Is Yahoo paying lottery winnings from England? I have been notified I am a winner.?

Question

Notification says Yahoo, Microsoft and MSN are parternered in a monthly drawing at random from Yahoo emails.

Answer 1

Send a copy of the email to yahoo msn and microsoft . Then delete your copy and think no more about it .

No lottery works without taking your money period .

Answer 2

The e-mail that you received is a scam. The lottery that you supposedly won is just a con that a scammer is using to get you to send him money. This whole thing seems too good to be true because it IS too good to be true.

Fake lottery scams are very simple. The scammer finds your e-mail address somewhere on the Internet and adds it to the mass-mailing list. He bombards hundreds, if not thousands, of e-mail addresses with the lottery e-mail.

Anybody who replies is being scammed. The con artist will soon ask the victim to wire money for "fees." There might be a courier fee to have the lottery check delivered, for example. Or maybe the victim is supposed to send money to cover taxes or insurance.

After the victim sends the first payment, the scammer will return with another excuse. The victim will continue sending money until he or she is either broke, or realizes that the whole thing is a scam. Either way, the money that was sent to the bad guy is gone - and the victim never sees so much as a hint of the prize money.

To confirm that the e-mail you have is a scam, do one or more of the following:

Copy part of the original e-mail and paste it into a search engine. Anti-scam sites archive and publish known scam e-mails in an effort to help potential victims before they fall for the scams.

If you received an e-mail that claims to be from a company like Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Toyota, et cetera, open a fresh browser window and manually enter that company's official Web site address. The company will have, at the most, a fraud warning. But you will not find advertising about the company's so-called lottery. This is because these companies do not have lotteries.

When you receive e-mails that claim to be from real lotteries (like the UK Lottery), go visit the official Web site. There is usually an anti-fraud warning present. Real lottery commissions do not have your e-mail address. How can they notify you that you won if you didn't give them this information? And if you never bought a ticket for that lottery, then how can you win? You cannot, because lottery commissions do not give away tickets for free. If they did, then they would quickly run out of money for the prize pool.

If you still aren't sure, you should contact your local police department. Many departments are aware of these scams, and will tell you that the person who sent you this e-mail is a con artist who is simply trying to take your money.

The best thing to do when you receive one of these e-mails is to simply delete it and move on. Reporting the user to the provider to have the e-mail account closed can interfere with an active law-enforcement investigation.

You can also warn people you know about these scams. The more people we all tell, the fewer potential victims these low-life scammers will have.

http://www.scamwarners.com is an excellent Web site for more information about fake lottery scams and other, similar cons.

Answer 3

It is a hoax. Did you enter a lottery in England? If not, then you should know better. Never give your private information to anyone. That is a scam. Delete it and mark it as spam.

Answer 4

forward it onto me thanks...

Answer 5

There is no such thing as a Yahoo/MSN lottery. Its just a scam and i think most of the users here have recieved an emil telling them they have won a Yahoo/MSN lottery.

Just spam the email straight away.

Answer 6

IT's a SCAM. A rather old one.

Answer 7

Definitely fake. Do not provide any information or payment. In fact, don't reply to it at all - simply delete it and forget it.

Answer 8

Do not reply . Do not give your personal details .

The modus operandi ( The mode of operation ) is usually to ask the sucker to pay some amount in advance to cover incidental expenses . And that is the last thing one hears about them .

Kindly Contact Yahoo and confirm . Till then mum .