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Yahoo! send me a message "You won $500 dollars" Is it really true?

The message said:

You won $500! Yahoo!® Mail congratulates you!

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $500!

Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account has been selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. Please click the link below and follow instructions on our web site. Your money will be paid directly to your e-gold, PayPal, StormPay or MoneyBookers account.

Or is it another scam?

Tnank you!

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    That's a phishing scam right there. Never attempt to get in touch with the phishers by replying to their message. Forward the whole thing to phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com. Then have that marked as spam and deleted right away. That's all to it.

  • dr c
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Svetlana, be warned; this is all absolute trash!!

    I get these every day, and when I tried to claim anything, I lost $1000s!

    Daily, for the past 2.5 years, I have been getting Promos and the like claiming I had won money and some supposedly from Yahoo and others from Microsoft; they are all scams!

    I checked one out through the bank in Uk they were claiming was dealing with it; when I contacted the proper people through the avenues properly available to public, and through my local bank as well, we found out it had been done to others as well, by scammers!

    Also, the ones claiming millions of $'s from Nigeria and other places as well - or wanting to make you beneficiary or "next-of-kin"; don't involve yourself; I did, and lost much money!

    Just stick to what you know and do best!

    OR get more education to become more expert in a new skill or area.

  • 1 decade ago

    I also received the email here in Australia signed by a Mr Beck I think it is a scam

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    She develop right into a splash of mine on my first account, yet I have not have been given any concept what got here approximately to her...and that i've got no concept what got here approximately to fairly some different purchasers at right here the two. all of them leave. :'(

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