Is that e_mail oiginal or fake?
ByFrom: Yahoo!
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR EMAIL HAS BEEN SELECTED AND HAVE WON YOU 500, 000.00 ON YAHOO! LOTTERY FRANCE INC.
To:
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 1:22 PM
Yahoo! Inc.
Customer Care .
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
USA.
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred
Thousand (500,000.00 GB POUND) in the YEAR 2008/2009 YAHOO! Lottery
promotion which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC FRANCE for the
introduction and Launching of the new YAHOO ! 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!,HOT MAIL, AOL MAIL, GOOGLE MAIL and Others WEB MAIL. 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 with your email address.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
You are to contact the Claim Agent Dr.Barry Wright who will issue you a
clearance paper as a winning certificate approved and certified from our
Regional office in Abidjan, Cote D’ Ivoire Sub-Region of France 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
Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our ABIDJAN, COTE
D’ IVOIRE Regional booklet representative office in ABIDJAN, COTE D’
IVOIRE as indicated in your play coupon. In view of this, your (Five
Hundred Thousand GB Pounds) will be released to you by any of our payment
regional offices in ABIDJAN, COTE D’ IVOIRE, sub-regional in FRANCE
Precisely.
CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT BELLOW AND CALL HIM
Our Africa Fiduciary Claims Agent:
Dr.Barry Wright
Official Email Address:
claimsbarrywright008@live.com
customercare-claim-agent@inMail24.com
Tele: +22504907776
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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. Nationality/Religion:………………………………
3. Contact Address:…………………………………..
4. Telephone Number:………………………………….
5. Fax Number:……………………………………….
6. Date of Birth:………………………………… …
7. Occupation………………………………………..
8. Age………………………………………………
9. Sex………………………………………………
10.Alternative E-mail address:…………………..
11.Next of Kin of the Beneficiary ……………………..
IMPORTANT NOTE: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 bank
2. Cheque Delivery
This prize will be released to you from any of our promotional banks as
will be directed by the France Claim/verification agent.
Yahoo! France & Ireland
Copyright © 2009 Yahoo Inc!. All rights reserved
3 Comments
December 25th, 2009 at 1:54 am
That email is a scam.
A company will not give out money unless there is something in it for themselves? Due to the number of lottery scams no legitimate company would ever notify you by email that you have won a prize.
Every email that states you have won a lottery or there is money waiting for you is a scam. There will be a followup asking for a prepayment of some type of fee to receive the money. Haven’t you noticed that even though you have won 100 million your name appears nowhere in the email? It may not even contain your email address. If people were winning 100 million every day it would be on the news with pictures of the lucky people.
Unless you enter a lottery or contest, such as with one of the magazine companies, any notification is a scam. If you get 100 million you will not be notified by email.
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December 25th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Scam
There is no Yahoo or MSN or Hotmail or Google or any other lottery. If you did not enter a lottery there is no way you could win.
Do you seriously think companies like Yahoo just give away money for free to random people?
The address at the top of the page is from California in the USA. The bottom of the page says France and Ireland. So why would the money be coming out of Africa? And why would Yahoo ever use an @live.com email address that belongs to their competitor MSN??? There are so many red flags in this one post that I can’t believe anyone could even think this might be for real
December 25th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Scam!!!!! That message is both a fake and an outright fraud. Don’t contact the phishers and give them any of your personal information at all. Spam that scam message straight into oblivion right away. This is one lottery you’ll never win because it’s “bogus.”
Another thing, the phishers telling you to “keep this lottery information confidential” would indicate to you not to say anything about this to anybody until they have finished scamming you.