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Messenger Yahoo! 2008 Lottery Results You won 拢800,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates
you! Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo! 2008 Lottery
Draw. All 10 winning email addresses were 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 of 800,000.00 GBP
(EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING).
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British Representative Office
in the United Kingdom, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of 800,000.00 GBP
will be released to you from this regional branch office in the United Kingdom(UK). Your
identification numbers are: Batch Number..Lwh 09445, Lotto Number..Lwh 09446, Winning
Number..Lwh 09447.
To file for claim, fill out This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet and how to report them.
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
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/ This is a scam thousands of these emails are sent
every day DO NOT send any cash or personal details
mark as spam, click the link below to see what
yahoo say about this.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or... It's a scam. The email is from a criminal trying to steal your information (identity) or your money (they'll probably ask you to send them a "claim fee" or some such baloney). Just delete it. We all get these scams in our emails. Blocking Domains And Using Filters Work
Did You Sign Up For The Lottery Etc ??
Yahoo Has No Lottery Or ( ANY ) Way To Win Money
Read About This Scam
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...
UK And Microsoft Scams
http://www.lottery.co.uk/html/scamtop.ht...
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/microsoft-wor...
the below information is for yahoo mail
but the steps may be close for other providers
Blocking A Sender Using The All New Mail
( clicking the spam button only REPORTS the spam to yahoo but does not block emails from that email address )
click the spam button to report the spam
to block the sender manually
on the top right side of mail page
click options
then mail options
click contact options
on the left click mail
then click general preferences
then block addresses
type in the email address
click add block
if you are getting alot of spam from a certain domain
you will see block domains to
this will be after the @ sign in the email
example @yahoo.com
yahoo.com is the domain
be carefull of the domains you block
obviously you dont want to block yahoo.com
that would stop all email from people with yahoo email addesses
Blocking A Sender Using Yahoo Classic
click the spam button
to add addresses manually to blocked senders list
on top right side of mail page
choose options
then choose block addresses
type in the email address
if you are getting alot of spam from a certain domain
you will see block domains to
this will be after the @ sign in the email
example @yahoo.com
yahoo.com is the domain
be carefull of the domains you block
obviously you dont want to block yahoo.com
that would stop all email from people with yahoo email addesses
Bulk Email
bulk email is when the same email is sent to alot of people by just sending one email
an easy way to spam alot of people in just a few clicks of the mouse
Bulk Email Settings For The all New Mail
click options on top right side of mail page
then click mail options
then click spam
put a check beside
Automatically send suspected spam to my Spam folder
Bulk Email Settings For Classic
click options on the top right side of mail page
then spam protection
and set the setting to delete immediately upon arrival
Report Spam And Scams To These Email Addresses
spoof@yahoo-inc.com
spam@uce.gov
abuse@yahoo.com
Report Abuse Form
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/a...
Report A Website
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/securit...
Use Filters To Automatically Have Email Sent To A Folder
Then you can delete all those emails in 3 clicks
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...
http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/... If you did not enter,then it will pobably be a scam. Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information
http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri...
http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt...
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...
.Also If you go to the following site 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 | 