I have receive from yahoo agent mr. randy saw your winning for the year of yahoo/msn email contst is it true?

YAHOO/MSN AWARDS


This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Eighty Five Thousand Great Britain Pounds (GBP85,000) for the month of February, 2008 Prize Promotion which is Organized by YAHOO AND MSN .





YAHOO! / MSN collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.





PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM





Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Yahoo Award must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.


Stated below are your identification numbers:





BATCH NUMBER: YM 09102XN


REFERENCE NUMBER: YM35447XN


PIN: YM09788





These numbers fall within the England Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Liverpool and send your winning identification numbers to him;


Agent Name:

I have receive from yahoo agent mr. randy saw your winning for the year of yahoo/msn email contst is it true?
This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet and how to report them :


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...


http://www.hotscams.com/articles/759/1/L...


Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.
Reply:Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information


http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri...


http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt...


http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...


.Also If you go to the following site you will get some info on ID theft 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
Reply:This is a scam. If you google the email address, you will find that out.
Reply:This is a Phishing mail, they are only interested in your personal and banking data, and if you give them the data they will abuse your account and spend every thing that you have deposited.





Spam


Do the folowing:


1. Note the email address of the spammer.


2. Copy it on notepad.


3. In yahoomail, click on options on the top right corner.


4. Click on Block addresses once the options page opens.


5. Paste the email address of the spammer in the box provided.


6. Click on block address.





And if you dont want the messages not to go in to your bulk folder do the folowing.


1. In yahoomail, click on options on the top right corner.


2. Click on Spam Protection once the options page opens.


3. On the Spam Filter Tab mark Immediately delete these messages upon receipt.





Or you can block the top level domain:


1. *@*.%26lt;some domain ".com, .net etc"%26gt;


2. *@*.%26lt;site name%26gt;.com


3. Exemple block top level domain: *@*.com


4. Exemple block some domain: *@yahoo.com





Report such a mail to:


spoof@yahoo.com


phishing@cc.yahoo-inc.com


Federal Trade Commission spam@uce.gov


Treasury Department 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov
Reply:This is the same email that I got. It is a scam. You will never get anything, They will want your Id, Bank Number and all your information plus they will want you to send money for some paper work, or lawyer fees. Delete the message and do not respond to it. These are crooks looking to take your money and personal information.
Reply:no this is a scam,there is no such thing as a yahoo lottery or anyway to make money, do not reply or give any personal information





this is what yahoo to say about scams such as yahoo lottery and awards: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...





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these are some methods,techniques and websites to minimize the amount of spam messages you receive:





how to minimize the spam emails you receive:


-block the sender/s email address/es


-send the emails to your spam/bulk folder


-ignore them- do not reply


-DO NOT OPEN the e-mails if you know they are spam by the title


if you open them then the sender knows you have an active


email address and will continue to send them to you through various other email addresses, and they will sell your address on so other spammers will send you spam emails





also go to this webpage to learn how to minimize the spam you receive even further: http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/email_...





visit these websites to tackle spam problems: http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/inde...


http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/email_...


http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...


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go to this website to look at the latest fraudulent and spam emails being sent to people, it also tells you about internet lottery scams etc: http://www.data-wales.co.uk/nigerian.htm





remember if something sounds to good to be true or you get unsolicited emails of this nature....99.999% of the time they are





stay safe online,know how to spot these tricks of the fraudsters, Don't be the next victim to internet fraud





all the best


-Jake