YAHOO/MICROSOFTWINDOWS ONLINE PROMOTION is this fake?
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Subject: You Have Won The Yahoo/Msn & Microsoft Windows Lottery Of £500,000
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:32:47 IST
Yahoo/Msn Lottery
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te
United Kingdom.
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five hundred thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for the ANNUAL 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every year as our winners through
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JAMES M
16 Feb 2010
Q&A ANSWER M
16 Feb 2010
BLOCK SENDERS LIST AND REPORT SPAM AND SCAMS
just deleting emails does nothing
they can still send you mail
the below information is for yahoo mail
but the steps may be close for other providers
never open a link in a email if you dont know who it is from
BLOCKING A SENDER INFO
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-119233.html
THE STEPS TO DO IT
open email program
top right of page choose options
then choose block senders
type in address
OR JUST CLICK THE SPAM BUTTON IT WILL DO IT FOR YOU
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/abuse/abuse-13.html
BULK EMAIL SETTING
go to yahoo mail
then Options
then Spam Protection
and set the setting to delete immediately upon arrival
EVERY TIME YOU POST YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ON THE WEB
YOU RISK SPAM
if you sign up for free stuff etc
create another email address
post that email address when you sign up for things
protect your main account
REPORT SPAM REPORT ABUSE
USE THESE EMAIL ADDRESS’S
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/spam_abuse.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=report%20spam%20to%20yahoo&sourceid=groowe&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com
abuse@yahoo.com
cc-advoc@yahoo-inc.com
phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com.
http://security.yahoo.com/article.html?aid=2006102506
CONTACT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IF EMAIL IS FROM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS MEMBERS
Answers-abuse@cc.yahoo-inc.com
y_answers_team@yahoo.com
cc-advoc@yahoo-inc.com
MORE INFORMATION
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/abuse/
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-16.html
echinopsis
16 Feb 2010
This is a scam! Somebody is trying to verify your e-mail address so it can be sold to spammers, or they are trying to get your bank account info so you can be ripped off later! Report such a mail to:
phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com!
Federal Trade Commission spam@uce.gov
Treasury Department 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
To read more about this go to the links below.
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/4337
http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/internetschemes.htm
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.