be careful of yahoo.mail

@kostar07 (386)
Indonesia
March 31, 2007 5:28am CST
i received email from yahoo.mail group, and it said i win for 500$.after i follow all instruction,i am getting paid.even i lost my money from my e-gold account.if you received mail like this,you better deleted this mail.
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11 responses
@aliasad (1567)
• Pakistan
31 Mar 07
Dear would you like to tell from whom you received the mail and what instructions were there to be followed. I have just started my discussion right below this one, facing the same and want to know all of the misery happened to you for others to be careful.
@kostar07 (386)
• Indonesia
31 Mar 07
from yahoo mail group.this no information about this,who is the owner.it just said,you win for a random games.
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• United States
31 Mar 07
Yes, I believe you are absolutely correct on this matter, read too many and filled out unneccessary survey's for nothing, they just want your credit card number and buy something. No laptops, no shopping sprees, no gift cards, gas, or gift certificates it's all a scam, just like ABOUT everything else of. Learn and earn is what my motto is. And anything that sounds to good to be true is to good to be true.
• Philippines
1 Apr 07
This is horrible! I was right for not trusting those spam e-mails on the bulk folder of my e-mail. There are lots of scam strategy today lurking in the net. Some of the most reported scams are those e-mails about lottery and special offers. You should not trust them fully for there is no one whom I know who have been paid from this programs. Instead, you will lose something from expecting you can gain something from them.
@kostar07 (386)
• Indonesia
1 Apr 07
and what must i do.? must i delete my e-mail or my e-gold and then make a new one..? i think to delete my emails is impossible, because all my friends is connected and i save their profiles in my mail box.
@toonatoons (3737)
• Philippines
31 Mar 07
yeah, i've received a lot of emails like that, and i just knew they had to be a scam because they required some form of payment. so now, whenever i receive emails of the sort, i just simply ignore them.
@supersach (1523)
• India
28 Apr 07
I have been receiving that piece of crap on a regular basis over the last couple of months so once I decided to check it out. I thought, why not check it out, if they are giving away $500. But when they asked for $8 for registering for some game, I realized that it was a scam. You should be more careful with your money, my friend.
• Serbia And Montenegro
31 Mar 07
What are the instructions? Did they ask you for your e-gold account? And then asked you to even key in your password? How much did you lose from your e-gold account? I've heard about this one too, but never received the email myself (hope i won't).
@kostar07 (386)
• Indonesia
31 Mar 07
yup,it said you can claim your 500$ after you join for gold member and it cost 8$.as an ordinary human,it is very interesting and i agree to pay for it,but rather than receive my money,i lost completely my e-gold.better deleted this mail.
@efreddy (250)
• Belgium
31 Mar 07
I've ever received a mail I won 1000000 £ and have to follow the instructions,I have followed the instructions untill I have to pay some money for the expences,that's ridiculous you should trapped in this sort of scam,when you have really won 1000000 £ and there were expences they must take it from the winning money and not asking you to pay. They can keep their 1000000 £ !
• India
31 Mar 07
You have to take utter care,while doing online transaction.Dont respond to spam mails.Now this type of news is hearing daily.We have to create proper awareness amoung the people about the fraud emails.Dont blindly believe such emails.I also recieved such mails and never responded to such mails.
@disvachic (10117)
• United States
31 Mar 07
I wish i could have warned you!!! oH yes i get email almost every day saying i have a lottery or my name has being chosen.All of them are scams.They are so phony!!!! I am sorry you had to loose your money.I hope that you can do something about it,because thease people have nothing better to do than scam innocent people out of their personal information and steal!!
@samson1967 (7414)
• India
31 Mar 07
I always take precautions against such mails and never pay money to any of them in advance, without getting the required work done.
• United States
31 Mar 07
This is what you call the spam email, this is not originally from yahoo, some people or group of scammers sends this randomly to available accounts. So maybe you manage your settings and change it. If you receive similar email like this one just ignore it, and mark it as spam. I always receive this kind of emails, i just send it to trash immediately. cheers=)
@kampo90 (289)
• Antarctica
31 Mar 07
yeah i recievd the same mail a few times but i think its just from a few scammers also if you gte a mail that goes something like this: yahoo mail bot plz give your infromations because we have some problems and we want to fix your contact list or something like and ask for you login name and pasword have the comon sense to no give it to them because it aint yahoo they already have the password to your acount its on there server