I’m going to try to make a habit of posting on scam spam (there’s so much of it perhaps we should just call it scpam for short), for the benefit of the gullible. People regularly find their way to my blog searching for information about scams and hoaxes. Here’s a recent addition to my inbox. This one is pretty obvious – it didn’t come from Yahoo! and the contact e-mail address isn’t at Yahoo! either. The English is also poor – clearly not a native speaker. The most obvious feature that gives away that this is a hoax, however, is this: NO ONE SIMPLY GIVES AWAY MONEY FOR NO REASON!!! The text of the message follows:
YAHOO BETA MAIL PROMOTION
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($500,000.00) for the YEAR 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onto.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, and others we only select FIVE (5) candidates annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people
selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM POLICY
NOTE: Any information that is been provided by winners must be correct as provision of wrong information by winners may lead to disqualification of a winner and you also have to keep your winning numbers/notification confidential as to avoid double claiming which can result to disqualification, be warned!
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number…………………YBM-EBS-390AF
Ref number……………………YBM-EBS-110AF
Winning number……………YBM-EBS-798AF
Please contact the agent below via email for further instructions on what next to do to claim your winning fund.
Claims agent name: Mr Andrian Raymond
Claims agent email : [email protected]
You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate process of your prize fund.
Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him immediately:
Personal Information
1. Full name………………
2. Country………………..
3. Contact Address………..
4. Telephone Number………
5. Marital Status…………..
6. Occupation………………
7. Age…………………….
8. Sex…………………….
Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
We hope you’re enjoying your Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!.
You select how to transfer the prize money to you:
Cheque Delivery To Your Address
Bank Account Transfer
Diplomatic Means
NOTE: NOBODY WILL TOUCH YOUR MONEY FOR ANY REASON AND AN AFFIDAVIT OF
CLAIM WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE BANK, BEFORE THE BANK CAN RELEASE YOUR
MONEY.
If you have questions or wish to claim your prize money kindly contact this email:[email protected] see the instructions at the body of this message.
From:Yahoo Beta Mail Promotion
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