Has anyone recieved a letter of lottery winnings lately from the UK yahoo email ? This looks like a Real Scam.

From: "YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY" %26lt;microsoftuk1@bellsouth.net%26gt; Add to



Address Book Add Mobile Alert

To: agent1_smithjons@yahoo.co.uk

Subject: YAHOO/MSN PROMOTIONS {CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE A



WINNER} !!!

Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 10:38:48 -0400



Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incorporation Baley House, Har Road

Sutton, Greater London SM1 4te United Kingdom.



This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred

thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(拢500,000.00) for our Annual

2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN

LOTTERY INC %26amp; WINDOWS LIVE.



YAHOO/MSN %26amp; MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses



of the

people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to

Yahoo and Hotmail.We only select five people Annually as our winners

through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we

congratulate you for being one of the people selected.



You are to contact the events manager on or before your date of Claim,

Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from



date

of Draw Notification after the Drawdate in which Prize has won. Any

prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:



Batch number.....................YM 09102XN

Reff number.......................YM35447XN

Winning number...................YM09788



1. Full name..............

2. Contact Address........

3. Age....................

4. Telephone Number.......

5. Marital Status.........

6. Sex....................

7. Zip Code...............

8. Occupation.............

9. Company................

11.State:.................

12.Country................



(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)

Name:Mr.SMITH JONS

Email:agent_smithjons@yahoo.co.uk

TEL:+447011129844



Yours faithfully,

Mrs.Florina Bent

(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).





Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoporation

Baley House, Har Road Sutton, Greater London

SM1 4te

United Kingdom.



This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred

thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(拢500,000.00) for the month of

APRIL 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN

LOTTERY INC %26amp; WINDOWS LIVE.

You are to contact the events manager on or before your date of

Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement

Centre.

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from



date

of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any

prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................YM 09102XN

Reff number.......................YM35447XN

Winning number...................YM09788



These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to

contact the events manager, send your winning identification numbers



to

him,to enable him verify your claims.How ever you will have to fill and

submit this form to the events manager for verification %26amp; direction on

how you can claim your winning fund.

1. Full name..............

2. Contact Address........

3. Age....................

4. Telephone Number.......

5. Sex....................

6. Occupation.............

7.State:.................

8.Country................

9.Nationality...........



(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)

Name:Mr.Parker Lawson

E-mail:claimsagent_mic03@yahoo.co.uk



Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,

Mrs.Don Williams

(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).



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```Has anyone recieved a letter of lottery winnings lately from the UK yahoo email ? This looks like a Real Scam.
The English is written so poorly it's not even funny. I love how they try to make it sound impressive and really only succeed in butchering the language. It's just yet another tipoff that something is amiss.



"Great Britain Pound Sterlings" -- the correct term is "pounds sterling." (Sometimes it is referred to as the "British pound", but that is not the official term.)



Such details escape the intended victims as easily as they escaped the perpetrators of the scam, which is why the scam is still somewhat successful.
Did you enter anything? I'd bet it is a SCAM!Has anyone recieved a letter of lottery winnings lately from the UK yahoo email ? This looks like a Real Scam.
yeah, dude.... stop wasting your time. it's all garbage. mark as spam and move on.Has anyone recieved a letter of lottery winnings lately from the UK yahoo email ? This looks like a Real Scam.
Gee, you think someone that you don't know, living half way across the world, isn't going to actually just give you millions of dollars, why are you so non-trusting?



WAKE UP!!!!!!



There is no Easter Bunny either
Yes I won 20 million dollars playing that lotto. Good Luck
Every one of them gets deleted, along with the letters from Africa telling me how to get rich, and others that are from lawyers that found my long lost dead uncle and so on. Can you imagine, someone in Africa is going to make me rich LOLOLOL
I get about 12 of these type things every DAY!

Just delete them without even reading---they are ALL scams.



Even if you bought a ticket that won, the lottery commission wouldn't contact YOU, you have to go to THEM!
TOTAL PHISHING SCAM!!! REPORT AND DELETE
If it was real, why is microsoft or yahoo using a bellsouth.net email account.
Of course it is a scam. Delete delete
delete it.i got some thru earthlink.i never heard from them again.i emailed back.got nothing.delete them when you get them.
If you are already a victim contact the U.S. Secret Service via email. This address will be provided toward the end of this answer!



I would laugh at the proposed scam and surely not respond to the punks responsible.



There are many Nigerian scams that are showing up nowadays. Please read the following carefully:



I can guarantee you that if you listen to these punks you will lose every bit of money you have and never receive any prize money as such a prize does not exist.



Another new popular scam is the lottery scam:





There is no Overseas Lottery International, YAHOO %26amp; MSN Lotteries, Yahoo online dept., UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish Lottery, Yahoo Lottery Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. While some people might only copy and paste such email to their answer with a brief take on it, I will go into detail because I'm tired of this trash, as several of my friends have lost their a$$es to this scam. This is about as far away from legitimate as anything can get, whether it be a contest, promotion, or whatever. The Euro Asian whatever you talk about is a perfect example of how you can hand your lifesavings over to some fat-sweaty nigerian con-man (and your i.d. too).



There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades.



The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. If you even reply, you risk having your email inbox flooded. If you call these people, expect to be harrassed over the phone at all hours of the night! In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings in Nigeria are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy.



By the way, I have kind of become an anti-scam activists due to the fact that I have many friends who have had their identities and life savings stolen from them via these methods.



This is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question.



If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud. You can also read more about this at www.secretservice.gov and www.419eater.com!



If you have lost money you should report it to the U.S. Secret Service at www.secretservice.gov



Now you know the basics of Advance Fee Fraud, a multi-million dollar industry that costs honest people their life savings everyday. Be happy you weren't duped by this scam!



I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!
I've got the same email. Exactly the same words. It seems that we are not only 5! I am sure that is nothing because if it was true, the official site of YAHOO/MSN would say something. But there is nothing there....
yahoo don't have lottery therefore a scam, if u ever need further information on email/lottery scams http://scamsbeware.com is a good resource center to help you stay informed, best wishes.