I WON $500! Yahoo! Mail congratulates ME!

i'm very sympathetic.meanwhile,i want to show you a way to avoid these spams.that is , do not leave your personal information such as email ,phone number on some strange websites!of course besides MYLOT. :)

Hey, Thank you for posting this, i have also received such kind of mails, today i was about to pay them $8.25, i waited all these days because i dint had enough cash in my account, today i got the credit and i am very happy, that i received the payment, and was about to pay them, thinking that they would pay me back $500, yahoo being so, brand name i trusted them blindly, thanks a lot you saved my first earning Thanks a ton dear, may god bless you

yeah i know this.there were many kinda these mails in my mail.thank god i didnt had enough paypal balance at dat time.but i know how can we get a mail from yahoo admin.its disgusting.

I totally agree it is a plain and simple spam mail. I have received these fake mails so many times and I delete them immediately. It's a good thing you posted these mails to everyone and I'm happy for you.

Wow. I thought you were being honest there for a second and I was like "HOw can she truly believe this?" But now I see that it's just a joke-ish post, so I'm happy. I didn't want to have to explain the spam mail to someone who doesn't understand spam.

Hi there, you are right it sounded just a bit too good to be true. I have had the same thing before, and I did not pay anything either. But just imagine how many people who really need the cash would. It is indeed a big scam

Well this is so sad , i doubt internet have any real and good lucky draws yea

Well, that was not sent from Yahoo. It was spam. I too had received one mails saying I was shortlisted for some online lotto. And there were only 9 other people so I had a 1 in 10 chance of winning it. To qualify for the draw I had to send them my bank details. Well, I understood the scam, and closed the window instantly.

Hi there. I found any email in that fashion, coming from yahoo mail, is a big hauks, a fraud... I use to get these typical mails messages, until I reported it to spam@yahoo...

Thank you for reminding us that this phishing scam still exists within our midst. This one however doesn't come that often nowadays. These days, the scams I keep receiving almost daily are those relating to an inheritance to be collected, or a lottery I have won even though I have not purchased any ticket. Frankly, I am quite tired of these, and they certainly don't alarm me anymore when I see them in my inbox. Someone should compile an encyclopaedia of all these scams, describing everything there is to know about them. It will be such a good resource for all PC users.

Yeah on internet really have lots of scam.Thank you for informing us here in my lots.

You are right.Everyone will be very excited when we receive this kind of email.But after a while,we should think about it seriously. Maybe there exists some traps.Therefore,wo should be causious.

We shouldn't take it so seriously, just delete it right after you see the subject ( be cautious, coz money doesn't come that easy). Such e-mail is nothing more then just a perfect spam. But still I wonder how it passed trough yahoo's spam filter and went right to your inbox.

Hey, don't waste your time. All that messages that you have awarded with $500 etc. are just nothing.

I've received this message for many times. First,I was curious about it,so I opened it.However,it couldn't display.Nowaday,when I receive it,I delete it immediately.I think your post will help others who receive this message.Thank you.

Yup, true! I am always worry about this emails. I have received my fair share of this emails but have deleted them immediately. No use going further when the word FREE is warning enough.

I've gotten that same email several times and I actually wrote to yahoo. They told me this was a scam. It is crazy what people do to scam others out of money!

scam..very old scam..i had posted about this when i had received e-mails like it..i got for about 8 notifications i won a raffle from yahoo users..lots of people here had seen this scam too and some tried to claim it only for them redirected to pay $8 then after they paid they are redirected again to pay $10 and so on and so forth..nothing ever is true upon sites claiming you won..some are so funny but no matter how much we find it funny there are still people i pity because they believed in this scams.

i receive that kind of mail too and i just ignore it. if i won why are they asking me for a payment first to get that money. instead they are the one needing our money and if we will pay them it's just like they are winning and we are the one giving them the prize...lol it's clearly scam!

thanks for the concern!