I have received email advising that I have won 2 million dollars in this promotion. One person even called me on my mobile saying that I have to pay insurance cover of 2000 euro dollars to the Courier co so that the draft of 2 million could be forwarded to me. Even he has emailed me the draft on my name. I feel that he is fooling me to get the 2000 euro dollars claiming it to be insurance cover. Can please the Yahoo people let me know the truth. Even the Yahoo Y in red is in the email sent by him. Could any one please email me on plppraveen@yahoo.com and let me know the truth This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of several email scams including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scam and how to report them :
http://www.hotscams.com/articles/777/1/L...
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/ 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
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http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...
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the below information is for yahoo mail
but the steps may be close for other providers
Blocking A Sender In 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 For 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/... 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... | 