Lottery scam quick guide: it's a scam if...

  • you win any lottery where you didn't buy a ticket! It's really that easy! It's not just too good to be true: it's bait in a trap!
  • you receive a generous grant out of the blue. Sadly (but not surprisingly) there aren't any benevolent people regularly throwing around millions of pounds/dollars/euros to randomly chosen people. This is just the lottery scam without the ticket.
  • they send you partial payment in the form of a cheque, money order, or direct bank transfer and want you to pay them fees out of that money. They're playing you for a sucker: cheques are frequently forged, and direct transfers made by compromising some poor schmuck's online banking service. You'll wind up a victim of fraud, or a party to it.
  • they want you to send them any money of any sort for any reason. They might try to say there are courier fees or taxes to cover. They're lying. Call their bluff and tell them to take the fees out themselves -- they'll never ever agree, because they can't defraud you unless money is making the reverse trip from you to them somehow.

Friday, November 09, 2007

2007/2008 Email Lottery Promotion

Yahoo Inc.
Customer Care.
701 First Avenue.
Sunnyvale,CA 84089
USA.
 
 
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (US$500,000.00) in the YEAR 2007/2008 YAHOO! Lottery  promotion which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC for the introduction and Launching of the newYAHOO ! BETA MAIL which all YAHOO! subscribers are required to switch to.
    YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the Millions that subscribe at YAHOO!, HOTMAIL and others we only selected THREE (3) candidates as our winners after undergoing the random selection process through Electronic Balloting System ( E.B.S) without the candidate applied, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
 
                PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
 You are to contact the Claim Agent Reverend Dr Larry Barnes who will issue you a clearance paper as a winning certificate approved and certified from our Regional office in London UK and your prize money will be released to you from any of our regional promotion banks as directed by the claim agent.
YAHOO! Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification  in which Prize has been won.
 
Note: Any prize not claimed within this period 15 days) will be forfeited.
 
IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:
Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-390AF
Reff number........................YBM-EBS-719AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-798AF

 These numbers above fall within the United Kingdon  Location files, you are requested to contact him and send your Identification Numbers and Personal Information to him; 
Reverend Dr Larry Barnes Claim agent and verification officer
 
Email address: drjames.wright@hotmail.com Tel:          +447024075434
 
You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate and process the transfer of your fund with any of our Bank promotion agents.
Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him so that he will proceed further for your prize claim immediately:
 
PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. Full Name:......................................
2. Nationlity/Religion:.............................
3. Contact Address:..................................
4. Telephone Number:.................................
5. Fax Number:.......................................
6. Date of Brith:....................................
7. Occupation...................................
8. Age...............................................
9. Sex...............................................
10. Atternative E-mail address:.......................
11. Next of Kin of the Beneficlary incase..............
12.Amount in USD won....................
 
You are advised to keep your winning information confidential to avoid double claim  and abuse of the program until your prize is paid to you.
 
We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!
You select how to transfer the prize money to you
 
1. Account Transfer to your nominated account
2. Cheque Delivery
 
This prize will be released to you from any of our promotional banks as will be directed by the UK Claim/verification agent.
 
 
Note: No amount should be allowed to be deducted from your prize money as a contractual agreement between this board and the paying bank.
 
                 Yahoo! UK & Ireland
This e-mail is from Yahoo! Head Office USA and approved by the Yahoo! UK Ltd, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8AD.       
        
     Copyright © 2007 Yahoo!Inc.All rights reserved

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