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Is this true?did i really win £1.5,0000.000,00 or it's just a hoax?
yahoo sent me an email that my email address won and this is the email:
From: consltant_suzan.howard2007@yahoo.com.hk View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Subject: YOUR E-MAIL WON
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:51:45 -0500
YAHOO! FINANCE INTERNATIONAL
---SEASON'S PROMOTIONS---
Dear Esteemed Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the YAHOO! International
Promotions Program held on the 27th of December,2007. Your e-mail with
batch number 8254297137 drew the lucky numbers 14-22-28-37-40-44 which
consequently won in the 3rd category, you are therefore approved for a
lump sum pay out of £1.5,0000.000,00 (i.e One Million Five Hundred
Thousand British Pounds).
Please contact your claims agent immediately,to file your claims
process immediately;
Claims Agent: (Mrs).Susan Howard
Email: consltant_suzan.howard2007@yahoo.com.hk
You are to contact her with the following information:
Your Full Names:
Your Contact Address:
Your Telephone:
Occupation:
Sex:
Age :
Location:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yours Sincerely,
Dr.Terry Moir Miller
Dr Chaz Berry
Mrs. Maureen Lamb
Directors.
11 Answers
- JillPinkyLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them.
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscam_...
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 :
Source(s): Experience within Criminal Justice Dept. U.K. (dealt with such scams.) - salimdistLv 41 decade ago
I think it's a trick, no one gets 1.5 million dollars without doing something, people would kill for that much money so I don't suppose you could just claim it. Also, I received something similiar but it was a Poker Promotion and I "supposedly" won 1 million in british pounds. I didn't trust the email and I deleted it because I never enlisted in a Poker program.
Second of all, don't give them any information, I saw a crime documentary in where a man using fake emails learn the location of girls so he could attack them.
Basically if you don't answer the email and block it from coming again then your fine.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Sorry friend but there is no internet e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information.
www.scambusters-419.co.uk
www.truthorfiction.com
.Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Well, as one answerer to the same dumb question said, "Hop on a plane, fly right over there and collect your money." This is the umpteenth one of these today. None of them are valid - they are all spam - and this scam has been running on the internet for YEARS!!!
- 1 decade ago
I bet they are going to need a deposit and or access to your bank account. By the way 1.500,000? You can add as many zero as you want after the decmial but that is still one and a half pounds.
- 1 decade ago
do not respond to this it is a fraud. These are called phishing emails and they will rob you blind. They really look offical but your best bet is to send it to yahoo so they can trace it and remove it
- Lost In SpaceLv 51 decade ago
That email was sent from Hong Kong. Are u chinese? There is no tel. no. or address. Don't be a kid and delete it. Just belive in reality
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Seems ligit but then most of them do nowdays...
I suggest you contact your claims adgent!