Got an email from Yahoo about winning in England, is it a trick?

FROM: THE DESK OF THE CLAIMS DIRECTOR,


YAHOO INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT,


REF: YAHOO6/315116127/27


BATCH: 8254297137


Registered Lottery No 220949


(Thanks for contributing to our Financial Success)





Attention Winner,





This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash


prize of £500,000.00 Pounds. This email promotion was held on


the 11th of April 2008 in London United Kingdom. Your e-mail


address attached to ticket number 883734657492-5319 with serial


number 7263-267, batch number 8254297137 drew the lucky numbers


14-22-28-37-40-44 which consequently won in the 1st category,


you have therefore beenapproved for a lump sum pay out of


£500,000.00 (i.e. five Hundred Thousand United Kingdom Pounds


Sterling) in cash credited to file REF: YAHOO6/315116127/27.


To file for your claims you are to contact our REMMITANCE DIRECTOR


for further information.





NAME: HENRY HALE (REMMITANCE DIRECTOR)


EMAIL: r_director@yahoo.com.hk


Tel: +44 7747372589





You are hereby advised to provide our claims department with the


following information: REF Number, Batch number, Winning Email


Address. Thereafter you will directed by your remittance officer


on how to claim your prize.





YAHOO PROMOTION is a free service that does not require you to


register or be a Yahoo registered user before winning. You have


received this message from Yahoo International PROMOTIONS prize


dept because you have visited one of our sponsored sites and have


voluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their


sponsors. Your email address was selected along side ten lucky


winners around the world who have there email voluntarily given


to receive mails from various site that we sponsor around the world.





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Mrs.Sherrell Barber (Zonal Coordinator)


YAHOO! PROMOTIONS

Got an email from Yahoo about winning in England, is it a trick?
This is a scam thousands of these emails are sent


every day DO NOT send any cash or personal details


mark as spam, click the link below to see what


yahoo say about this.


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
Reply:This is a scam. Do not respond to it, and do not click on the links in the e-mail. Clicking on a link can bring you to a virus loaded address, or it can install a tracking cookie or several of them.
Reply:no this is a scam and many have been going out to people just like yourself.It is spam so spam it and delete it and that way no more like it should come again.
Reply:Had the same emailmate, i binned it, by the way there are other scams going around saying you have won in a sweepstake, thats a lot of crap if you pardon the expression. Oh and one more, a company saying you can do mystery shopping for them, but they are asking for money up front for admin, so dod that dave xx
Reply:Did you sign up for a yahoo! lottery? Did you buy a ticket? No, you didnt.





Its a scam. All internet lotteries are scams. More than likely from Nigeria. You send them you personal information and they id theft you.





They are preying on the fact that when people see "free money" that they will jump on it without thinking. And unfortunantly it works.





If you ever get an email like this again, dont even open it, just delete it. Many of these scam emails use what is called a "pixel pic" to see if you opened it or not. Not going into alot of detail, it is a pic in the email the size of one pixel, and when you open the email, it downloads the pic from their website. Now they know that someones actually checks that email address, and you will get more and more spam/scams in your email.
Reply:Yes it is a scam. If you email back with the details they ask for I can guarantee the next thing they will ask you for is money, usually in the form of a small ‘holding fee’ which all the people who fall for it pay and end up not getting back. Well done for questioning it!
Reply:Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information


http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri...


http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt...


http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...


.Also If you go to the following site 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