I recieved an email that states i won a 1.2M british pound from the lottery conducted by yahoo, is this true?

Question

It says that yahoo is conducting a lottery every month and pick up 5 winners randomly

Answer 1

Nope, if you didn't enter anything you didn't win anything. This is all a hoax to get your info to bilk you of money of other stuff. Yahoo doesn't do stuff like this.

Answer 2

I'm sure it's just a scam. If you really did win a lottery as big as that, you would've gotten a formal document in the mail.

Answer 3

No it is not true. It is what they call a "419 scam" do not be fooled and do not reply.  I have investigated it pretty well and the best advice is to delete the message and don't think about it.  If you give them half a chance they will steal what ever they can.

Answer 4

you can't win a lottery that you didn't apply for so unless you were a part of that lottery, the answer's noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

do not repeat not respond to this email it is a con, they do this as a means of identity fraud they will ask for all your personal details, i receive about six of these a day, just delete from your mailbox

Answer 6

It's a scam and I'm shocked anyone still falls for this since it has pretty much been shown to be a scam for years now

Answer 7

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...

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/