The"Yahoo MSN Award" Lottery Scam
There is no "Yahoo MSN Award" lottery. Therefore, if you have received the fraudulent email below or others like it, which claims that you are a winner in such a lottery, please do not follow the instructions in it. This is because the email is a lottery scam. There is no Yahoo MSN 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 MSN Award" Lottery Scam
From: YAHOO MSN AWARD - lindanaidoo1964@outlook.com
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 20:46
Subject: Award Email
YAHOO! & OUTLOOK WINDOW LIVE 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 End Of Year 2018 prize promotion, which was organized by YAHOO & OUTLOOK WINDOWS LIVE AND MICROSOFT AWARDS.
Yahoo/Msn collects all 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. 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 & OUTLOOK WINDOWS LIVE 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:3004434522
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. Christopher Ward
Address: 1st Floor Medical Mews,Sandton City,South Africa.
PLEASE CONTACT HIM THROUGH THIS EMAIL, ADDRESSES:
E-mail: Christopherward3611@outlook.com
E-mail: Christopherward1213@yahoo.co.za
Phone: +27 837573586
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. Marital Status
7. Occupation
8. Date of birth
9. Sex
Mrs. Linda Naidoo
Lottery coordinator
Yahoo! & Outlook Board
WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!!
Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim.
You may also receive similar e-mails from people portraying to be other Organizations or Yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail like the notification letter that was sent to you, kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.
Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned.
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