Yahoo / Msn / Windows Live Promotional Lottery — Lottery scam!

Hi there,

i feel this absolutely a scam reason being i have also received same kind of couple of days back. I try to track almost every information recevied. Maximum were correct but for bank account mentioned by Patrick (delivery manager) is highly negative. so please help me in letting me know the correct story or funny thing people can ever thought of.

Regards
Ashis

Dear, Sir/Madam,

YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION
We happily announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Intl Inc
programs held on the 23th of August 2007 in London. Your e-mail address
attached to ticket number: [protected] 188 with Serial number 5388/02
drew the lucky numbers:[protected], which subsequently won you the
lottery in the 2nd category.You are therefore, been approved to claim a
total sum of #250,000.00 for the month ofAugust 2007 lottery win
promotion which is organized by MSN & YAHOOLOTTORY INTL INC .Every month.
CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT CONTACT INFORMATION
contact person: Mr Nick Marshall
( winners Directorate Office )
Email: [protected]@yahoo.co.uk
Tel:+[protected]
Serial number 5388/02
Winning number...................Lwh09788
Congratulations once more!!
Yours Sincerely,
Dr JOHNSON BAKE O(PHD)
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.

Dear Friends,



I have few mails(about 30 emails from 12/nov 2007 to current period) from national lottery, but after that all were fraud. Please read below mails!





Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 5:16:19 -0800
From: "FREE LOTTERY POMOTION" <[protected]@adelphia.net> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: FREE LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

The Free Lotto Sweepstakes,
PO Box 42 Peterborough
PE3 8XH
UNITED KINGDOM
Ref No: MELI-T/ 17-F[protected]
Batch No:901/00319/HLP
Zonal Draw No: GMLA2-003
Grand Draw No: 12099

NOTIIFICATION NOTIFICATION NOTIFICATION

We are pleased to inform you of the announcement today of your
selection as one of the five winners of the promotional Free Lotto
Sweepstakes held recently as part of our EXPERIMENTAL BONANZA.

You have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
(?500.000.00(G.B.P).the value of the amount comes to ($917,956.00USD) Nine Hundred
and Seventeen thousand, Nine hundred and fifty-six United States
Dollars.

We in the Free Lottery Sweepstakes is by this program,Launching our
model computer balloting lottery draws, developed and designed to satisfy
the cravings of the ever-growing number of participants in our various
lottery programs.With funds accrued exclusively from previous
draws,payouts to all winners are guaranteed and will be transferred in record
time.conducted in view of launching ourselves into the Sweepstakes
Industry Worldwide and zoning all participants by their respective
continents.


You are to keep your ref. number and coupon number from the public
until you have been processed and your money remitted to your personal.In
order to avoid unnecessary delays with your claim,you are requested

Contact your Fiduciary Agent Mr.Toney Crawford, to assist you with the
processing of your winnings and subsequent payments by providing the
details below:

Mr.Toney Crawford
EMAIL: [protected]@yahoo.co.uk
TEL:+[protected]

NAME:
ADDRESS:..........................
EMAIL:............................
COUNTRY:..........................
PHONE NUMBER:.....................
AGE......................................
OCCUPATION:.......................

yours faithfully,
RICHARD KELVIN LLOYD.
Co -ordinator,UK FREE LOTTERY

Dear Friends,



I have few mails(about 30 emails from 12/nov 2007 to current period) from national lottery, but after that all were fraud. Please read below mails!



From: "YAHOO/MSN WINDOWS LOTTERY" <[protected]@msn.com> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:45:38 +1100
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR ID HAS MADE YOU A WINNER





Yahoo/Msn Lottery
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te United Kingdom.

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize
money of Five hundred thousand, Great Britain
Pound Sterlings(£500,000) for the month of
November 2007 Lottery promotion which is
organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC &
WINDOWS LIVE.YAHOO&MSN MICROSOFT
WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of
the people that are active online, among the
millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail
we only select five people every Month as our
winners through electronic balloting System
without the winner applying,we congratulate you
for being one of the people selected.

The following particulars are attached to your
lottery payment order:

(Batch number).....................YM 09102XN
(Reff number).......................YM35447XN
(Winning number)...................YM09788

Please contact the underlisted Claims Officer
Mr Billy Chambers.

Email:[protected]@yahoo.com


Full Names........
Address.............
Telephone Number.......
Sex.......................
State..............
Country................
Age...................
Occupation.................

CONGRATULATIONS!!Once again on behalf of all
our staff,
Yours faithfully,

Mrs Monica Adams.
Online Cordinator.

sir ,
i received the mail form robert.[protected]@yahoo.com, [protected]@indiatimes.com, is mention below. but wheneven i'm replay to them the mail is not delivery to them. kindly help me.


Yahoo/Msn Lottery
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te
United Kingdom.


This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for the month of December 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.

YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.



You are to contact the events manager on or before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.
Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 10 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number.......................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788


These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to contact the events manager, send your winning identification numbers to him,to enable him verify your claims.How ever you will have to fill and submit this form to the events manager for verification & direction on how you can claim your winning fund.

1. Full name..............
2. Contact Address........
3. Age....................
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Sex....................
7. Next Of Kin............
8. Zip Code...............
9. Occupation.............
10. Company................
11.State:.................
12.Country................
13.Nationality............
14. Your Reference and Batch number are at the top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Mr.Robert George
Email:robert.[protected]@yahoo.com

Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mr.Brain Hunt

(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).



The sender jerrybroda of this email has accessed your resume on timesjobs.com. Please note that there is no charge for registering on Timesjobs.com. Products for which charges are payable are clearly indicated on the site. It is the sole responsibility of the candidate to verify the content of the mails sent by the employers/recruiters. Further, you are advised to make appropriate/thorough enquiries before acting upon any unsolicited mail that you may receive from any individual/firm/company, asking for advance payment for any service that they may claim to be offering. Timesjobs.com does not vouch/guarantee for any such offers made by the above said parties.

The sender of this email is registered with timesjobs.com as STAMAT DESIGNS([protected]@yahoo.co.uk ,89A FLORAL DRIVE) using timesjobs.com services. The responsibility of checking the authenticity of offers/correspondence lies with you.

If you consider the content of this email inappropriate or spam, you may report abuse by forwarding this email to: [protected]@timesgroup.com

Please note that timesjobs.com does NOT endorse any requests for money payments, or sharing of bank account details.



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This Website/ E-mail are vulnerable to data corruption, interception, tampering, viruses as well as delivery errors and we do not accept liability for any consequence that may arise therefrom

Dear sir
I have also received E-mail like this.
It is true or false
if is true call me over this no[protected]
or send confamation E-amil over this E-mail address: [protected]@yahoo.com

dear sir
I have also received e-mail like this.
It is true or false?
for confimatition call on this no.[protected].
otherwise you will send the e-mail to me over my e-mail address:[protected]@yahoo.com

dear sir,
i have received mail from yahoo/msn for winning a lottry of 750000.00 pound
pls confirm is it true or false. so pls stop useing the banner or name of yahoo/msn
thanks

hi friends,

i also received this type of meg i can't believe it how it is possible . if anybody got money from it psl let me give any information with this email id [protected]@hotmail.com or u can call me this no.[protected]. urgent

pls help me friends,

Truly yours,

s.s.shivashankar

Hi there, this is DEFINITELY a scam folks!
See email that I've received this morning:
*****
ATTENTION: PRIVATE MASSAGE:::‏
From: PROMOTIONS ([protected]@yahoo.com)
You may not know this sender.Mark as safe|Mark as unsafe
Sent: October 6, 2008 7:22:39 PM
Reply-to: [protected]@hotmail.co.uk
To:

FROM: THE DESK OF THE CLAIMS DIRECTOR, YAHOO MSN LIVE INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS / PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, REF: YAHOO6/[protected]/27BATCH: [protected]Registered Lottery No 220949(Thanks for contributing to our Financial Success) ATTENTION:WINNER, This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize ofЈ500, 000.00 Pounds. This email promotion was held on the 4th of october 2008 in London United Kingdom. Your e-mail address attached toticket number[protected] with serial number 7263-267, batchnumber [protected] drew the lucky numbers[protected] which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approvedfor a lump sum pay out of Ј500, 000.00 (i.e. five Hundred Thousand United Kingdom Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file REF: YAHOO6/[protected]/27. To file for your claims you are to contact our REMMITANCE DIRECTOR for further information. NAME: MR WEST NEWTON (REMMITANCE DIRECTOR)EMAIL: [protected]@rocketmail.com Tell: +[protected]Fax: +[protected] You are hereby advised to provide our claims department with thefollowing information: REF Number, Batch number, Winning Email Address.Thereafter you will directed by your remittance officer on how to claim your prize. YAHOO MSN LIVE PROMOTION is a free service that does not require you to register or be a Yahoo registered user before winning. You have received this message from Yahoo International PROMOTIONS prize dept because you have visited one of our sponsored sites and havevoluntarily given your email address to receive mails from their sponsors. Your email address was selected along side ten lucky winners around the world who have there email voluntarily given to receive mails from various site that we sponsor around the world. To View Some Of Our Past Lucky Winner Click: **http://img.timeinc.net/TFK/media/news/2006a/060222_lottery_hor.jpg**http://ima...⇄ Mrs.Sherrell Barber (Zonal Coordinator)YAHOO MSN PROMOTIONS
****
First of all...who in the world believes that they would 'magically' win a lottery without incurring some sort of expense, time invested or otherwise...??? HELLOOOOOO

Second...do you really believe that some stranger will appear in your email telling you that you're the lucky winner of such a large amount of money? Don't you think they might contact you via other methods...like ... say... the TELEPHONE? SNAIL MAIL?

