Yahoo! UK & Ireland
Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB - United Kingdom
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of SIX
HUNDRED,THOUSAND POUNDS Great Britain Pounds ( £600,000.00) for the
2007 Promotion which is Organized by YAHOO AWARDS & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO! collects all the email addresses of the people that are active
online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few
from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit
from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.
Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw
Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be
forfeited.
Stated below are your identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER: YPA/07/APA-43658
REF
Answers & Comments
Verified answer
This a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them.
http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lotteryscam_...
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/
These apply to any prizes "won"
Rule # 1. Never pay them anything. No Processing fees, no advance taxes, nothing. Any taxes come off the top of the amount before you get it.
Rule # 2. If they send you a check and and instructions to pay the "taxes" back to them, don't. There are lots of fake checks out there.
did you actually enter such a contest? While some places may give away small prizes unsolicited, a prize that big, is suspicious
Same question asked at least 50 times here. The answer, SCAM, SCAM, do not reply. Do not think someone is going to give that kind of money away at random. No way. Next they will ask u for money to process the winnings or ur bank info in order to deposit the money into ur account. Don`t bite.
You don't get anything for nothing, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information.
www.scambusters.org
www.hoaxbusters.ciac.org
www.scambusters-419.co.uk
www.truthorfiction.com
.Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.
It's a scam,,,,don't even open the mail...