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[seacher]

Hi...
Pls help me whether to believe on this text message
i received ;
"Your phone number:____________(sorry i cant disclose-that is my mobile no.) won $9,500.00 in the Yahoo!10th Birthday Programme. Winners contact
myprize46@yahoo.com for free claims/UPS delivery". www.yahoo.com
Sender : Yahoo!Mail
Message centre: +447781001008

I've been searching quite sometimes, checking whether this is a scam but til this date i can't really find right answer.

Hope you guys can help me somehow...

[GeeH]

This is a scam, so do not contact that email address whatever you do. Whilest this is supposedly run by Yahoo! I doubt they would use their own free email addresses to run a lotterly. Also, did you ever enter this lottery? It is impossible to win any competition you did not enter. Also, Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday was in 2004 if I remember correctly. No doubt one of the more senior members here will shed more light on this, but I am certain in my own mind this is a scam.

[John Fairheart]

Yes, quite correct. This is certainly a scam.

The telephone number [+447781001008 | +44 (0)778 1001008] is a mobile telephone from the "Cable and Wireless Guernsey Limited" network on the Island of Guernsey. You should not contact either the email address or the number and report the incident to your Mobile telephone operator.

There may be little that can do about it, but reporting the incident may provoke an investigation.

Thank you for the alert, and welcome to FraudWatchers.org

[John Fairheart]

More research just in...

searcher, although I realize you are not within the legal influence of the United Kingdom, you may fing this BBC News article of interest.

The article from February this year, states that all Telephone Lotteries are illegal in the European Union (EU).

Article [ here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4293117.stm) ]

The practice of operating telephone lottery scams has been declared illegal throughout the European Union.

The legislation is targeted mainly at the UK, where the Office of Fair Trading has identified such scams as one of the country's top 10 frauds.

Until now, firms operating the scheme have dodged the law by basing themselves outside Britain.

The rules, passed unanimously by the European Parliament, are part of wider EU laws on unfair commercial practice.

There has been a recent explosion in the number of people receiving unwanted automated phone calls telling them they have won a prize if they return the call.

... more on the website ...

Hope this helps.

[Unregistered]

Hi...
Pls help me whether to believe on this text message
i received ;
"Your phone number:_*number removed* sorry i cant disclose-that is my mobile no.) won $9,500.00 in the Yahoo!10th Birthday Programme. Winners contact
myprize46@yahoo.com for free claims/UPS delivery". www.yahoo.com
Sender : Yahoo!Mail
Message centre: +447781001008

I've been searching quite sometimes, checking whether this is a scam but til this date i can't really find right answer.

Hope you guys can help me somehow...
good day sir, we recieved your txt. massage and we want to known how to claim our prize............................

[Unregistered]

sir,
we want to known more about your massage regarding the prize, if u cant help us is better sir.......................

[breccia]

good day sir, we recieved your txt. massage and we want to known how to claim our prize............................

sir,
we want to known more about your massage regarding the prize, if u cant help us is better sir.......................

Hi Unregistered, I am not certain if you are the person who posted the original message. However, what people are saying here is that this is a scam. Please do not respond to any emails, text messages, or phone calls from these poeple, and do not pay them any money.

Can you please reply to let us know that you understand this?