Yahoo Lottery?

[veryboredme]

Just got a new type of the lottery spam/scam email:

From: ticket number: 56475600545 188 Serial number 5388/02 <[email protected]>
date: Jan 9, 2007 6:32 AM
subject: Congratulations!! You won $250.000.00!!
mailed-by: gmail.com

You won $250.000.00! Yahoo! Msn! Mail Congratulates You!

Yahoo! Lottery Results
THE YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL. INC

YAHOO LOTTERY INTL INC
Barley House Harold Road
Sutton, Greater London Sm1 4te
United Kingdom.


Attention: Lottery Winner,

YAHOO LOTTERY WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw of the Yahoo Lottery Intl Inc programs held on the 4th of January 2007 in London. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 188 with Serial number 5388/02 drew the lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357, which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category. You are therefore, been approved to claim a total sum of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($250,000) for the 4th of January 2007 lottery win promotion which is organized by MSN & YAHOO LOTTORY INTL INC .Every month.

YAHOO, collects all the E MAIL ID of the people that subscribes to yahoomail, msn, hotmail, googlemail,aol, altavista, and others online, among the billions that subscribe to us only five people will be merge for winnings we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for having been one of the lucky people that won for this month..

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

you are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of Claim, Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.

Yahoo Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and retrieved
These are your identification numbers....


Yahoo! Lottery Results:
Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number.......................Lwh35447
Winning number...................Lwh09788

These numbers are your winning identification numbers, that you will
send to your claims agent,send identification and details of claim to.

Mr. Patrick . C. Gill
Email: [email protected]
Tel:+44 70111 47935 44702 409 7893
Fax:+44870 479 3935 +44870 479 3999

You are therefore advise to quote the following information to
the Clams Agent to facilitate them to process the transfer of your fund without delay.


Serial number 5388/02
Draw lucky numbers: 31-6-2613357
Ticket number: 56475600545 188
Batch number.....................Lwh 09102
Lotto number.......................Lwh35447
Winning number...................Lwh09788

Your winning fall in Africa-Asia! This promotion takes place every Month .Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Africa-Asia as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($250,000) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Africa-Asia.Our agent zoned for Africa paying bank will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.


NOTE: YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING CONFIDENTIAL TILL CLAIM IS MADE TO AVOID WRONG CLAIMING.ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENCIAL DISQULIFIES YOU FROM GETTING YOUR PRIZE.
Congratulations once more!! Yours Sincerely,
Thank you for being a Yahoo/Msn Member.


Mrs.Darryn Clarke
Online coordinator Yahoo
International Lottery Program. .
ATTN: ONCE AGAIN WE THE ENTIRE STAFF OF THE YAHOO INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY WE ARE CONGRATULATING YOU FOR YOUR WINNINGS, SO IN ORDER FOR US TO PROCESS YOUR WINNINGS, YOU ARE TO FILL AND RETURN THE VERIFICATION AND CLEARANCE FORM BELOW TO YOUR CLAIMS AGENT THROUGH THIS EMAIL OR FAX BELOW:

OSA CLAIMS PROCESSING LOTTERY AGENT
Contact Person: Mr. Patrick. C. Gill
Email: [email protected]
Tel:+44 70111 47935 44702 409 7893
Fax:+44870 479 3935 +44870 479 3999
.
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN.



VERIFICATION AND CLERANCE FORM

1. FULL NAMES:__________________________________(BENEFICIARY NAME)

2. RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:_____________________________________________

3. SEX:_______________

4. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH::_________________________________

5. MARITAL STATUS:________________________________________

6. OCCUPATION:________________________

7. E-MAIL ADDRESS:_____________________________

8. TELEPHONE NUMBER:_____________________

9. FAX NUMBER::_____________________

A. BATCH NUMBER:____________________SERIALNO:__________________

B. TICKET NUMBER:____________________ WINNING NO:________________

10. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF COMPANY/INDIVIDUAL___________

