Yahoo lottery. have any body ever won?

Question

Yahoo lottery. have any body ever won?

Answer 1

Yep!  I've won that a lot, each with different amounts (huge) of British pounds.  Besides that, I've also won MSN lottery, Microsoft lottery and countless other lotteries, all in British pounds with contacts coming from the UK.  In fact, I win a lot of huge amounts of British pounds several times a month.  But I know it's all a scam.  I won't answer to what I did not get myself involved in.  I also get emails from a "dying person" who has inherited huge amounts of British pounds who find me worthy of handling their money as they cannot trust anyone else.  It's all a scam.  I sure wish it was true, as I would have been richer than Bill Gates by now.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as a Yahoo! Lottery. The same goes for MSN, Google, Toyota, et cetera. You can double-check this fact for yourself by going to a fresh browser window and entering the company's URL. The company's real Web site does not mention anything about having a lottery. You might, at the most, find a fraud warning. But you won't find information about the Yahoo! Lottery because it does not exist.

The lottery scam is designed to separate you from your money. The scammer found your address somewhere on the Internet and included it in the mass e-mail that he sent out to many other potential victims.

Anybody who replies will be asked, at some point in the scam, to wire money for "fees." You won't see the lottery prize, but you *will* get requests for more money. This continues until you are either broke or have realized that you're being scammed. Either way, there is no prize.

Just delete the e-mail and forget all about the whole thing. Some people like to report the e-mail addresses to have the boxes closed, but this can interfere with a law-enforcement investigation.

You can also visit http://www.scamwarners.com to read about lottery scams and other, similar cons.

Answer 3

Of course not. It's not real.  You receive an unsolicited email, which states that you have won a major prize in an international lottery. Supposedly, your email address was collected online and attached to a random number that was subsequently entered in a draw for the lottery. In order to claim your prize, you are instructed to contact the official "agent" in charge of your case. You are also advised to keep the win confidential for "security reasons". This part of the scam is basically a random phishing expedition. If you respond in any way to the email, the scammers will send further messages or even contact you by phone in an attempt to draw you deeper into the scam.

You may be asked to provide banking details, a large amount of personal information, and copies of your driver's license and passport. Ostensibly, these requests are to prove your identity and facilitate the transfer of your winnings. However, if you comply with these requests, the scammers will have enough information to steal your identity.

Sooner or later, the scammers will request some sort of advance fee supposedly to cover administration, legal or delivery costs. At its core, this scam is just a reworking of the Nigerian loan fraud, in which scammers also eventually ask for upfront fees to facilitate the "deal". Like Nigerian scams, victims who do actually pay the requested fees will probably find that they receive continuing payment demands to cover "unexpected expenses". The requests for money will go on until the victim realizes what is happening or has no further money to send.

In some cases, the scammers give victims the option of opening an account at a particular bank as an alternative to paying upfront fees. However, this "bank" which is completely bogus, will insist on an initial deposit of $3000 as a requirement for opening the account. The fake bank will have a legitimate looking website to reinforce the scam. In other cases, the victim is given the option of travelling to an overseas destination and paying a cash fee to facilitate the release of the funds. However, any "winnings" released to the victim will be counterfeit and therefore worthless.

The details of the lottery scams vary regularly with regard to the name of the lottery itself, the country of origin, the sponsoring organization, the amount of the "prize" and other particulars. The scammers try to add a patina of legitimacy to their claims by mentioning real financial institutions, government departments or well-known companies. They may also provide links to slick looking, but fraudulent websites that are designed to back up information included in the scam emails. If the scammers are successful in establishing a dialogue with a potential victim, they may provide "proof" such as a scanned image of a supposed government official's ID and even photographs of the "winnings" in cash.

Complete list of SCAM e-mail addresses.

http://www.419baiter.com/_scam_emails/sc...

Answer 4

probably, thats why its there