Third...whoever heard of a major corporation using YAHOO, MSN or ROCKETMAIL as their preferred email server?

Come on...wake up people. Stop being so naive and stop letting these people take advantage of you.

Upon receiving such garbage in your email...the answer is pretty clear: HIT DELETE.

The less audience we provide for these predators, the better.

Char

I did too,

but I just googled the header to come at this website. :)



REF: MSW6/[protected]/27BATCH: [protected] This e-mail is to inform you that you have been selected in an Online email award programme held 09th October 2008 for a payout of Ј500, 000.00 GBP. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number[protected] drew the winning numbers[protected] and a bonus number of 38 which subsequently won in the 1st category.To file your claim, do contact your designated officer assigned to your file via email or on phone as given in the contact details underneath providing your Name and Reference Number (MSW6/[protected]/27) to commence the process of releasing your prize to you. NAME: ALLEN TRISTAN EMAIL: mr.alen.[protected]@live.co.uk Tel: +44 [protected] Yours truly, Mrs. Ellis Wilkinson

i did too
The message you received is not true and should be deleted.

As you have suspected, Microsoft is not engaged in holding a lottery contest of this nature. This hoax is known as an advance fee fraud where intended victims are tricked into paying certain fees to receive a promised sum of money.
For more information on steps, you can take to protect yourself, please visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/email/spam.mspx

hey guys wake up .don't waste your time to like this mail

yours
truley
fareen mohomad
sri lanka
[protected]@gmail.com

Sir,
I have receved this Missage is it correct or not, Please help me sir
Dear Winner...

This is to inform you that you have won a
prize money of seven hundred and
fifty thousand Great Britain Pound
Sterlings
(£750, 000.00) for the month of
FEBRUARY, 2009 Lottery promotion which is
organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC.

We congratulate you for being one of the
five person selected You are to
contact the events manager for claims These
are your identification
numbers: Batch
number...YM
09102XN Reff
number...YM35447XN
Winning
number...YM09788
How ever you will have to fill and submit
the informations below to the
events
1. Full name...
2. Contact Address...
3. Age...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Sex...
6.Occupation...
7..State:...
8.Country...
9. Your Reference and Batch number at the
top of this mail:

{CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER}
Name:David Mark
E-mail: [protected]@live.co.uk



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The Msn/Yahoo Lottery Incorporation
PO Box 1010, Liverpool
L70 1NL, United Kingdom.
====================================


Dear Lucky winner,

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of the 5 winners selected for the Annual Lottery Promotions.The Microsoft Windows Live felicitate with you and your family.This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows.

Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows.I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully pass the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all on line winners.

A winning cheque has been issued in your name by the Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation board and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winnings cheque.

Our affiliated delivery company(INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER SERVICE)department in which your winnings cheque of Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pound Sterlings{750, 000.00GBP}has been sent to for delivery to your residence.

Do contact the INTER.C.C.S company with the contact information below for further instructions on how to send the consignment to your location and the amount to be charged for the delivery.

Please you should also send a copy of your winning verification form containing your winning details down to the courier company for reference and verification purpose.

CONTACT INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER COMPANY

DESPATCH OFFICER: Mr.Robert williams

COMPANY EMAIL: [protected]@live.com

The Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows lottery has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this, this friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Microsoft lottery has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the cancelling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

This office will not be responsible for any outstanding fees. Services rendered by INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER SERVICE are to be paid by you and not the lottery board, for the fact that the lottery organisers didn't make any provision for any upcoming expenses, regarding delivery of parcel or any such.

Have it in mind that your won prize cannot be deducted from your winning amount, this is because the total amount has been insured to the real value .This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

Its is Expected that you add your IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS{PARCEL/NUM/1090}as the subject of any correspondence with the courier company to ensure they respond in a timely manner.

I will require a concise update on proceedings with the firm as soon as you are in contact with them.If you need any assistance whatsoever, please do not hesitate to let me know.Do have a nice day.


NOTE:YOU ARE GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DELIVERY CHARGES OF YOUR PRIZE{PARCEL}WHICH IS TO BE DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME ADDRESS GIVEN ON YOUR DETAILS TO THE YAHOO/MSN..

Best Regards,
Mr.David mark
(Events Manager)
Payment and Release Order Dept

Sir,
I have receved this Missage is it correct or not, Please help me sir
Dear Winner...

This is to inform you that you have won a
prize money of seven hundred and
fifty thousand Great Britain Pound
Sterlings
(£750, 000.00) for the month of
FEBRUARY, 2009 Lottery promotion which is
organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC.

