Yahoo Lottery?

Ok so I got this email saying i won a million bucks from yahoo lottery. i didn't know if it was legit or not since it didn't go to my junk mail. Uh so is this thing real or fake? hereis what it said:





"YAHOO LOTTERY INC


Yahoo Lottery Incorporation


Barley House Harold Road


Sutton, Greater London United kingdom





Hello Madam/Sir





We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of One


million US


DOLLARS ($1,000,000) from this first month of April 2007 lottery win


promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTORY INC every


month.YAHOO,collects


all the mail identity of the people online yahoo messenger and among


the


millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we only select five people


every


Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the


winner


applying, we are Congratulation you for having been one of the people


elected."

Yahoo Lottery?
Hi,


Friend, these days many Yahoo or MSN users are facing these problem. This will be a long answer but reading it will leave you happy. Many time you get mail or sms about these scams, they can be in these subjects and can try to take you in this fraud circle.


# A lottery from Yahoo or msn that you have won a lottery.


# Some dead account money will be transfered to you, and it is by it's manager or lawyer.


# You will allso be suprised when you got a mail that is future dated and comes from suspicious dates thaty are dated many years far. These e-mail can offer you some coupans or something more.


# That you will offered a free prize or laptop related scams or that is is form a courier company wining prizes.


# It comes saying it is from Yahoo staff pannel about services using and charges like payments or account deactivation, they can allso ask you to ingage in the spam circle, how? they will ask you to forward this message to another users.


# It can be a medical medicines scam too like medicines for sexual things.


# Or it can be a Adult e-mail as sexual material or abuse.





See, these all things are spam and meant for troubling users and filling the inboxes and to send fraud sms. The e-mail id's and the url from which the message sare send is fraud and inlegal. This is all fake and spam. Spam is any message that's sent to multiple recipients who haven't specifically requested the message. In other words, spam is crap.Spammers typically purchase or harvest a list of email addresses. They send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. These messages tend to be "forged," to hide who actually sent them.





Yahoo is committed to eliminating spam—eyuck! And you've got great tools to help keep spam out of your Inbox.





Yahoo! SpamGuard





Keep Yahoo! SpamGuard turned on. To check if it’s on:





Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.


Click Spam Protection from the list on the left.


In the “Spam Filter” section, do you see “SpamGuard is ON”? If not, turn it on by clicking the link: Turn SpamGuard ON.


In the area above your spam options, click Save Changes.


In this same section, you can also specify how often you’d like us to empty your Bulk folder (we do it automatically once a month, but you have options to empty it faster), as well as indicating your preference for showing—or blocking—images. Image blocking is another way to fend off spam!


Image Blocking


The Spam button





If you get a spam message in your Inbox, check the box beside it, then click Spam. This alerts us to the latest tricks and techniques that spammers are using, and helps us clamp down tighter and fight spam more effectively.





If you change your mind or think you made a mistake, just look for the next message from that sender in your Bulk folder and click Not Spam to reverse your vote.





What should you not do with spam%26gt;%26gt;%26gt;





Never open a spam message (or any message from a sender you don’t recognize) unless you have the "Block HTML graphics" setting on. If you view HTML images in an email, spammers are alerted that you opened their message. So how do you turn on the Block HTML function?


Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.


Under “Management”, click General Preferences.


Scroll down to the “Messages” section, and next to “Security:”, check the box beside “Block HTML graphics in email...”


At the bottom of the page, on the left, click Save.


Never respond to spam. To the individuals who send spam, one response or "hit" among thousands of mailings is enough to justify the practice.


Never respond to the spam email's instructions to reply with the word "remove" unless you trust or know the sender. Many spammers use the "remove" or "unsubscribe" links as a ploy to get you to react to the email. This may alert the sender that your email address is open and available to receive mail, which greatly increases its value. If you reply, your address may be placed on more lists, resulting in more spam.


Never click on a URL or web site address listed within a spam email. This could alert the site to the validity of your email address, potentially resulting in more spam.


Never sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from spam lists. Although some of these sites may be legitimate, more often than not, they are address collectors. The legitimate sites are ignored (or exploited) by the spammers, and the address collection sites are owned by spammers. In both cases, your address is recorded and valued more highly because you have just identified that your address is active.





Ok it's bye from me, hope it help's!
Reply:For the people who are involved with this fraud. You don't have the right to play with the persons feelings and emotions. They became happy when they are notified and really feel fist off once they knew that it isn't true..For you guys remember that what goes around comes around andthe word KARMA.. Report It

Reply:Spam/scam mail. Yahoo is not nor has ever been based out ot the United Kingdom.
Reply:Spam it.
Reply:Sorry to tell you BUT............


It's fake





"if it sounds too good to be true? .. it is"
Reply:Yahoo DOES in fact have a presence in the UK. However, they don't run lotteries. If they did, you would see it advertised ALL over the Yahoo sites. It's a SCAM. Just delete those emails when they arrive.