PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM:We are sorry that your payment approval file was sent to Africa due to the fact, that we have a qualified and good representative agent in Africa. Yahoo! and Microsoft Windows arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscrive at Yahoo! Hotmail and others we only selected Three candidates as our winners after undergoing the random selection process through Electronic Balloting System without the candidate applied, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected. Yahoo! Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of Draw Notification .
Prize money of $250,000,00GBP transferred into an ATM MasterCard to curtail the risk of carring huge amount of money around.We are the people that instructed our African paying banks send you the money through ATM Master Card for easy assessment of your money in your country. They are going to send someone who is going to give you guide lines on how to make use of it. Note they are going to reactivate the card so it won’t expire before delivery.Send Id info iand Prize Id numbers to Craig Martins at hi email craigmartins1969@hotmail.com
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.KEEP THIS PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL YOU RECEIVE YOUR PRIZE MONEY. NOTE THAT NOBODY OR EVEN THE APPOINTED BANK HAS THE RIGHT TO TOUCH DEDUCT/CUT OR GET ACCESS TO YOUR PRIZE MONEY FOR ANY REASON THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED STRICTLY! Is this another one of those famous scams?
I received an emai from Yahoo/Hotmail Lottery Promo saying my email has won prize of the year. Is this a scam?
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Yes, this is called a Nigerian e-mail scam. It is a scam and they want you to give your credit card info to pay the initial payment before you get your “prize.” In reality, they will empty your bank account.
It’s a scam thousands of these deceptive emails are sent every day there used to commit identity theft, or try to get you to send money. DO NOT send any bank/personal details click the link below to see what yahoo say about this.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-63.html
You can report this with the mail abuse form below.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse.html
To report a phishing attempt with the form below.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/security/forms/phishing.html
Or you can forward a phishing attempt email to the address below.
phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com.
it may be a spam!!!
go to the website or email them what they specified but if they ask u your social security no in advance or any of your personal details prior to sending you a copy of check then it surely is a spam.
You should see on their website if there is some information in fine prints!!!
coz i had some google jobs spam but on their website it was written in fine prints that Google has nothing to do with it!!!
be careful man It is gonna be a spam!! otherwise congrats you may be the next millionare
That is a complete scam. If you ever get an E-mail in the future that says anything about sending money to Africa or anything to do with Africa, just delete it. Its called the Nigeria E-mail scam.
It gets you to send money or something to Africa where your supposedly suppose to get more money or something, but every time the most you’ll get is with these humerous scammers who instead send you a T-Shirt that says “I sent my money to Africa/Nigera and only got this.” Although I also hear you can buy those…
Anyways its a well-known scam, so dont do it. Like I said, if you ever get an suspicious E-mail that has anything to do with Africa, just delete it.
Oooooh, sorry about that, your payment approval was sent to Africa. If you will only pay us umpty dollars, or pounds, or francs, or whatever, we’ll get it straightened out for you. Yeah, right. And I’m going to be dancing with Tom Hanks on Dancing with the Stars next week! Spam is spam – it’s unsolicited email that you never should have opened. You haven’t won a prize because the Yahoo/Hotmail Lottery doesn’t exist.
I say certainly on both counts, so here’s why: That message is both a fake and an outright fraud. Don’t give the phishers 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.
This is a SCAM. If you click on the below link this site confirms various email scams hitting the internet and provides an online form for the reporting of such, with links for your own country.
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscam_Yahoo.php
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yoo2.phpahoo/...
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. Please remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace.
Check out these sites for further information :
http://www.scambusters.com
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
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