"Yahoo! Sweepstake Annual Anniversary Prize Promotion" Lottery Scam
There is no "Yahoo! Sweepstake Annual Anniversary Prize Promotion." Therefore, if you have received the fraudulent email below or others like it, which claims that you are a winner in the "Yahoo! Sweepstake Annual Anniversary Prize Promotion," please do not follow the instructions in it. This is because the email is a lottery scam. There is no Yahoo/Microsoft Sweepstake Award or lottery, and the fake email message was sent by cyber-criminals/scammers, and not by Yahoo!. Yahoo 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! Sweepstake Annual Anniversary Prize Promotion" Lottery Scam
YAHOO! INC & WINDOW LIVE AWARD PROMOTION CENTER Promotions/ This is to inform you that you have won prize money of Eight Hundred and
Dollars, ($820,000.00) from our ongoing organized by YAHOO & WINDOWS LIVE Yahoo/Windows Live collects all email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Microsoft and few from other E to benefit from this promotion and you are one Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Cent
AWARD must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and will be diverted to Reserve Bank
These winners fall within Europe/Africa Location file requested to contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa prize:
Fiduciary Agent Name:
Address:
PLEASE CONTACT HIM THROUGH HIS EMAILS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER
E-mail: richardson2howard@yahoo.com
E-mail: richardson.howard@windowslive.com
Phone: 0027 731 318 017
You are advised to send the following winning fund to you immediately.
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. Sex:
Mrs. Leslie O'Connell
Lottery coordinator
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 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 email 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.
NOTICE: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU YOUR FIDUCIARY AGENT (MR RICHARDSON HOWARD) 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 our ongoing Sweepstake Annual Anniversary prize promotion, & WINDOWS LIVE AWARDS. collects all email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that 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
accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. YAHOO & WINDOWS LIVE PRIZE AWARD must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not claimed within and will be diverted to Reserve Bank.
Africa Location files and all winning numbers are encrypted; requested to contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa for more information on how to redeem your cash
Richardson Howard
Address: 2nd Floor SABC Universal Building Auckland Park, South Africa.
CONTACT HIM THROUGH HIS EMAILS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER:
richardson2howard@yahoo.com
richardson.howard@windowslive.com
following information’s to your fiduciary agent to facilitate the release of your
5. Fax Number:
Sex/Marital Status:
7. Occupation:
8. Date of birth:
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.
NOTICE: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT NOT BE ATTENDED TO. KINDLY CONTACT (MR RICHARDSON HOWARD) ABOVE DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER DIRECTIONS"
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