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Diandra23
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posted March 20, 2009 03:35 PM           Edit/Delete Message
i received this on my yahhoo mail today.

Im not very familiar with these things,have you ever heard of this?
Or received any prize?

this is what i have received:

"

Messenger Yahoo!
Lottery Results you won $800.000! Yahoo! Mail Congratulates
you!

Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is
randomly selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts
who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have
won a prize money of (Eight Hundred Thousand Us Dollars ($800,000) for the
month of march, 2009. Lottery winner promotion
which is organized by yahoo messenger.com every
month.

YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo
messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo
messenger we only select five people every month as our winners through
electronic balloting System without the winner
applying, we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected.
All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from
Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from
Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and
Oceania as part of our international promotions
program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some
multinational companies as part of their social
responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have
operational base.
Furthermore your details (e-mail address) falls within our British
representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in
your play coupon and your prize of US $800,000 will be released to you from
this regional branch office in UK. 2
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US $1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers..........
Batch number.......................number #
Lotto number........................number#
Winning number...................number #

( i edited the numbers..)

To begin your claims, kindly contact the Accounting Officer at this email
address (mrjonhkan03@yahoo.com) You are required to
forward him with the following details:

1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADDRESS
4. SEX
5. DATE OF BIRTH
6. AGE
7. OCCUPATION
8. TELEPHONE NUMBER
9. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)
10. MARITAL STATUS
11. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12 THE MONTH YOU WON.....................................................

As soon as you contact the Officer, he will advise you on what to do in
order to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!
For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is
processed and your prize released to you.
This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-
participant or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,
Blake Jorgensen
Chief Financial Officer
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Lottery Results
Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to register
or be a Yahoo!
registered user before winning.

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evander
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posted March 20, 2009 03:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for evander     Edit/Delete Message
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070221143241AAsy6x7

seems like it's a scam! Bummer

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Peri
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From: Ukraine
Registered: Apr 2009

posted March 20, 2009 03:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
it's a scam Dee, ignore it

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kaira
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posted March 20, 2009 03:44 PM           Edit/Delete Message
all of these are always scams, especially now since we're in a recession.

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Diandra23
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posted March 20, 2009 03:44 PM           Edit/Delete Message
Ohhh dawm

I wished it were true hihihih

thank You!!

I sort of tend to believe in these things,but now i know better

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gemlike
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posted March 20, 2009 03:46 PM           Edit/Delete Message
Total scam. These have been going around for a while. You give them all your info, then they say they need a check or your bank account info or something and they gouge you.
There was an MSNBC news expose about it some time ago

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Diandra23
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posted March 20, 2009 03:50 PM           Edit/Delete Message
i see..seems that these are the "famigerous" Nigerian scams.

makes sense...if i didnt entered in any lottery...then i couldnt have won anything either hihihi

Well i DID bought a ticket today on Euromillions letīs see if those 29 millions come over here!

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evander
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posted March 20, 2009 03:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for evander     Edit/Delete Message
good luck!


recently this girl in a class that my friend teaches in won around million euros. she was flunking at a very poor school at the time. you never know where luck strikes

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Diandra23
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posted March 20, 2009 04:01 PM           Edit/Delete Message
Really??

She deserves the best.Now she can study whatever she wants!

Well..i also went to that site of real-wishes.com - seemed to be like an interesting wishfull-thinking place.

You bet i have made quite a few wishes there also.!

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Astra
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posted March 20, 2009 04:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Astra     Edit/Delete Message
That's a scam for sure.

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amowls
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Posts: 4
From: Falls Church, VA, USA
Registered: Apr 2009

posted March 20, 2009 06:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for amowls     Edit/Delete Message
Definite scam. Anything that asks you to email them your information is a scam.

I've been getting SO many of these lately.

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Lara
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From: aspideronmars
Registered: Apr 2009

posted March 20, 2009 06:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lara     Edit/Delete Message
A SCAM!!!!!!!

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