Is there a Yahoo&Microsoft Lotery?

e: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 03:57:10 -0500


De: "Yahoo%26amp;Microsoft Lottery Incorporation" %26lt;award@microsoft.com%26gt;


Objet: OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION





Yahoo%26amp;Microsoft Lottery Incorporation


7 Prague Palace.Brixton Hill


London SWZ SED.


United Kingdom.








Dear Lucky Winner.





We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of


our


winners selected this month. This promotion was set-up to encourage the


active


users of the Internet Microsoft Windows. Hence we do believe with your


winning


prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Yahoo/Msn %26amp;


Microsoft Windows. I wish to formally announce to you that you have


successfully pass the requirements, statutory obligations,


verifications,


validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all on line


winners.





A winning cheque will be issued in your name by the Yahoo/Msn Lottery


Incorporation board, You have therefore won the entire sum of


£450,000,00


{Four Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great British Pounds} and

Is there a Yahoo%26amp;Microsoft Lotery?
This is a SCAM. The below links gives confirmation of various 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:There's no such thing as a lottery sponsored by Yahoo or Microsoft, and the e-mail you got is a scam. The idea is that the scammers will say you need to furnish a "processing fee" and/or a bunch of your personal information in order to release your winnings. Then, once the scammers have gotten what they want from you, they'll take the money and run (and you'll never hear from them again), or they'll use your information to steal your identity. Or both.





The best policy for e-mails like this is "delete and forget it" because they're ALL scams. Do not reply, do not give the scammers any information, and certainly don't send them any money. In this case, the Delete button is your friend, not some stranger trying to sucker you by saying you've won hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Reply:No way. This is nothing but an outright scam. Just spam the message into the trash right now.
Reply:NOoooo!