing, your prize funds has been deposited in one of our Paying Banks and has also been insured with your Email Address Pending when you will prove to your official Claim Agent that you are the original owner of the email account that won the Yahoo! ALL Email Lottery Promos Prize Awards.





Please Note: Due to mix up of some email addresses, we ask that you should keep your winning information from public notice until your prize has been processed and your prize paid out in Draft or transferred into any of your bank account.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claimant or unwarranted abuse of this program by fraudulent/scam people as we do receive a lot of complaints,hence our strict measures.


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To begin your Prize Claim,





CONTACT YOUR CLAIM AGENT:-


PASTOR HARRISON STEVE


(BRITISH CITIZEN)


PASSPORT NO:B81507972


DATE OF BIRTH: 10 OCT 1964


EXPIRATION OF INT'NAL PASSPORT: 28 SEPT 09.


D/Tel: + 44-701-114-0261.


Email: yahooclaimagent1@delfi.lv


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Yours sincerely,





ARTHUR KERN,


DIRECTOR.


FOR: BOARD OF DIRECTORS.


YAHOO! LOTTERY PROMO INC.











Copyright © 1994-2007 The Yahoo! Lottery International Promotion Inc.


All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guideline





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DISCLAIMER NOTICE:


This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the Yahoo! Mail system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the email account named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.





YAHOO! Was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It began as a hobby and has evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, conduct transactions and access, share, and create information. Today, led by an executive team that includes Chairman and CEO Terry Semel, Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig, Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker, Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem, and Co-Founders/Chief Yahoo¡¯s Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo! Inc. has become the world's largest global online network of integrated services. Yahoo! is a leading Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices around the globe.





Yahoo's! top priority is to provide users with the information they want, when they want it, how they want it and on any device. To ensure this, Yahoo! Offers a broad and deep array of products and services that provide our users with the power to connect, communicate, and create, access, and share information online. With this lotto program for our customers around the world.





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"Yahoo! lottery promos," ?
This is a scam thousands of these emails are sent every day


DO NOT send any cash or bank details click the link below


to see what yahoo say about this





http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
Reply:This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them.


http://www.hotscams.com/articles/759/1/L...


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:Let me give it to you like this: spam and scam; fake and fraud. Enough said. Now just give that "phishy" message the spam heave-ho into the garbage.
Reply:~SCAM~ ~SCAM~ ~SCAM~ ~SCAM~





Sorry! No money for you!





DO NOT REPLY! DO NOT SEND PERSONAL INFORMATION!





I took this directly from the Yahoo link I listed below.





"Is there a Yahoo! Lottery? Does Yahoo! Mail ever offer cash prizes?





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..."





There's a lot more on the site if you care to read it.





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





I think I'll just cut and paste my answer on the other ga-zillion questions about the same thing.





~SCAM~ ~SCAM~ ~SCAM~ ~SCAM~