We congratulate you for being one of the
five person selected You are to
contact the events manager for claims These
are your identification
numbers: Batch
number...YM
09102XN Reff
number...YM35447XN
Winning
number...YM09788
How ever you will have to fill and submit
the informations below to the
events
1. Full name...
2. Contact Address...
3. Age...
4. Telephone Number...
5. Sex...
6.Occupation...
7..State:...
8.Country...
9. Your Reference and Batch number at the
top of this mail:

{CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER}
Name:David Mark
E-mail: [protected]@live.co.uk



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The Msn/Yahoo Lottery Incorporation
PO Box 1010, Liverpool
L70 1NL, United Kingdom.
====================================


Dear Lucky winner,

We wish to congratulate you once again on this note, for being part of the 5 winners selected for the Annual Lottery Promotions.The Microsoft Windows Live felicitate with you and your family.This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows.

Hence we do believe with your winning prize, you will continue to be active and patronage to the Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows.I wish to formally announce to you that you have successfully pass the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report Test conducted for all on line winners.

A winning cheque has been issued in your name by the Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation board and also a certificate of prize claims will be sent along side your winnings cheque.

Our affiliated delivery company(INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER SERVICE)department in which your winnings cheque of Seven Hundred And Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pound Sterlings{750, 000.00GBP}has been sent to for delivery to your residence.

Do contact the INTER.C.C.S company with the contact information below for further instructions on how to send the consignment to your location and the amount to be charged for the delivery.

Please you should also send a copy of your winning verification form containing your winning details down to the courier company for reference and verification purpose.

CONTACT INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER COMPANY

DESPATCH OFFICER: Mr.Robert williams

COMPANY EMAIL: [protected]@live.com

The Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows lottery has discovered a huge number of double claims due to winners informing close friends relatives and third parties about their winning and also sharing their pin numbers. As a result of this, this friends try to claim the lottery on behalf of the real winners. The Microsoft lottery has reached a decision from headquarters that any double claim discovered by the Lottery Board will result to the cancelling of that particular winning, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real winner, as it is taken that the real winner was the informer to the double claimer about the lottery. So you are hereby strongly advised once more to keep your winnings strictly confidential until you claim your prize.

This office will not be responsible for any outstanding fees. Services rendered by INTERNATIONAL CARGO COURIER SERVICE are to be paid by you and not the lottery board, for the fact that the lottery organisers didn't make any provision for any upcoming expenses, regarding delivery of parcel or any such.

Have it in mind that your won prize cannot be deducted from your winning amount, this is because the total amount has been insured to the real value .This is to protect winners and to avoid misappropriation of funds.

Its is Expected that you add your IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS{PARCEL/NUM/1090}as the subject of any correspondence with the courier company to ensure they respond in a timely manner.

I will require a concise update on proceedings with the firm as soon as you are in contact with them.If you need any assistance whatsoever, please do not hesitate to let me know.Do have a nice day.


NOTE:YOU ARE GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DELIVERY CHARGES OF YOUR PRIZE{PARCEL}WHICH IS TO BE DELIVERED TO YOUR HOME ADDRESS GIVEN ON YOUR DETAILS TO THE YAHOO/MSN..

Best Regards,
Mr.David mark
(Events Manager)
Payment and Release Order Dept

Sir, i have received an e_mail that i have won a 750000GBP in a lottery name as Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows lottery Board Organization which was send by david banner(his e_mail address is "david banner" <[protected]@hotmail.com>)
kindly inform me in my id that weather is it true or fake

I have won R960.000.00 on the 14-04-09
and no reply from you'll, you'l suppose to e-mail me but no reply was realy waiting to claim my price...
pls see if you'll can make a plan for my money...

just i receited lottery winner message i dont know such type of advertising this is the first time to hear

i received message FROM yahoo lottery is it genuine or not please give reply to me

Yahoo/MSN Lottery Incorporation — for Lottery mail varification

i received a mail from yahoo where he says i am the winner of the lottery which is orgnasied by the company but i want to know is it a fake mail or genuen mail,


Attention winner

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of
Five Hundred Thousand,Great Britain Pound
Sterlings(500.000,00) for the month of September 2007 Lottery
promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC
WINDOWS LIVE YAHOO/MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the
email addresses of the people that are active online, among
the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only
select five people every Month as our winners through
electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we
congratulate you for being one of the people selected,
You are to contact the events manager These are your
identificationnumbers.
Batch number.....................YM 09102XM
Reff number.......................YM 35447XM
Winning number...................DTYFM0988

However you will have to fill and submit this form to the
events
1.Full name
2.Contact
3.Age
4.Telephone
5.Sex
6.Occupation
7.State
8.Country
9.Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail

(CONTACT DISPACH MANAGER)
Name:Mr Ken Peace
E-mail:[protected]@live.co.uk
Tell:[protected]

Don't even take time to read this kind of mails, they are from remote servers, they are truly fake emails