19 May 2010

Yahoo!! International Lottery Organization!!! Scam Email.

The content of this scam email is shown below:
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From: Mrs. Akira Itsuki  <lotteryyoffice@yahoo.com.hk>
To: 

YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY RESULTS 2010
CONGRATULATIONS!!!


Yahoo!! International Lottery Organization
Bangkok Branch Office
Address: 109\219 Moon 8, Bang-Khun-Tien Road,
Bangkok 19160 Thailand.

Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the New Year Held on 11th the April 2010.

All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ( $1, 000. 000.00USD)


This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Bangkok representative office in Bangkok Thailand, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ( $1, 000.000.00USD) will be released to you from this regional branch office in Bangkok Thailand.

Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company Bangkok Thailand and insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed, and your winning Cheque have being sent to you or remitted to your account, as this is part of our security protocol, to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking of advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers.
Ticket number.....................085-12876077-09
Serial number.......................51390-0
Lucky number...................03-05-12-14-28-38
Ref number...................N.EGS/3662367114/13

To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Yahoo Lottery Co-ordinator as follows,

Email: yofficelottery@yahoo.com.hk
Name: Joseph Lee
Tel: +(66) 805530803

You are to send the completed verification form below to the co-ordinator whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!


1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADRESS.
4. DATE OF BIRTH
5. OCCUPATION
6. TELEPHONE NUMBER
7. SEX
8. FAX NUMBER
9. MARITAL STATUS
10. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 31th of May 2010.Any claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTYS DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY). Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery in your name.

Note also that this 10% will be remitted after you have received your winnings prize, because the money is insured in your name already.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with us, Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our coordinator as soon as possible. Yahoo lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! Registered user.

An original copy of your lucky winning ticket and your deposit certificate will be sent to you by Administrative Remittance Operation Manager of Siam City Bank Bangkok Thailand.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program.


We wish you continued good fortunes.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Donaldson Chou
Vice President
Yahoo! Lotto Org.

Mrs. Akira Itsuki
Online Coordinator .
2010The Yahoo-Thailland Internet Promotions.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines.
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Without wasting your time, as you can see, the recipient email address (which is highlighted by red) is blank. In other words, this was sent to many people so the sender "hidden" the recipient email address.

Besides, the email is totally informal.

Therefore, without further wasting your time to read such scam email, you can mark it as a "spam" email first if this email is in your "inbox". After that, you can delete it by empty your "Trash". Feel free to give me a comment about this topic. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.

Written by: Xaivier Chia

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