An
Email with the Subject "Fw: Yahoo Mail Congratulates You!" was
received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:13:51 -0700
and has been classified as a Lotto/Lottery Scam Email.
The sender shows as Arthur Luna <aluna831@sbcglobal.net>.
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--- On Sun, 4/26/09, Yahoo Mail! <info@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- On Sun, 4/26/09, Yahoo Mail! <info@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Yahoo Mail! <info@yahoo.com> Subject: Yahoo Mail Congratulates You! To: aluna831@sbcglobal.net Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009, 9:40 AM
Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly
selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from
us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred
Thousand Pounds for the month of April, 2009 in the Yahoo Mail! promotion.
This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational
companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the
commmunities where they have operational base. Further more your details(e-mail
address) falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom , as
indicated in your play coupon and your prize of 500,000 will be released to you
from this regional branch office in UK.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high
stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers:
Batch number.......................Lwh 09445
Lotto number........................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447
To begin your claims,do reply this email by contacting our claims agent
Mr.Edgar Walters.
You are required to forward him the following details:
1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10.MARITAL STATUS
11.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12 THE MONTH YOU WON
As soon as you contact him, he will advise you on what to do in order to get
your prize money.
Congratulations once more!!
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Lance Hoppes
PROMO CO-ORDINATOR.
Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to register or be a
Yahoo! registered user before winning.