11. AMOUNT WON:___________________________________

12. COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:________________________________

13. NEXT OF KIN NAME AND ADDRESS:________________________________

14:DATE NOTIFIED __________________________________

15:PASSPORT NO:________________________________________


PLEASE NOTE: You must have to attach a scanned copy of your international passport, Driver's licence. Is mandatory


DECLARATION:

I...............................................................HEREBY DECLARE THAT THE ABOVE DATA ARE TRUE. IN CASE OF ANY UNFORSEEN CIRCUSTANCE, MY NEXT OF KIN HAS THE RIGHT TO CLAIM MY TOTAL WINNINGS. (OVERSEAS SUBCRIBERS AGENT) SHALL ACT AS MY AGENT IN FACILITATING THE TRANSFER OF THE TOTAL FUND TO ME.
DATE:
YOUR FULL NAMES:

Upon receipt of the duly requested data, Our agent will proceed for proper verification and furnish you with the contact information of the payment Bank in the region where your winning numbers fall within so you can proceed with effecting the release of your claim in anyway you deem fit.


The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com

Is this a new scam emails that going around? I usualy get lots of winning scam emails, but they never involed sites such as Yahoo or MSN before.
Anyone else got such email?

 

[Fewski]

Just got a new type of the lottery spam/scam email:

Is this a new scam emails that going around? I usualy get lots of winning scam emails, but they never involed sites such as Yahoo or MSN before.
Anyone else got such email?

If it's a bigger company, people usaully trust it more. The scammer is probably just trying to use YAHOO to get you to trust the email more. None the less, it is a scam.

 

[Robert Allen]

I noticed 2 things dodgey about it.

1. It contained an address in london, not in Las Vegas.
2. The email was to a netscape account, surely the email would be @yahoo..

Rob

 

[B33R]

Why would they use a phone number from over seas?

A UK number to be exact.

LMAO I was going to suggest calling them but I've just looked at the numbers.

The 2 phone numbers are either mobile phone numbers or just a front with your call actually being forwarded to another number.
The 2 fax numbers are "national rate" numbers, meaning you get charged more than usual and the person you're calling gets the extra fee.

Either way you're paying much more than a normal phone call.

You just don't get clever, believable scams nowadays.

 

[Robert Allen]

I never noticed the UK number, but that is also a problem which this scam has, why would yahoo use a UK number, wouldnt it make more sense to have a cheap or toll free US number?

Rob

 

[Ben42]

To me this is the BIGGEST alarm of the scam:

Your winning fall in Africa-Asia! This promotion takes place every Month .Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Africa-Asia as indicated in your play coupon.In view of this, your TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($250,000) would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Africa-Asia.Our agent zoned for Africa paying bank will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.

Yeah right, the money is coming from Africa...

 

[Coopey]

A UK number to be exact.

LMAO I was going to suggest calling them but I've just looked at the numbers.

The 2 phone numbers are either mobile phone numbers or just a front with your call actually being forwarded to another number.
The 2 fax numbers are "national rate" numbers, meaning you get charged more than usual and the person you're calling gets the extra fee.

Either way you're paying much more than a normal phone call.

You just don't get clever, believable scams nowadays.

070 numbers are personal numbers rather than mobile numbers- like those offered by YAC- they cost a bit to ring- in the format 070xx, the xx will usually represent different charge bands and carriers. I think most will cost £0.50+. The good news is that the person you're calling doesn't (shouldn't) get any of the 50p/m (re: (Offcom) and if they're diverting calls to a mobile they have to pay 10p/m for the priviledge.

What's more likely is that somebody from outside the UK has purchased one of these from one of the many websites offering them and diverted them to their home city- e.g. Lagos. The Register had a bit on this recently.

I thought, and the Offcom link above all suggests that, you cannot get an 070 number from outside the UK. I hope so, because that'll reduce the number of targets who could respond by a huge percentage...

 

[.X.]

if i were able to collect all the money these idiots have said i have won over the last two years, I would be a billioniare -LOL....Seems as africa is one of, if not the biggest internet scamers in the world.