Real lottery or scam?
Question:
YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC
Barley House Harold Road
Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom.
MOTTO: FIGHTING POVERTY AROUND THE WORLD
Dear Winner,
YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are delighted to inform you of your prize release on the 28th June 2007 from the YAHOO! International Lottery Program. Which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses, your e-mail was attached to ticket number 47061725 07056490902, serial number 7741137002. This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the first category. You hereby have been approved a lump sum of US$1,000,000 .00(0ne Million DOLLARS)in cash credit file ref ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize of US$50,000,000.00(DOLLARS) shared amongst 50(Fifty) lucky winners in this category.
All participant were selected through a sorting and filtering program designed by Dr Philip Emegwali from 50,000,000 (fifty million) e-mail addresses from the web because you have once visited one of Yahoo! sponsored sites. This is part of our international promotions program which is conducted monthly to promote the use of the internet with the world as a global village. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by YAHOO! We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL I D of the people that subscribes to yahoomail, msn, hotmail, aol, altavista, and others online, among the billions that subscribe to us only five people will be merge for winnings we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people that won for this month..
you are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.
Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won,except otherwise decided by the management. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and retrieved .
Our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him through the email address or telephone numbers as directed below.
Oversea Payment and Release Order Department,
OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT
Contact Person:Barr. Desmond Oconnor.
Email:barristerdesmond123@yaho...
+447024078909.
+447045717875.
With the following are your Particulars.
Security Code: AL/FEB/XX01
Ref: 4758961725
Batch: ALLINC 70564943902/188
Winning no: FGNGB2701/LPR
SECURITY
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.
Note, all winnings MUST be claimed otherwise the funds will be given to charity.
Congratulations, once more from the entire Management and Staff of YAHOO! Thank you for being part of this promotional email lottery program.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Darryn Clarke
Yahoo! 2006 Lottery program
Barley House Harold Road
Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te United Kingdom.
Tel. +447024083012
Security Advice :At The Yahoo International Lottery we understand the importance of security. That's why we've created highly secure facilities to give you confidence during our promotions programs or when you play our games online, on TV via Sky Active or using your mobile phone to play by text.
Warning: Fraudulent emails are circulating that appears to be using Yahoo International Lottery addresses, but are not from us. If you receive similar email that is not from us, kindly disregard/discard it immediately. Do NOT reply any such email but genuine email from us via this email address. Our security pages that will give you more information about current scams and what measures you can take to protect yourself.
NOTICE: You have received this message from Yahoo International Lotto Lottery prize dept. because you have visited one of our sponsored sites and have voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors. If you wish to be taken out of this list do not reply to this mail, reply to the agent with the words remove. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message. If you believe you have received this message in error, please delete it and all copies of it from your system and notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail.
Thank you.
MANAGEMENT.
yahoo lottery
Answer:
It's spam. Yahoo doesn't do lottery or promos of this kind. :(
Uhh lol if you never entered in the lottery it's a scam
see this AnswersRoom.com post
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
It's a scam, I get those things all of the time.
Scam it links to a personal yahoo account not a yahoo admin account. Report it.
well im not gonna read all that but im gonna asume its a prank.
Scam, there is no such thing as a Yahoo lottery.
this is a scam.yahoo is not going to giv eaway a million dollars that easy lol...sorry
SCAM. Always ask yourself how this company is making money. If there is no bvious way, then they are scamming people out of their money.
Once you contact them, they will ask you for your full name, address, DOB, bank account particulars and then they clean it out. Scam:)
If you never entered a lottery it's a scam and look to see who sent the e-mail. Contact Yahoo personally.
Usually if it's too good to be true, then it's probably not true.
yea they r all scams. remember if u didnt enter something its a scam
you know whats fun is messin' with these guys. Reply to their messages, but act like you really are stupid enough to get scammed be them. (These people are scam artists who work very hard stealing people's money, don't make much either) Act like you don't understand they're questions (such as bank account #, SS # ect.) and give out ones that look real, or also say you're a good person trying to help them. Remember how dumb to be, give them a business address or something, make up a name. These idiots we'll send you back emails for months believing your info, thinking they're getting your money
SCAM!
Just delete and forget about it!
It's a scam. Yahoo! doesn't have a lottery. It's just someone wanting your personal information and your money. Click on the links below.
Consumer Fraud Reporting
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/in...
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...
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