How can I confirm the email from Yahoo Promotions Office, saying that my email have won in their lottery?
The promo was tagged as "Thanks For Contributing To Our Financial Success", Mrs. Amelia Hunts of Yahoo promotions Office (UK) sent me the Reference number, Batch number, Registered Lottery Number and Confidential Order Number. The email has a Yahoo finance logo, How can I confirm this email?
You have not won anything. Yahoo does not and never have operate any lottery. This is a SCAM. If you click on the below link this site confirms various email scams hitting the internet and provides an online form for the reporting of such, with links for your own country.
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/YahooLotteryScam_YahooMail2.php
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yoo2.phpahoo/…
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/
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It’s a scam. If you don’t believe me though then if you are using:
Google mail:
Viewing the email at the top right corner next to the reply button is a down pointing arrow, click it then click show original.
or
Yahoo! Mail:
Viewing the email, click the actions buton and click full header.
Look for a line that reads:
"Return-Path:" this will show the email of the real sender. The header also contains the list of IP addresses of every computer the message has passed through to get to you so the first IP address at the very bottom will be where it came from.
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Unfortunatley this is probably a scam, people scam you by pretending you have won prize and lotteries and stuff where you have to pay or give private information to collect, on which they will steal from you in some way (id theft/money etc), you could google the part of it like the subject which looks generic, not with your details or unique details and you should see some discussion/reports etc about that particular scam.
There are ways by viewing the source (or ’show original’ in google mail) where you can track where it came from but I would say it’s 99.99% a scam, i dont think there are many lotteries which do not require you to register an account (which it seems you dont have for this one).
Be careful/good luck!
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You have not won anything. Yahoo does not and never have operate any lottery. This is a SCAM. If you click on the below link this site confirms various email scams hitting the internet and provides an online form for the reporting of such, with links for your own country.
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/YahooLotteryScam_YahooMail2.php
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yoo2.phpahoo/…
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/
References :
Experience within Criminal Justice Dept. U.K. (dealt with various scams and frauds and innocent victims of them.)
Well, Edgar, did you enter that lottery, you know buy a ticket????? No??? You can not win something you did not enter or play. Besides Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, Microsoft, MSN and Aol do not have lotteries, reward programs, promotions, or contests.
When an E-mail offer sounds too good to be true, then it is definitely not true.
It is a scam to get your personal information and/or your money, or both!
Do not respond to it.
Report it, forward it to the FTC at spam@uce.gov and to the abuse desk of the sender’s ISP.
For yahoo, report them here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...
Choose Fraud as the reason for the violation you’re reporting on.
Also, if the E-mail appears to be impersonating a bank or other company or organization, forward the message to the actual organization.
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