acctually i got a mail on my rediff Id that is:
WINNING NOTIFICATION.
Batch Number:..YM09102XN
Reff Number:…..YM35447XN
Winning Number:…..YM09788.
The YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS LOTTERY has set up a yearly
Promotional Lottery. Rolled out over was £100,000.000.00 for yearly
Draws.Winners for this draws were randomly selected and drawn from a
wide range of web hosts which we enjoy their patronage.
Your email address as indicated was drawn and attached to ticket number
0002/8795/727AZ with serial numbers SER/9080/07,and drew the
luckynumbers 14-21-25-39-40-47(20) which subsequently won you the cash
prize of £500,000.00 as one of the lucky jackpot winners in this
edition.
However,You are therefore been awarded to claim the winning sum of
(£500,000.00). The draws registered as Draw number Three (3) was
conducted in the month of August 2007.
VERIFICATION FORM FOR FUNDS RELEASE/FILL AND SUBMIT.
1. Full name:….
2. Contact Address:….
3. Country:….
4. State:….
5. Sex:..
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It’s fraud
You shouldn’t open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers.( http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam.html )
However, in this case since you have already opened up this email which is a probably a variant of the 419 Nigerian phishing scheme, display all headers and send it to Fraud Watch International. The email address is in the link to the webpage below.
http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/lottery/
There are a couple Yahoo pages dedicated to the 419 Fraud
Yahoo Lottery Fraud
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-63.html
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/abuse-110240.html
And you thought you were the ONLY person in the universe to get this, so you copied it for us all to read. Geez, this happens a dozen or more times a day here. This is spam email, this is a scam, there is no such thing as Yahoo – MSN – Microsoft – Windows, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., lottery. This scam has been running on the internet for years.
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.The following sites give more information. http://www.scambusters.org http://www.scambusters-419.co.uk The iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.
Lottery scam letters are sent out by the thousands and thousands every day.
There are only two things the bad guys want…. your money and your identity.
Unless you have bought a ticket, you CANNOT have won a prize. There are no such things as “email” draws or any other lottery where “no tickets were sold”.
Scam lottery emails will nearly always come from free email accounts such as Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, etc, and no real business will use a free email account.
If you have an email stating you have won millions, delete it, it’s a scam!!