IS THIS FOR REAL OR JUST MORE SPAM?
By
"MIKE DENISON"
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS FROM YAHOO!!!!
Date: Sat, eighteen November 2006 04:09:47 +0100 (CET)
To:
You won $1,500.000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!
Messenger
CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU WON $1,500.000.00!
Dear ,
I am happy to surprise you which you have been comparison as one of the propitious winners in the YAHOO INTERNET MONTHLY RAFFLE DRAW. The cost income you have won is the total of U.S $1,500.000.00
Yes, the for real, as most people would ask, and you have been between this months six(6) propitious winners, as this raffle pull is orderly usually once each month, and the criteria for assignment and winning is which the impending leader contingency be between those online as at the time of selection. The process of preference is by electronic list complement operated by and manipulated by computer, hence, there is no possibility of greedy manipulations by humans in this raffle programme.
Your winning anxiety numbers have been as follows:
WINNING NUMBER: 00005E
CODE NUMBER: 23109222
BATCH NUMBER: 06/05/046
Yahoo motionless to settle this programme as a approach of thanking there countless customers/subscribers for there stark await and faithfulness to the Yahoo Network. As a outcome of this loyalty, Yahoo Internet Network is the greatest and often subscribed network around the globe, interjection to Yahoo patron support.
To proceed to explain your fortune, email the raflle await group with the following email address: frankben_50@yahoo.co.uk Please, attempt to allude to your anxiety numbers in all correspondence.You can additionally hit Dr. Frank Ben on this number:+44-702-406-8359.
Congratulations once more!!
Yours Sincerely,
MIKE DENISON (PHD),
ONLINE CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com
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11 Comments
July 29th, 2009 at 10:04 am
There is no such thing as Yahoo Internet Monthly Raffle Draw
July 30th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
im not sure if it is real….thats a toughy
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:27 am
Try to get Spam protection and it probably is.
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Haha, dude, just look at the source address. Does that look legit?
August 5th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
This is spam. Look at the senders address and the domain is not coming from Yahoo!. Also probably on your actual email, the link to yahoo would direct you to a fake site, where they would steal your identity. Hope this help
August 8th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Sounds like spam.
If something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
August 11th, 2009 at 2:10 am
i got this from another person that asked the same question and this answer was voted best
I get these daily!!!!!!!!!
I also get "dying people", saying they want to make a 'deathbed repentance', etc., who want me to take over many millions for benevolent work.
I must admit, I have been caught twice already on these … and be careful, as 'benny' says, they try all sorts of angles to get your sympathy…. and they usually begin by asking insurance costs and conveyance fees.
For most, these are usually only a few $100, but psychologically, they know that once you send that first bit, you are basically locked in. Then they ask for $1,000s, in taxes and clearance fees, etc.
Before you know it, you have likely paid tens 1000s!
Be very careful and avoid them!
I had one poor fellow ring me up and say he had already lost $150,000 to try and get one of these!!
But that was not the worst of it; he had lost his house, his wife, his family, his business; it's just not worth it!!
THEY ARE CRUEL - THESE THINGS!
AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!
In addition, I also get daily invites from individuals saying they want me to stand in for some dead dude, usually worth about 20 million or 40 million, etc.
The biggest I had by far, was only 3 weeks ago - claiming he had 1.35 Billion!!!!!!!!!! in the name of some dead Middle-easterner!! from before the War.
I just told this guy that that amount in the hands of anybody - especially if he used a Middle-easterner to stand in as Next of Kin for this dead person - is potentially dangerous for me and you and for all our families and grandchildren!!
Generally though I just send this, in answer, and never get them bother me again:
PLEASE FORGIVE OUR AUTOMATED RESPONSE:
OUR COMPANY RECEIVES SO MANY REQUESTS DUE TO ITS ENORMOUS PROFILE THAT OUR SYSTEM IS NOT ABLE TO COPE AND RESPOND APPROPRIATELY WITHIN NORMAL TIME FRAMES - ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE ENORMOUS DISTANCES FOR OUR SIGNALS TO TRAVEL.
IN EFFECT, YOUR MAIL HAS BEEN AUTOMATICALLY DETECTED BY OUR SYSTEM AS ONE, "OUTSTANDING", SO WE TAKE THIS MOMENT TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INAPPROPRIATE DELAY ON OUR PART AND ANY UNDUE INCONVENIENCE WHICH THIS LACK OF COMMUNIQUE MAY HAVE CAUSED YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION.
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August 14th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Yeah, baby! It's real! Just like Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Great Pumpkin! You lucky person, you!
August 16th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Doesn't common sense tell you it's too good to be true? And so it is.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
In addition to all of the above, Yahoo would not spell "program" the way it is spelled, endeavor is misspelled, and raffle tickets have to be purchased. Did you buy a raffle ticket from Yahoo?
August 18th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Generally they are spam. Many hours are wasted due to spam email. However, by taking simple precautions while giving out your email and installing updated free software, you can prevent spam. More info available at