"Yahoo! 2018/2019 New Year Lottery Draws" Scams
There is no "Yahoo! 2018/2019 New Year Lottery Draws". Therefore, online users who have received the fraudulent e-mail below or others like it, which claims that they are winners in "Yahoo! 2018/2019 New Year Lottery Draws" are asked not to follow the instructions in it. This is because the email is a lottery scam. The fake email message is being sent by cyber-criminals or lottery 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 sending their personal information and 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.
A "Yahoo! 2018/2019 New Year Lottery Draws" Scam
From: Sir Jeremy Wang Han - sir.jeremy_wang@foxmail.com
Date: Tue, May 21, 2019 at 4:36 AM
Subject: Payment Procedures For Batch: 15/623/8091/AA
THE DESK OF THE CLAIMS DIRECTOR,
INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS & ClAIMS AWARD DEPARTMENT,
REF: YAHOO6/315116127/27
BATCH: 15/623/8091/AA.
Registered Lottery No 220949
Date: 21/05/2019
Dear Esteemed Winner,
Payment Procedures For Batch: 15/623/8091/AA
Thank you for contacting me regarding your claims, a claims file with Ref:YAHOO6/315116127/27 has been opened to process the remittance of your winnings to you, this is to inform and further confirm that your e-mail address has won USD$5,005,000.00 in the recent Yahoo! Lottery Promotions, I am Mr Jeremy Wang Han, Claims & Remittance Director for the Yahoo! Asian Regional office, i have been instructed to give you guidelines on how to successfully claim your winnings.
Firstly i will like to use this medium to officially congratulate you for emerging a lucky winner in the current Yahoo! email lottery promotions and also wish you a happy new year. This is to also confirm
that you have been awarded and approved a pay-out of $5,005,000.00. A valid cashiers cheque of $5,005,000.00 has been issued to your name and forwarded to our assigned courier/shipping company ( Central Cargo Express Couriers and Logistics (M) Sdn Bhd) for immediate delivery to you at your home or office address in your Country.
ABOUT THE LOTTERY PROGRAM
The Yahoo! 2018/2019 New Year lottery draws was organized by a joint effort of Yahoo! Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, China and other Asian countries in view of the Financial benefits YAHOO! have received from its numerous customers either through adverts, hosting and personal emails in the 2019 financial year. It is also important that I inform you that there was no sales of tickets as the draws was conducted strictly by assigning various Individual email addresses to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy, this is a free-stakes and as such no winner or participant was required to buy a ticket, e-mails were selected randomly and entered automatically.
Your e-mail address attached to ticket number 883734657492-5319 with Winning No.
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