Did you get mail from the Yahoo! Awards Center? I hate to break it to you, but the mail is fake. It’s a typical scam, sent to thousands of people in order to try to steal their money, their identity or just pick petty change from them by making them answer, and thereby confirm their e-mail address. If you have any doubt whatsoever that this is a scam, stop just for a second and think of why Yahoo! would use an email address from their competitor Google’s online email service GMail.

Here’s my copy, if you got one like these, or even remotely like these it’s an iScam. Just throw it away and try to forget about it.

from    Yahoo Award Center <awardcenterr@gmail.com>
reply-to    awardcenterr@gmail.com
to    undisclosed-recipients
date    Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:56 PM
subject    *****SPAM***** YAHOO AWARD *****WINNING NOTIFICATION*****Reply

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 One Million Great Britian pounds (GBP1,000,000.00) for the first quarter 2008 prize promotion which is organised by YAHOO AWARDS &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 email providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are of the Select Winners. Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers.

Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later that 30days from date of Draw  Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and returned to it source as unclaimed. Stateed below are your identification numbers.

BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658 REFERENCE NUMBER: 2007234522 PIN: 1207
You are requested to contact our co-ordinator in Manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him. You are advise only to contact the Co-ordinator’s on the email below

Email: awardcenterr@gmail.com
Name: Rev Paul jeddy

You are advise only to contact on the email above (awardcenterr@gmail.com)

You are advised to send the following information to our co-ordinator to facilitate the release of your fund to you

Full name, country, contact address, telephone number, fax number,marital status, occupation, sex, date of birth.

Your in Service
Mrs Mary Harmon

It’s a nice detail that Yahoo! would use a GMail address for correspondence. Thee

11 Responses to “Yahoo Award Center”
  1. heather says:

    that son of a bitch i would like to put my hands around his neck …….. i got the same bloody FROM: STAKES LOTTERY PROMOTIONS
    MICRO-SOFT SWEEPSTAKES HEAD OFFICE
    Bandar Seri Begawan 1150
    Brunei Darussalam (BRN)
    REF NUNMBER: 040/055/337
    BATCH NUMBER: 561702-PCD004

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!

    This is to inform you of the release of the STAKES LOTTERY PROMO held on the 30th of September 2008, but due to the mix up of numbers and addresses, the results were released today 15th of October 2008. Your name was attached to ticket number 27522465897-6454 with serial number 3773-555 that drew the lucky numbers of 7-14-18-23-31-45, which consequently won the lottery in the 3rd category.

    You have now been approved for a lump sum of 3,400.000:00 Euros (THREE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND EUROS FOR 2008 AWARD SESSION) in cash credited to file with REF NO: KSL/040/055/337. This is from a total cash prize of Euros 60,015.225.00, shared among the twenty five international winners in this category. Note that all participants in this lottery program have been selected randomly through a computer ballot system drawn from over 30,000 companies and 800,000 individual email addresses from all search engines and web sites. This promotional program takes place every year and we hope your lucky name will draw a bigger cash prize in the subsequent programs.

    CONGRATULATIONS! ****The program takes place every year and was promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like His Royal Highness, the Sultan of Brunei (Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah). We look forward to your active participation in our next year $20 million slot. **** We are aware that a few individuals such as members of staffs, social groups etc might try to cheat you off your winning fund, Hence you are advised to maintain strictness when calling because we usually prefer to call your attention when needed, Also please note that for security reason our referred email address are very safe, thank you.

    Your fund is now deposited with our Security Company and insured under your address. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claims has been processed and the money remitted to your account as this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming of unwarranted taking advantage of this program by participants as it has happened in the past. You can travel down to any of our seven paying stations for this award session, which might be any of the following countries where we have our lottery accounts deposited with different finance institution including U.K, SWITZERLAND, BELGIUM, BRUNIE etc

    To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Solicitor to this great promotions today by sending your winning Reference and Batch numbers in quote,
    BARRISTER OLEBJORN TELLESFEN,
    SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
    E-mail: barristerolebjorn1960@gmail.com
    Telephone No: +44 707 708 6702

    Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than this award session. Any claim not made before this date will be returned as unclaimed. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (PERRAS PROMOTION COMPANY & KING ASSOCIATES LTD.) Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery on your name, NOTE: - this 10% will be remitted after you have finally received your winning prize because the money is already insured in your winning identity.

    Note; In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in every correspondence with your claims agent, you are to provide the below details, to enable the speedy evaluation and processing of your winnings. We advice that you adhere strictly to their procedures to avoid any disqualifications and subsequent cancellation.

    NAME IN FULL:
    FULL CONTACT ADDRESS;
    CONTACT PHONE & FAX NUMBER;
    WINNING EMAIL ADDRESS;

    The above detailed information will be absolutely necessary to file in your claims.

    PLEASE NOTE, YOU ARE TO KEEP ALL LOTTERY INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC AS WE WILL NOT ENTERTAIN CASES OF MULTIPLE CLAIMS PROCESSING OR COMPROMISE THE PRIVACY AND SECURITY OF OUR ENTIRE WINNER, THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF THE STAKES LOTTERY PROMOTION.

    Furthermore, Shall there be any change of address do inform our Solicitor as soon as possible. All documents and Certificates related to your winning prize will be sent to you by the auditor general STAKES LOTTERY PROMOTIONS via courier to your postal address upon the transfer of your winning fund via your preferred mode of payment.

    CONGRATULATIONS!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International promotions program.

    We wish you continue good fortunes.
    Dr. Eduardo Luciano Duque,
    (Vice President)
    15 - 10 - 2008.

  2. heather says:

    i even called the number its dicks like this that i would feed to my pittbull

  3. regenald breydin says:

    i got this frau e.mail to day i all ready new it was a scam lottery scam if i was to get all the fraud e.mail winning i have receved i would be a multie million air there all fraud them owl lotterys how can you win and you not entered

  4. regenald breydin says:

    reginald breydin londonderry
    ———————————-
    i have receved 1000 fraud e.mails in 3 months im well used to seing the scams i got one saying may god be with you i replied from a direct e.mail box and said may the internet police and fraud squad be with you to dear soon you frauding owl hag every sacm of the day using free e.mail accounts live
    @GMAIL.COM @YAHOO.COM GMAIL SEAMS TO BE THERE FEVERATE the scumbags all i can say

  5. Dr. Kuldip Kaur Dhaliwal,INDIA says:

    Kindly show the List of Yahoo Award winnersi October 2008

  6. Puzzles says:

    What happen if I provide an address of where I work??

  7. Is it real to get an Award from Yahoo Michrosoft?

  8. I was sent an email about 1000000 Prize from Yahoo. Is it real?

  9. giridhar rao says:

    I would like to know why yahoo.com cannot take any legal action against such fake
    games in its name.?

  10. aboul fazl ebrahim yazdi says:

    am I a winner

  11. Ayraenne says:

    Ha Ha Wouldn’t it be so lovely to recieve that much money. I can only imagine how they come up with all that money when our economy is so messed up. Ha Ha those sap suckas. Got an email today they didnt even put enough zeros in the amount they wrote. Fools I tell you FOOLS Ha Ha

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