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An Email with the Subject "Congratulation Yahoo & Windowslive Award Winner!!!" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:35:54 -0700 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "Yahoo & Window Live Awards Centre" <uk_coordinator_009@windowslive.com>.
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Yahoo & Window Live Awards Centre
124 Stockport Road,
Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB
United Kingdom.
Tel:+447045723699, Tel:+447045723699.
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Two Hundred &
Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (GBP 250,000.00) in our annual email
award winning promotion which was organized by YAHOO AWARDS &
WINDOWSLIVE.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 e-mail service providers. Ten people are selected yearly
tobenefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE / CLAIMS
Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers. Yahoo
&Windows Live yearly Prize Award must be claimed not later than 30 days
from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this
periodwill be forfeited and returned to its source as unclaimed.Stated
below areyour identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: 2008234522
PIN: 1207
You are requested to contact our co-ordinator in Manchester and send
yourwinning identification numbers to him:
Co-ordinator's Name: Mr. Brad Richards
E-Mail: uk_coordinator_008@live.com
You are advised to send the following information to our co-ordinator to
facilitate the release of of your fund to you.
1. Full name..................................
2. Country....................................
3. Contact Address............................
4. Telephone Number...........................
5. fax Number.................................
5. Marital Status.............................
6. Occupation.................................
7. Sex........................................
8. Date of Birth/Age .........................
Congratulations!! once again.Yours in service,
Mrs. Grace Sanders
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WARNING!
You must keep strict confidentiality of your Prize Award claims to
yourself until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid
disqualification that may arise from double claims.
Yahoo Awards Team shall not be held liable for any loss of funds
arisingfrom the above.