Does Yahoo hold a lottery each year on July 1?

Question

Been notified of having won in the 2008 Yahoo lottery and wonder if it is a con!

Answer 1

There is no such thing as Yahoo lottery.  This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet. There is also an online form for the reporting of such - (with links for your own country.)

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...

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/

Answer 2

con

Answer 3

Scam.  I get notices of these stupid things all the time.  I've won billions in non-existent lotteries I never entered.  Seems like everybody wants to send me millions of dollars at a clip.

Answer 4

It is a SCAM  we all get 100's of those each week

just delete it

Answer 5

bogus....