is it right that yahoo online lottery award team announced the lucky draw of winners?

Question

Dear Winner,

The Local Organising Committee of the YAHOO ONLINE AWARD TEAM
is glad to announce to the world the giving away of the sum of FIFTY
MILLION POUNDS to 100 lucky email addresses all over the world.
This promotion is in Appreciation of our International Support for the
Yahoo Online User and the correspondent earnings at the stock
market which was far beyond our projected quarterly earnings.

Be informed that all winners in this program have been selected
randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 1,500,000
companies and individual e-mail addresses database. Your email
address happened to be one of the lucky winner of £500,000 (FIVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLINGS) among the
Hundred email addressess chosen. In order to claim your prize,
you will have to fill the form below and send it back to us for
verification and then you will be informed on how your Cashier's
Check for the sum which has already been deposited with your email
contact.

Answer 1

You don't get anything for nothing, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information.

www.scambusters.org

www.hoaxbusters.ciac.org

www.scambusters-419.co.uk

www.truthorfiction.com

.Also If you go to the following link 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.

Answer 2

It is scam. Yahoo (insert any company name here, this answer works for all!) do not run an email lottery, if they did you could guarantee it would be advertised all over their home page. Check out these links and search answers to see how many people 'win' the exact same lottery every day



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lottery_sca...

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



Do not click on any links, the page you will be taken to will look authentic but is not

Do not send them a 'courier fee' or any other money

Do not hand over any bank details or passwords



Do report spam

Do delete



Remember there is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot win a lottery if you haven ot bought a ticket. Anyone can set up an email account with Yahoo, they can use any combination of letters they choose. I could be '[e-mail]' or '[e-mail]' That doesn't mean that I am either of these and is fine as long as I don't try to use the address to mislead people. Don't be fooled by legitimate looking email addresses which end the same way as any other free account, don't be fooled by fictitious titles such as 'Dr' or 'Executive Director of Winner Claims'.





(I've answered this question so many times that I now keep this answer on my desktop and just copy and paste....that should give you a clue!)

Answer 3

SCAM - Yahoo and MSN have no lottery Just google Yahoo/MSN lottery scam and you'll see how many times it's been reported over the past 10 years. If you mark as Spam it will be reported to Yahoo

Answer 4

This is a scam! Do Not open or respond to these emails. In the last month I have "won" over two hundred million dollars from emails just like you received. I have gotten emails from Yahoo, Coco-Cola, Microsoft, etc. I wish I could stop these emails. Let me know if you find out how to do it.

Answer 5

Wow. Something for nothing! Strange that you have to ring a mobile number to claim your prize and they want a few thousand pounds handling fee to send you your winnings.



Give me a fiver instead, it's cheaper and I won't get your hopes up.

Answer 6

SCAM ALERT!!



They are after your bank details, they are phishing. Delete it.

Answer 7

omg!! congratulations on being a whole day old x

Answer 8

This is a scam delete it.

Answer 9

Don't be a muppet all your life !

Answer 10

haxey

Answer 11

no