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LOTTERY RESULTS 2007
YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY
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CONGRATULATIONS!
Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the New Year 2007.

All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia , United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS ( $600.000 USD)

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Spanish representative office in Madrid Spain, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ( $600.000USD) will be released to you from this regional branch office in Madrid.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers.
Batch number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto number.......................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447
Serial number......Lwh0094478

Yahoo!'s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

UMESA SEGUROS ESPA脩A S.A
AVENIDA DE TORES 15.28006 MADRID SPAIN
CONTACT PERSON:MR.ROBERT WHITE
Tel: +34 663 710 692
Fax: +34 911 84 9893
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Telephone lines are open between the hours of
8:00am-19:30pm.Monday -Saturday ...Ext...001

You are to send the completed verification form below to the Agent in the Madrid Spain whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!

1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADRESS.
4. DATE OF BIRTH
5. OCCUPATION
6. TELEPHONE NUMBER
6. FAX NUMBER
7. MARITAL STATUS
8. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-selected winner or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,
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DR. Vinton G. Cerf
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.

Yahoo lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! Registered user


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I have received a similar email and my answer is always the same : Yahoo do not operate a lottery. This is a scam. 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. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them. Also if you receive an email impersonating Yahoo!, please forward the email to : mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com
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Not had this one, but have had hundreds like it. And they are all scams.

I've had something very similar through the post, they must think we're all idiots.

Tens of thousands

This and similar questions get asked about 200 times a week.

They're all scams to extract money from you. You will be asked up front for some fees, which they can't take from the winnings, then suddenly communication stops.

Bin it, or at least forward it to the fraud office. They won't do anything but at least you'll have tried.

I've gotten e-mails like that more times than I can count. Just delete them because they're ALL scams. Don't reply to them, don't send them any information, and certainly don't send them any money!

If you feel like giving the wanna-be scammers a bad day, you might report them to the "abuse" address at the domain where the mail came from. If you have Yahoo Mail and the message made it to your Inbox, go ahead and report it as spam. Other than that, "delete it and forget it" is the best policy for messages like that.