"Yahoo/Windows Live Internet Award 2017" Lottery Scams
If you have received the fraudulent email below or others like it, which claims that you are a winner in the "Yahoo/Windows Live Internet Award 2017," please do not follow the instructions in it. This is because the email is a lottery scam. There is no Yahoo/Windows Live Internet Award lottery and the fake email message was sent by cyber-criminals/scammers, and not by Yahoo! or Microsoft. Yahoo or Microsoft will never ask their users to send their personal information via an email message. And, sending your personal information to those cyber-criminals will only help them rip you off. Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to trick their potential victims into stealing their personal information and/or sending money.
For online users who have already been tricked by the fraudulent e-mail, please be careful next time. This is because the cyber-criminals/scammers will contact those online users, using the information they have submitted, in an attempt to scam them.
The "Yahoo/Windows Live Internet Award 2017" Lottery Scam
From: Aw D - awd438@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 3:34 AM
Subject: Reward Notification Letter
Division of Yahoo/Windows Live Internet Award 2017
View one of our last year lucky winners. |
CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF OUR TOP FOUR LUCKYWINNERS.CONGRATULATIONS!Yahoo / WindowsLive125 ShaftesburyAvenue, WC2H 8AD, London- United Kingdom. All the executive members of Yahoo/WindowsLive Management Team wishes to inform you that you have wona prize money of Seven Hundred, Twenty Thousand GreatBritain Pounds (£720,000,00.) for 2017 Prize promotionwhich was organized by YAHOO MANAGEMENT TEAM & WINDOWS LIVE today Monday,14th August 2017 tocelebrate our 21 years anniversary since we become the best freee-mail provider worldwide. YAHOO/ Windows Livecollected all the email addresses of people that are active online,among over 1 billion-plus global users that subscribed to Yahoo, Googlemail, Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Four e-mailaddresses were selected annually to benefit from this prize promotion and youre-mail address has been selected today MONDAY 14TH AUGUST2017 via Computer Random Selection System as one of the top fourlucky Winners for 2017 prize promotion. All winners shall be paid inaccordance with his/her Settlement center. Yahoo/ Windows Live Prize Award mustbe claimed not later than 60 days from today 14TH August 2017. Any prizenot claimed within this period will be forfeited. Stated below are youridentification numbers: File NO: Q/KMA/M/PO/UKRWV-96311
REFERENCE NO: IVEXH-XC2017-0124
PIN: ...................
These identification numbers fall within UK Location file, you are requested tocontact our fiduciary agent in Manchester UK, Dr AlecLewis through his below contact details and submit your File &Reference numbers to him; Note your Pin NO will be sent to you by Dr Alec DLewis once you open contact with him for some security reasons.
Agent Name: Dr Alec Lewis
E-mail: dralecd67@outlook.com
E-mail: dralecd67@yahoo.com
Office Tel: +44 702 409 4674
You are advised to send the below information to your Claims Agent Dr Alec Lewis through his e-mail to facilitatethe release of your award-winning prize to you immediately.
1. Your File & Reference No
2. Nationality/ Country of Residence
3. Contact Address
4. Telephone Number5. Occupation6. Age Congratulations!!!
Yours in service, David Filo & Jerry YangCo-founders and Chief Yahoo.
WARNING!!!
Keep your winning information confidential until your award prize aresuccessfully transferred or handed over to you to avoid disqualificationthat may arise due to double claiming.
You may also receive similar e-mails from people portraying tobe Yahoo Inc or Windows Live Msn. This is solely tocollect your personal information and lay fake claims over your winning. Inevent that you receive any e-mail similar to the award notification letter thatwas sent to you today, kindly delete it from your mailbox and give no furthercorrespondence to such person or body. Yahoo/ Windows shall not be heldresponsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned and anywinning notification that was not from David Filo & Jerry Yang (Co-foundersand Chief Yahoo)and sign by Yahoo and Google mail Board of Directors will becancelled. Signed By: Yahooand Windows Live Board of Directors:Kathy Savitt (ChiefMarketing Officer), Marissa Mayer (Chief Executive Officer, President &Director), Jerry Yang(Co-founder and Chief Yahoo), Ken Goldman (Chief FinancialOfficer) and Other members.
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