I recieved an e-mail that I was a winner in a yahoo lottery. Does yahoo have such a lottery or is this a scam?

Question

I recieved an e-mail that I was a winner in a yahoo lottery. Does yahoo have such a lottery or is this a scam?

Answer 1

This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams. 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/or...

Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this 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 thieves. Please remember the messages 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/

Answer 2

Sounds extremely suspicious and I wouldn't trust it at all.

All e-mails from Yahoo have a purple Yahoo icon, so if there is none, don't trust it at all.