The "Yahoo Microsoft-Outlook Award 2019" Lottery Scams
If you have received fake emails like the one below, which claim that you are a winner in the "Yahoo Microsoft-Outlook Award 2019," please do not follow the instructions in them. This is because the emails are lottery scams. There is no "Yahoo Microsoft-Outlook Award 2019" and the fake emails are being sent by cyber-criminals or online 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 Microsoft-Outlook Award 2019" Lottery Scam
From: James Duncan - drjduncan1967@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019, 2:14 am
Subject: Yahoo/Microsoft-Outlook Reward
PRIZE PROMOTION
Yahoo/Microsoft-Outlook Award 2019
AUTHORISED BY: Oath A Verizon Company.
Yahoo!!Microsoft-Outlook Award 2019
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF OUR TOP TWO LUCKY WINNERS.
CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE INDEED LUCKY!
Yahoo / AOL An Oath Brand
Yahoo! Microsoft-Outlook UK Ltd Level 5,125 Shaftesbury Ave London WC2H8AD United Kingdom.
All the executive members of Yahoo Oath Verizon Company/Microsoft-Outlook Management Team wishes to inform you that you have won a prize money of Seven Hundred, Twenty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (£720,000,00.) for 2019 Prize promotion which was organized by YAHOO Oath/ Microsoft-Outlook MANAGEMENT TEAM today Thursday, 25th April 2019 to celebrate26 years anniversary since we become the best free e-mail provider worldwide/our NEW Oath Brand A Verizon Company in 2018.
YAHOO Oath Brand/ Microsoft-Outlook INC collected all the email addresses of people that are active online, among over 1 billion-plus global users that subscribed to Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Two e-mail addresses were selected on 25th APRIL 2019 to benefit from this prize promotion and your e-mail address has been selected today 25TH APRIL 2019 via Computer Random Selection System as one of the top TWO lucky Winners for 2019 prize promotion.
All winners shall be paid through BANK TRANSFER in 2019. Yahoo/Microsoft-Outlook Prize Award must be claimed not later than 60 days from today 25th April 2019. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
Stated below are your identification numbers:
File NO:UKLYAP-265-UKNY-2019
REFERENCE NO:THDG-UK7200-1/20-19/0991
PIN:.....
You are requested to contact our fiduciary agent inManchester UK, Dr Shahdat Hossain through his below contact details and submit your File & Reference numbers to him; Note your Pin NO will be sent to you by Dr Shahdat Hossain once you open contact with him for some security reasons.
Agent Name: Dr Shahdat Hossain
E-mail: drshahdat1971@yahoo.com
E-mail: drshahdat1971@dr.com
Office Tel:+448451322439
You are advised to send the below information to your Claims Agent Dr Shahdat Hossain through his above e-mail to facilitate the release of your award-winning prize to you immediately.
1. Nationality/ Country of Residence
2. Contact Address
3. Telephone Number
4. Age
Congratulations!!!
Yours in service,
David Filo & Jerry Yang
Co-founders and Chief Yahoo.
WARNING!!! DO NOT TREAT AS SPAM!!!!
Keep your winning information confidential within you until your award prize are successfully transferred or handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise due to double claiming.
You may also receive similar e-mails from people portraying to be Yahoo/Microsoft-Outlook, this is solely to collect your personal information and lay fake claims over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the award notification letter that was sent to you today, kindly delete it from your mailbox and give no further correspondence to such person or body.
Yahoo/Microsoft-Outlook shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned and any winning notification that was not from David Filo & Jerry Yang (Co-founders and Chief Yahoo)and signed by Yahoo/Microsoft-Outlook mail Board of Directors will be cancelled.
Signed By: Yahoo/Microsoft-Outlook Board of Directors:
Nigel Clarkson Managing Director of Yahoo UK, Ben Schaechter Product Manager / Mobile,Jerry Yang(Co-founder and Chief Yahoo), Lisa Utzschneider Chief Revenue Officer , Jean-Christophe Gombeaud Senior Director, EMEA B2B Marketing Director, Vishwas Raman Director of Engineering.
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