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An Email with the Subject "PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:42:13 -0500 and has been classified as a Lotto/Lottery Scam Email. The sender shows as "YAHOO LOTTERY"<betaannyao@yahoo.com.hk>.
The email address was probably spoofed. Do not reply to or contact any persons or organizations referenced in this email, or follow any URLs as you may expose yourself to scammers and, at the very least, you will be added to their email address lists for spam purposes.
YAHOO BETA LOTTERY AWARD 2009
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS
($400,000.00) for the year 2009 Lottery promotion which is was organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for
the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onto.
YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arrange and gather all the e-mail addresses of the people that are
active online, among the millions that subscribed to All email Address, and others we only select
Nine (9) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without
the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
You are to contact our Claim Agent to claim your price with your winning number as directed.
Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 20 days from date of Draw Notification.
Note: Any prize not claimed within this period (20 days) will be forfeited.
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.....................YBM-EBS-2009AF
Winning number...............YBM-EBS-711AF
These numbers above fall within the agent Location file, you are requested to contact your Agent
and send your winning Numbers and Personal Information to him;
Mr Paul Yu (CLAIM AGENT) at his email:
E-mail: paymentoffice926@yahoo.com.cn
You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate and process
the transfer of your fund with the appointed paying bank.
Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him immediately:
Personal Information
Full name..................
Country....................
Contact Address...........
Telephone Number.........
Occupation..................
Age.........................
Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,
YAHOO!!!!!!!
We hope you're enjoying your new Yahoo! Mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to Yahoo!