Is it true that yahoo! just held a Lottery Draw?

Question

Is it true that yahoo! just held a Lottery Draw?

Answer 1

This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet including the Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them:

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

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

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/

Answer 2

Lottery scams like the e-mail that you received are know as Advance Fee Fraud. Named such because, to claim the (nonexistent) prize, you must pay fees in advance - usually by wiring money via Western Union or Money Gram.

There are many different Advance Fee Fraud scams, but the e-mail lottery seems to be a popular e-mail right now.

The lottery does not exist. If Yahoo! ever really did run a lottery, then wouldn't they advertise this on their Web site somewhere? (The real Yahoo site...not whatever link the scammer might have included in the scam e-mail.)

The odds of Yahoo, or any other Web site, starting a real lottery aren't good. Many people would just assume that it's a scam, as the lottery e-mails have all been scams, and ignore the whole thing.

The best thing to do is to simply delete the e-mail and forget all about it. If you report the e-mail to the provider, and the account is closed down, that might negatively effect a law-enforcement investigation.

Answer 3

No, they dont have a lottery. You just received spam email.

Answer 4

It's scam! Do not believe in what they say.