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I received email with subject WINNER YAHOO!&WINDOWS LIVE LOTTO ONLINE PROMO 2007!!!. Is this a scam?
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This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($300,000,00) for the YEAR 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC & WINDOW LIVE.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to YAHOO! and Hotmail we only select two people every YEAR as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
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 not later than 7 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number......................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788
These numbers above fall within the African agent's Location file, you are requested to contact him and send your winning identification numbers to him,
Rev Don Marthins, at his direct phone number or email below:
PHONE: +447024021928
E-mail: revdon_marthins@yahoo.co.uk
You are therefore advise to send the following information to the Claim Agent to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund.
1. Full name..................
2. Country....................
3. Contact Address............
4. Telephone Number...........
5. Marital Status.............
6. Occupation.................
7. Age........................
8. Sex........................
Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in service,
MRS ROSE DAVID
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11 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
There isn't a MSN or Yahoo online lottery, or any kind of lottery that you can win without buying a ticket. If you have already sent personal information to these people they will steal your identity and any money you send, you have lost forever. If you have been a victim of any Nigerian scam you can report them to the U.S. Secret Service and you can find their website with a simple Yahoo Search. You really shouldn't count on seeing your money ever again though.
This nonsense has all of the signs of a scam. There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades. The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy. But this is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question. Also, any email that uses all-caps is definitely a scam.
If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud.
- LauraLv 45 years ago
It's a scam. So far this week I've had 6 similar E-mails telling me I've won over £8 million and also one asking me to imitate somebodies relative for £4 million. I just delete them. Ignore and delete it.
- worldinspectorLv 51 decade ago
EVERY email you get informing you that you've "won" something is a scam. Guaranteed to be. I get several EVERY DAY! If 1% of them were legit, I'd have been rich long ago!!! (Conversely, if I'd replied to and followed through on 1% of them, I'd have been scammed down to nothing long ago!)
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
scam. you don't win a lottery that you didn't enter.
