PROF. JOHN ROBERT LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.The Yahoo.com staff, is this man really a yahoo staff?

Question

Prof.John Robert have send me a mail saying that i have won a lottery organised by yahoo.

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a yahoo lotto and this is just one of many scams out there where they want to get your personal information so they can try to steal money from you.  This guy is a professor all right but what he teaches is Fraud 101 and he wants you to volunteer to be a victim :)

A.J.

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Answer 2

This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them, using their online form - (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 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 thieves who send them.

Check out these sites for further information :

http://www.scambusters.com

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/