Dear yahoo staff, I just received a notes from yahoo news lottery that I become a winner of yahoo lottery?

No this is a SPAM SCAM email. Dont reply or follow any instructions. There is no Yahoo Lottery.

Here is the Yahoo Mail help page that states this:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abu...

It is scam. Yahoo (insert any company name here, this answer works for all!) do not run an email lottery, if they did you could guarantee it would be advertised all over their home page. Check out these links and search answers to see how many people 'win' the exact same lottery every day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lottery_sca...

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery-scams.htm...

Do not click on any links, the page you will be taken to will look authentic but is not

Do not send them a 'courier fee' or any other money

Do not hand over any bank details or passwords

Do report spam

Do delete

Remember there is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot win a lottery if you haven ot bought a ticket. Anyone can set up an email account with Yahoo, they can use any combination of letters they choose. I could be 'thequeenmother@yahoo.com' or 'disneyfreeticketsgenuine@yahoo.com' That doesn't mean that I am either of these and is fine as long as I don't try to use the address to mislead people. Don't be fooled by legitimate looking email addresses which end the same way as any other free account, don't be fooled by fictitious titles such as 'Dr' or 'Executive Director of Winner Claims'.

(I've answered this question so many times that I now keep this answer on my desktop and just copy and paste....that should give you a clue!)

Are these questions for real?

Are there REALLY that many morons on Yahoo Answers who think there's a Yahoo Lottery? IS it REALLY that hard to type the phrase "Yahoo Lottery" into a search engine and hit the "Submit" button???

I used to post debunking information to these questions. Then I just set up a web page with debunking information:

http://blog.matthewmiller.net/2007/07/there-is-no-...

Now, I no longer care. If these people are too stupid to spend 10 seconds looking something up, then they DESERVE to get taken in by the Yahoo Lottery scam.

This is a scam. Yahoo does not hold lotteries. Whatever you do do not contact them, you will be asked for money or bank details if you do and your account will be emptied. Report this to Yahoo - go to Help and Contact Us.

Yahoo do not operate a lottery. This is a scam. Here is some further information about these scam emails:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya... 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/internet-scams.html

http://www.police.west-tisbury.ma.us/internet_scam...

I am not any Yahoo! staff anyway but i can give you some suggestion on your ask.

NO, Yahoo! has not any such lottery or any other monetary prizes and that is a or 'phishing mail' or scam!

If you received an email impersonating Yahoo! and would like to report it please forward the email to:

spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com.

phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com

For knowledge about spams and their prevention read the articles from here,

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abu...

and also from here,

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abu...

If you have already been tricked into giving your password, or other account info. then please visit for retrieve of your account:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/security/general....

yes ,i have a friend have the same situation that received lottery in yahoo e-mail ! she did not know whether it is true

its a scam..

either they want details about you, for identity fraud

or want you to send off a claiming fee

yahoo don't operate a lottery..

S C A M S C A M S C A M

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