Received an email from yahoo international promotions program re prize money. Is this a scam?

Question

received an email from Yahoo International Promotions Program held 15th April 2007. My email address ticket number drew the lucky numbers and consequently I've been approved for a lump sum. Requesting a lot of personal information in order to claim prize money. Please confirm that this is a scam !!

Answer 1

I got one too and another one from Gladwin Sweepstakes Incorporated.  It is listed on another scam site.  If Yahoo or anyone was doing this kind of "promotion" to gain sales or membership they would be bragging on their web page.  Scam.

Answer 2

RULE OF THE THUMB.

when sound "too good to be true."......it is not true.

or this one , " and You are the lucky winner,without  buying a ticket"

check this other." the check  for two millions is the mail ,I only need ....."

or the last I got " I am a lawyer from South Africa, You RELATIVE  pass away and let You  6 billions .......and such ...and such.... send me Your passaport. and I will....."

Answer 3

I got one too.  Don't even try to do it.  It is scam!!!

They tell you that you did win (a lot of money) then they need your personal info to send you documents to sign, then they send you an e-mail asking to choose which post service do you need (services are $500 to $1000) And it goes on and on... What to do about it?

Well you have a couple options...

Just ignore it.

Forward the whole thing to [e-mail]. Then have that marked as spam and deleted right away.

Answer 4

You betcha,best bet is to put them under spam and delete~using the name of Yawhoo wasn't the smartest thing to do to start with after all Yawhoo is no more than a rogue computer

Answer 5

Hi,

Friend, these days many Yahoo or MSN users are facing these problem. This will be a long answer but reading it will leave you happy. Many time you get mail or sms about these scams, they can be in these subjects and can try to take you in this fraud circle.

# A lottery from Yahoo or msn that you have won a lottery.

# Some dead account money will be transfered to you, and it is by it's manager or lawyer.

# You will allso be suprised when you got a mail that is future dated and comes from suspicious dates thaty are dated many years far. These e-mail can offer you some coupans or something more.

# That you will offered a free prize or laptop related scams or that is is form a courier company wining prizes.

# It comes saying it is from Yahoo staff pannel about services using and charges like payments or account deactivation, they can allso ask you to ingage in the spam circle, how? they will ask you to forward this message to another users.

# It can be a medical medicines scam too like medicines for sexual things.

# Or it can be a Adult e-mail as sexual material or abuse.

See, these all things are spam and meant for troubling users and filling the inboxes and to send fraud sms. The e-mail id's and the url from which the message sare send is fraud and inlegal. This is all fake and spam. Spam is any message that's sent to multiple recipients who haven't specifically requested the message. In other words, spam is c**p.Spammers typically purchase or harvest a list of email addresses. They send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. These messages tend to be "forged," to hide who actually sent them.

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Ok it's bye from me, hope it help's!