Have you heard of people from africa sending IMs on yahoo trying to scam them and asking them for money?
144966
yes i have and its soo freaking annoying ussallyi just delelte them
551389
It is spam. They are attempting to get your bank details and steal your money.\n\nI currently have loads of relatives in Nigeria that have recently died and want to give me $30 million.\n\nI wish......
574318
i get those ALL THE TIME!!! i hate 'em, just mark it as spam and you wont get them again. like ones that say you enherit 26.7 million or some bull crap? or the family member lives in africa? its dumb scam mail. dont reply to them or they'll keep sending more.
141018
It is a form of the "nigerian bank scam" and they are just trying to get information from you so the can steal money from you.  I get dozens of these emails per month.\n\nI would forward to email to the abuse department of the internet provider where the email originated.  Beyond that, there really isn't much else you can do besides ignore it.
683565
These are boys in a sweatshop environment in Nigeria often called Yahoo-Yahoo boys. They have a huge list of established email addy's to work from. And if you send the an email back it just establishes that you are real. All they need is one sucker and they can become rich. Try a search for Yahoo-Yahoo boys. You may get more info than I can give here.
295373
Best thing for you to do is to delete the message straightaway. I'm from UK and too many scams by post as well as by the internet... there's no new about that... it's just one of the problems around UK, so don't mind that.
56058
Thats the classic Nigerian scam.  And unfortunately people do fall for it from time to time.  Not so much now as that scam has been around for quite some time.  There is actually a website documenting people fighting back and actually scamming the scammers, and getting the scammers to send money to THEM.  Check the link.
667399
It is not real.  The same with all the scam e-mails from Nigeria!  Contact your national Communications Trade Agency.  They would provide information where to report this scam.
443174
It's called a Nigerian scam letter. Thousands of people every year lost hundreds of thousands of dollars getting sucked into these scams.
146429
I received the similar SMS and emails. Its a scam!! I confirmed it with Yahoo! corporate communications.
154866
Report them to Yahoo asap.  \n\nAlso, I have been scammed too.  I am doing my best to stop these crooks from ever scamming again.\nI know they have scammed before, because they said so.\nI am helping other people along the way. I wish to know if these are the same people.  If you do not mind sharing the email address, please send it to me at sqldba_needinglegalhelpasap @yahoo .com\n\nI have also listed the yahoo mail abuse help link below.\nMail abuse is listed at the bottom of the page.
433494
This is 99.9 % likely to be one of these Nigerian scams. Ignore ignore ignore.\n\nI'm modifying this to 100% once I read your question more carefully.  These scams have been going for years, but some people still fall for them.
915936
Are you getting junk mail from them, too?\n\nI even have gotten phone calls from Telemarket scammers with similar song and dance.\n\nIf you have serious business,.. sorry for bothering you.  But every day I get stuff from there and the UK saying I won lottery, need to claim my stocks,.. and even got one saying I had a family member on one of the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers so I need to claim their over 5 Billion Pounds.
80598
Yahoo Messenger is one of the most used IM program worldwide.\nI believe that Yahoo has no interest in making customers pay for its free services, as there are lots of other instant messaging services available for free.\nSo I think that what you keep getting is nothing but "spam"!
849872
Yeah.\nI get that one sometimes too.\nAlong with lots of others 'FROM THE DESK OF' some dickhead in Nigeria.\n\nI've heard that several people have fallen for these scams, and have lost lots of money. I think these scam senders are the scurge of the earth. I now receive about 100 spam e-mails per day. It must be big business. I do wish there weren't so many gullible people in the world, but then most people fall for government scams too, like 9/11 and 7/7.\nI wonder when the world will wake up, if ever.
1179893
any offers coming from nigeria is FRAUD!!!!
62540
It's a scam. Especially if it is from an e-mail on the internet and it is a foreign lottery.