Yahoo Gives away $500 as lottery money?True or false
By raghwagh
@raghwagh (1527)
India
December 20, 2006 12:15am CST
I have received a email from yahoo about four times on my two different email id's saying that you have been selected for the licky prize of $500.The prize will be instantly given in Paypal of egold or Stormpay account and when i request it to trainsper the money in paypal account it says that you are not a premium account holder, and to receive the $500 prize you must first pay $8.6 in their paypal or egold account.I want your suggestion as to what should I do for this.Is this real or scam.
8 responses
@nhtpscd (1416)
• Australia
20 Dec 06
I posted the same thing a couple of days ago. the link at the bottom of the email does in fact take you to yahoo.com. I have contacted their security centre to alert them of this but they haven't replied yet. I will try to update you when they get back to me.
@ayaanah (232)
• India
24 Dec 06
i m daem sure its scam, but why till date i never got any such mail.this was nice n really informatuive discussion buddy as it can save people from giving away there paypal account.
@skroutz1346795 (541)
• Greece
23 Dec 06
I think that it is a scam. I prefer mylot where the money are sure
@sweetsampu (43)
• India
23 Dec 06
Read my lips...
Scam..Scam...Scam
Run as far as you can!!
Anyways why dont you try to verify the phone number or better still, the address if you have got any!! You are likely to find out the truth (whether it is scam or genuine) and then you can get the lottery money also if it is genuine.
You did end up losing a very small amount of money either ways!!
