Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Yahoo Awards Center, is this real?

Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB - United Kingdom
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$3,500,000.00) for the month of April, 2007 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO AWARDS %26 WINDOWS LIVE.

YAHOO collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed no later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
Stated below are your identification numbers:

TICKET NUMBER: 123 123456
Answer:
No, do not give any personal information or money to these people, its a scam. Wouldn't you think that Yahoo would want publicity about a drawing like this? They certainly have the means owning a site like this. A general rule and words to live by, if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

Plus look at your ticket number: "123 123456" LOL, could they make it any more obvious to you?
Dont you think if yahoo did that, they woudl have made some kind of announcement about it?
Don't you think that if they had $3,500,000 U.S. dollars to give away, that they could at least hire someone who could write English well enough to make some semblance of sense in the announcement email.

Any email containing the words "this is to inform you that you have won a prize money..." has to be written by someone who either is grammatically challenged or does not speak English as a native language. Either way I'd steer a long way away.

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