is yahoo having any lottery award center.?
Question by DEVENDER S: is yahoo having any lottery award center.?
ihave got a mail that i have won a lottery.is it is a fakeor genuine one.
Best answer:
Answer by gin
its a scam i think everyone got it. i contacted yahoo about mine and they said it was an outside company and not to give them any information
its a scam
Yahoo doesn’t make money by giving it away. It makes money by giving a damn good email service away. Isn’t that enough?
LOTTERY SCAM:-
Its purely a ‘SPAM’.Do not respond to any of those messages as they intend to steal your personal information.Also its enough for one E-mail to bait users into more of such lottery winning games.Its entirely a ‘FAKE’.Who would give you free money if you had never participated in any of the contests.?
Its an easy way of getting personal information and send you more of such messages to fill up your Inbox!.Yahoo keeps telling that they never send lottery E-mails to anyone saying that you’ve won XXX amounts. Never go to a site which has contests and hosts mail lotteries.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse/abuse-15.html
People get thousands of E-mails everyday saying that they’ve won lottery prizes and amounts and even go to the extent of claiming their prize.NEVER RESPOND TO IT!!
Folks are also getting duped by such kind of activities and fall to the trap of spammers!These lotteries confirm your working E-mail address and intend to send more of such mails
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse/abuse-63.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_scam
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/identify.php
Hope the above Info Helps!!
Best Wishes and Take Care 🙂
This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet. There is also 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/yahoo/mail/ya…
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/