You won $500 from Yahoo mail is scam becareful!!!!

@zabawaus (1730)
United States
September 10, 2007 4:34am CST
Maybe some of you got this e-mail just wanted to warn you . The e-mail said that I was one of those “randomly” selected members who won $500. I was one of the 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from them, it says. To strengthen my suspicion that this is a hoax, I searched the web for more stories related to it. Indeed, it was a phishing activity which intend to collect personal and bank information of users. A user has also asked about it in Yahoo! Answers, confirming if it was true. Apparently more than 12 users, contrary to what have stated in the e-mail, in which there were only 12 lucky winners, have received the said e-mail. This phishing attack was also reported by some Gmail users. For non-suspecting e-mail recipients, the e-mail might appear genuine. You have to evaluate first the e-mail before succumbing to it right away. You all have a great day !!!
2 responses
@wonderful1 (2075)
• China
10 Sep 07
thank you for your posting. i received such emails several times and each of my yahoo eamilbox received this eamil, but i can't open the link, so i think it is a scam. and i know lots of members here received this email too. there are lots of scams online now, so we must take care of them. Besides, i hope everyone can win a big prize. haha. good luck.
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@djmarion (4898)
• Philippines
10 Sep 07
true zabawaus, as a matter of fact i also recieve that kind of email from "yahoo" and i also created a discussion like this one before. here is the link of my discussion. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1259546.aspx hope you could read it too.
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