Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes? I received a e-mail like this : You won $500! Yahoo! Mail?
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Don't give them you bank account details.
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Nothing.\nYahoo thought that they would have more time to figure it out, so they wrote in "Be the first to find out!"\nI think I was the first to reach 25,000 and Level 7.  I am now at over 50,000 points and still do not know.\nI do get a lot of email, but from other Users, not from Yahoo.
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Whoa! It's a nice mail regarding lottery wins. You must have already seen those attractions. Kool!! I know what they do. First, they are gonna ask whether you are interested or not. I remember..... they wouldn't pay much interest to you. This way or that, the would require your registration. And a......... it's like this: -\n\n"We greatly invite you to our community, sir. Our correspondence office in your city is going to contact you for the details of ########## sum for money transfer. Prior to this short process we need your registration and again a short sum of 5000 Rupees (~$120) to continue with your coinfirmation to our central office. We hope your response for the same."\n\nAnd who cares for 5000 if there's 500000000. Then you reply and send the money, for you see those registered sites and technical e-mails. And then there is nothing left for you to be done. You see it was all clear and so wonderful, you get up like a model millionare and end like a millionare model. Finally, you get a heartattack and next day you find yourself in a hospital. Loosing 5000 was a good experience for you and you again found an email saying " YOU WON ####################################### SUM IN A LOTTERY"\n\nor else switch on your spam blocker kit........
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No! There are many hoax e-mail messages (such as the one you are describing) on the Internet, claiming that Microsoft or some other company will reward anyone who forwards the message to as many people as possible. Always ignore these messages. No one gives money to anyone for the hell of it and you cannot win a lottery you did not buy a ticket for. That's the basic rule of any lottery.\n\nIf you ever get messages that promise you of unbelievable riches, do not believe them. If you get a message from someone you do not know, do not open it and do not read it. Delete the message.
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It's a scam!  I received the same letter.  Mark it as spam and delete it.
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it is not Yahoo, it is your email. You must have good sense to keep from getting scammed. It sounds like your number has been stolen, you need to cancel that card. You have to tell Yahoo if your email is a spam, and they will delete it. Anytime you get an email wanting to give you money, you should thouroly check it out, the scammers thrive by having people jump on it instead of checking, and Yahoo will not give you 500.00, bet on it
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No, sorry, no money is involved. Had that been the case, many people may have gotten rich for their wealthy contributions to the site. However, it is true that you get a thank you from Yahoo! but it is a thank you that you merely imagine to yourself.\n\nOverall, your reward is simply the thought that you may have enlightened someone's day by helping them in their question.
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It's a scam to get your personal information from you.  If you respond, there will start asking for your bank account information, etc.  They might ask for a "processing fee" to get the money to you.  It is a total scam.  Thing about it for a minute:  did you enter any foreign lotteries?  Probably not.  I get about about a dozen of these emails per week and they all go into my spam folder.
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Do you recall entering this particular Lotto?Most likely you did not and it is most likely a scam. I receive silly emails of pictures of money,checks,won lotto's ,all kinds of junk telling me somebody died and left money in other countries.Don't believe any of this junk stuff.Just Delete it.If you get in the snail mail(postal)destroy it.
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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. It sounds like a scam to me. If you had really won money from a legitimate entity, they would contact you by the phone or more likely through certified mail. DO NOT reply to this email!
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Have not noticed the problem but let's hope that Yahoo has!\n\nIs there a reporting system to suggest to Yahoo that spam is obvious by such a yahoo member?
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Do you receive any emails at your yahoo email account at all? Say if you send yourself an email, are you able to get it? How about doing a search of 'ebay' to see if the mails are in some other folders. \n\nI also suggest you contact Yahoo Mail customer care:  http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/ , where there is a link near the end of the page.
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woohoo time to send some spam.....\n\nNOTE: I won't realy spam you but be carefufull where you post your email the internet is not safe\n\nBTW: yahoo is haveing latent connection issues, try again later
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Yahoo Mail does not send any lotto notices, even if the message appears that it came from Yahoo.\n\nALL lotto notices are SPAM - plain and simple. Do not open them, as sometimes just opening the message alerts their spambots that your e-mail address is valid. Delete all such messages that tout "lotto - you have won!" and save yourself from future aggravation.\n\nIf you permanently want to prevent these spam-a-sites from dumping any more of their crap into your Inbox, you can always create a filter to divert any message with the subject 'lotto' to the trashcan, where it belongs.\n\nYou can create filters through your mail options link.
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I've not recieved an eamil in my Yahoo email account in two days. On any given day I usually recieve 100-150 emails, now nothing.\nI've checked in my Yahoo groups and nothing is bouncing.\nI'm also very disappointed there is no customer support in existance. If there is Yahoo has conveniently hidden it from us from accessing it!
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If you get an email from, say, stranger@yahoo.com - then your best chance of finding SOME further info might be to enter http://profiles.yahoo.com/stranger into your browser.\n\nBut remember, any email in that sort of format is NOT "from Yahoo", by which I mean it is never a direct communication from Yahoo to you - it is simply from a USER of Yahoo, just like you and I are.\n\nSo IF such an email tells you you've just won $10000 in the Yahoo Lottery, or that Yahoo is going to CHARGE for all its products starying next month, or ANY such thing - TREAT IT AS GARBAGE.  HOAX.\n\nThat is NOT how the real Yahoo communicates.
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Yahoo mail generally does not get "hacked"  Odds are like 1 in a billion.  Bet someone you know had your password.  Possible someone insecure???