i recieved a mail regarding yahoo online promotional scheme could you please tell me whats that?
YAHOO ONLINE PROMOTION.
GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!!
YAHOO ONLINE INTERNATIONAL PROMO
IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF;
(Registration Z720633X).
Dear Winner,
NOTICE OF CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING
This email confirms that you have been notified by the YAHOO ONLINE
INTERNATIONAL PROMO,in the United Kingdom of your email promo winning
for 2007 YAHOO LOTTERY PROMOTION held on 17th August ,2007.
We wish to congratulate you on the selection of your email coupon
number which
was selected among the 45 lucky consolation prize winners.You were
entered
unaware as an independent email participant with: Ticket Number: 657-
954-2509
with Your email ID identified with Coupon No.PBL2348974321. Your
selection was done by Electronic Random Selection System (ERSS) with
entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the
Lotto-Wheel E-game. Your email ID included among the 50,000 different
email addresses that was submitted by our pa
2 Responses
JAMES M
08 Mar 2010
maowbro
08 Mar 2010
100% SCAM. Yahoo doesn’t have lotteries or cash giveaways. If they did, you can be sure there would be a LOT of advertising for it all over their web sites. Just delete that email, and any others like it that you are likely to get. DON’T click any links in it, and certainly DON’T reply to it.
You don’t get anything for nothing, it’s a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information.
http://www.scambusters.org
http://www.hoaxbusters.ciac.org
http://www.scambusters-419.co.uk
http://www.truthorfiction.com
.Also If you go to the following link you will get some info on ID theft http://www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.