Is Yahoo giving away prizes in the Hundreds of thousands dollars??

Is Yahoo offering winning for anything Big??? I recieved an email claiming I have won Hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's got yahoo written all over it, so I wanted to know if it was legit !!" T





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From: y.pl_015@hotmail.com


Subject: Confirmation winning Yahoo Awards‏‏‏‏


Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:49:55 +0200














YAHOO AWARDS CENTER


124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB - United Kingdom








This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Eight Hundred,Twenty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (£820,000,00.) for the month of October, 2007 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO AWARDS %26amp; WINDOWS LIVE.





YAHOO collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of th

Is Yahoo giving away prizes in the Hundreds of thousands dollars??
This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them.


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...


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. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.


Check out these sites for further information :


http://www.scambusters.com


http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
Reply:Yea .. that is SPAM .....
Reply:Sorry friend. If you did not buy a ticket remember this.You don't get anything for nothing, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.f you look for scams there are many sites giving more information. The iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.

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