"Yahoo, AOL and Gmail Award Promotion" Lottery Scam
There is no Yahoo, AOL or Gmail lottery. Therefore, online users who have received email messages claiming that they are winners in the "Yahoo, AOL & Gmail Award Promotion" should delete them and should never follow the instructions them. Every month, lottery scammers randomly send out thousands of fake email messages claiming the recipients are winners in some bogus lottery. The bogus email messages will request personal information, and will subsequently ask the recipients to send money in order to receive their so-called prizes or winnings. But, once the lottery scammers receive their victims' money, they will disappear leaving their victims disappointed and hundreds or thousands of dollars broke. This is why online users should never send their personal information to anyone in an email message or send money to someone who contacted them via email message claiming they have won some lottery or promotion.
A Sample of the "Yahoo, AOL and Gmail Award Promotion" Lottery Scamming Email
YAHOO!, AOL & GMAIL AWARD PROMOTION CENTER
Promotions/ Prize Award Department South Africa.
This is to inform you that you have won prize money of Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand United State Dollars, ($820,000.00) on our ongoing Monthly 2017 prize promotion, which was organized by YAHOO, AOL & GMAIL AWARDS.
Yahoo, Aol & Gmail collects all email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Aol & Gmail and few from other E-mail Providers. Five people are selected this month to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the lucky Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. YAHOO, AOL & GMAIL PRIZE AWARD must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
Stated below are your identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2008234522
WINNING NUMBER: 14, 21, 30, 34, 47, 71
PIN: 1206
These numbers fall within the Africa Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him:
Agent Name: Mr Dick Turkel
Address: 2nd Floor SABC Universal Building Auckland Park, South Africa.
PLEASE CONTACT HIM THROUGH THIS EMAIL, ADDRESSES:
E-mail: mturke857@gmail.com
E-mail: mturke857@yahoo.com
Phone: +27 63 881 4045
You are advised to send the following information’s to your agent to facilitate the release of your winning fund to you.
1. Full Names:
2. Country:
3. Contact Address:
4.Telephone Number:
5. Fax Number:
6. Sex/Marital Status:
7.Occupation:
8. Date of birth:
9.Alternate email if any:
Mrs. Laurie Clark
Lottery coordinator
Yahoo! Aol & Gmail
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