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YAHOO INTERNET AWARDS | Fake Lottery Scam
This is just one type of the thousands
of scam e-mail variants
sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even
remotely similar to the scam published here or if you have
arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail
that you received, YOU
HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!
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This is an internet
scam! DON'T
send these scammers money for any reason.
[ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]
From: Congratulation Congratulation <congratulation_congratulation88@msn.com>
Subject: Congratulation" Congratulation"Congratulation" Congratulation
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:09:28 +0000 (11:09 EDT)
YAHOO INTERNET AWARDS 2009
Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road, Longsight,
London M60 2DB
United Kingdom.
Dear Email Owner,
CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
This
is to inform you that you have won a prize money of GBP800, 000, 00
British Pounds (Eight Hundred Thousand British Pounds) Only for the
email users this 2009 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO
INTERNET AWARDS 2009.
Yahoo! Collects all the email addresses
of the people that are active online this 2009, among the millions that
subscribed to Yahoo and few from other e-mail providers. 12 people are
selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the
Selected Winners this month of July 2009.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE / CLAIMS
Winners
shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers. Yahoo Prize
Award must be claimed not less than 3Weeks from the date of Draw
Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be
forfeited and returned to its source as unclaimed Prize/Fund.
STATED BELOW ARE YOUR IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS:
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/07/APA-53659
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2009234523
FILE NUMBER: YAHOO/UK76-441/09
You
are Advised to contact your Claim Agent with the below contact details
and forward your winning and personal identification numbers to him:
CLAIM AGENT NAME: MR. WILLIAM BOYD
E-MAIL: wboyd200920009@live.com
Tel N0: +44 702 407 1503
You
are advised to send the below following information’s to your claim
agent to enable him facilitate the release of your fund to you by our
Paying Bank.
1. Your Full name:
2. You’re Country:
3. Contact Address:
4. Telephone Number:
5. Fax Number:
6. Marital Status:
7. Occupation:
8. Sex:
9. Age:
Congratulations!!! Once again.
Yours in service,
Mrs. Angela C. Elvis.
(Awards Notification Officer)
[ END SCAM E-MAIL ]
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It's important to note that
any real people and / or legitimate
organizations whose actual names or other details appear in
these scam e-mails have absolutely no
connection
with this scam!
Scammers never use their real
names.
They frequently take on the identity of real people to help make themselves and their scam appear legitimate.
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This is just a small sampling of the
many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at
419BAITER
headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!
There are many different types of 419 scam (examples)
but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary /
commision,
low-interest loan, lottery prize,
bargain gold dust / diamonds,
work visa, etc.) in return
for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no
fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get
you to
willingly send them money.
To see what this site is really all about, visit The Games
section.
NOTE TO
DUMBASS SPAMMERS:
My scam e-mail filtering system is pretty good
but it isn't perfect.
Occasionally a regular spam e-mail will get mistakenly published here
as
a
419 scam. This is inadvertent. If you are a spammer and you don't wish
to have your crap mistakenly published on this website as a
419
advance fee
scam, the solution is
simple. Don't mail your crap to harvested e-mail
addresses.
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