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Yahoo award & msn window live promotion center

124 stockport road, long sight, manchester m60 2db - united kingdom

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of eight hundred and twenty thousand great britain pounds, (£820, 000, 00.) for the month of may, 2009 prize promotion which was organized by yahoo awards & msn windows live.

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 providers. Five people are selected this month to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the selected winners.

Payment of prize and claim

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his / her settlement centre. Yahoo prize award must be claimed no later than 93 days from date of draw notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below are your identification numbers:

Batch number: mfi / 06 / apa - 43658
Reference number: [protected]

Pin: 1206

Winning number:. . . Your browser may not support display of this image. Your browser may not support display of this image. Your browser may not support display of this image. Your browser may not support display of this image. Your browser may not support display of this image. Your browser may not support display of this image.
These numbers fall within the england location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him;

Agent name: mr. Benjamin stevens.
Address: 194 station road edgware greater london ha8 7at, england

Please contact him through these emails,

E - mail: [protected]@representative.com

E –mail [protected]@googlemail.com

Tel: ++[protected]
Fax: +[protected]
You are advised to send the following informations to your agent to facilitate the release of your winning fund to you.

1. Full names. . .

2. Country. . .

3. Contact address. . .

4. Telephone number. . .

5. Fax number. . .

6. Marital status. . .

7. Occupation. . .

8. My date of birth. . .

9. Sex. . .

10. Your banking information where the fund will be transferred into, either in your country or out side.

11. I. E. The account number, bank name, swift code of the bank, address of the bank and the account name.

Congratulations! Once again.

Yours in service,
Mrs. Mercy martins

Warning!

Do not tell people about your prize award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim.

You may also receive similar e - mails from people portraying to be other organizations or yahoo inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e - mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.

Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned

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BAricelly
US
Aug 29, 2011 3:00 pm EDT

Since they "upgraded" their mail program, yahoo has been buggy, and always crashes when I try to log out... sometimes it takes 5 or 6 tries to log off... Very annoying. Long load times are just plain frustrating too :P

On the up side... the spam filter is still working great!

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Dwaun
Chicago, US
Oct 10, 2011 6:48 am EDT

I have a five year statue of limitations on Yahoo Answers
Account suspension and violation notices. Yahoo Answers
Community has been attacking me verbally since 2007;
I recently posted a wrestling question about Superstar Triple H; who is in charge, they reported my question, I knew what I was talking about, I watched wrestling for thirteen years and They act like I don't know anything, They call me names Like Virgin Nerds and tell me I'm a waste of space, I wish them to stop harassing users who have opinions that they disagree with. Can you make
Them stop, please? Report their moderator and have them
Put on trial?

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mikeydt
morecmabe, GB
Oct 14, 2011 10:25 am EDT
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There are a lot of cases where yahoo are suspending peoples email account and they are not given any explanation for their actions and are simply getting out of giving explanations by quoting their 'tos'

i held an account with yahoo for ten years then after changing my password i found no matter how many times i tried with the new password i couldn't log in.

i went to the reset form and it told me to contact customer services. i contacted them and was told that the account was locked, i was given no explantion and redirected to report abuse but as no one had done anything then i thought why am i filling out this form.

in respect of that there was no abuse i sent an email to yahoo and was told that my old account had been suspended.

i have asked 3 times for an explanation and each time i am fobbed off and quoted 'tos'.

as this yahoo 'tos' is miles long and i have no idea of what violation i might of committed. it seems to be a shamble if you haven't done anything wrong for an account which has been held for so long to be stopped and further more in ten years i haven't received one warning!

in my eyes yahoo have no respect and are disgraceful if they can't provide a simple explanation to stopping someone's account after holding it for so long.

if you are a representive of yahoo why would you be suspending so many peoples accounts without any form of explanation. yahoo to hide behind 'tos' is not acceptable and people are owed decent, honest explanations as to why their accounts are been suspended

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mikeydt
morecmabe, GB
Oct 14, 2011 12:14 pm EDT
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sorry you are totally wrong, no explanation was given for the termination and no warnings were ever issued before hand.

there are lots of people who have encountered this same problem with yahoo.

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mikeydt
morecmabe, GB
Oct 14, 2011 1:01 pm EDT
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sorry but the relevant part of their 'tos' was not quoted!

how about explaining why i have found loads of others on the internet in this same situation or they all wrong as well?

if i suspended your accounts giving absolutley no explanation how would you feel?

will wait to see what other yahoo users think or a rep has to say

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internet guy
US
Dec 12, 2011 8:17 pm EST

I will also be changing to g-mail. I was told by yahoo to change my password (which I do frequently). I have changed it 15-20 times in the past year and a half. I am still getting the e-mails going out to all my contacts. Do you know how embarrassing it is to be sending a viagra ad to your boss when you are a pharmacist? (Lucky I wasn’t terminated.) My poor parents also suffered the same fate and it was about sex toys. Yahoo doesn’t care…. Urge everyone to change to different service. Obviously changing passwords hasn’t worked for others either…

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Jombal
US
Mar 09, 2012 11:25 am EST

My account was deleted for no apparent reason. I cannot access my emails, contacts nor documents. 9 years of information down the drain. This is absolutely ridiculous. I have done nothing wrong.

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khushdeep.chhatwal
Melbourne, AU
Aug 14, 2012 12:31 pm EDT

to yahoo owner,
with no respect towards your business i want to explain you a fact about your cheap level business strategies being used to get online customers. I have been using yahoo mail from last 10 yrs and never hada complaint with the email system however i had plenty of your rivals to go with. by luck i was your business member, but you petty thieves have been using various computer software programmes to loot people and to misguide them in real lives as well plus your contribution towards society is nill and now negative in my eyes. why does the chat option appears on your main page and then computer software supports it. i wasted 1 hour of my precious life to you silly money blinded rats. it is highly unlikely that you are unaware of these things and may use the word virus for it. please dont else the virus will be a big trouble for your business.
it is my courtsey and way of saying thanks to back stabbers like...guesss/

regards.

customer
khushdeep
khushdeep.chhatwal@yahoo.com

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STamess
US
Aug 28, 2012 6:39 am EDT

Only email account of mine that ever got hacked.

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Frances Tuipulotu
FJ
Nov 27, 2012 2:26 pm EST

I have received the same.Its too good to be true...lol
YAHOO & MSN WINDOW LIVE AWARD PROMOTION CENTER
Promotions/ Prize Award Department South Africa.

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won prize money of Eight Hundred And Twenty Thousand United State Dollars, ($820, 000.00) for the Easter Bonanza Promotion 2012, which was organized by YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE AWARDS.

Yahoo/Msn collects all email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other E-mail Providers. Five people are selected this month to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the lucky Selected Winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE PRIZE AWARD must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below are your identification numbers:

BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: [protected]
WINNING NUMBER: 14, 21, 30, 34, 47, 71
PIN: 1206

These numbers fall within the Africa Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him:

Agent Name: Mr. John Smith
Address: 1st Floor Medical Mews, Sandton City, South Africa.
PLEASE CONTACT HIM THROUGH THIS EMAIL, ADDRESSES:
E-mail: johnsmith7620@yahoo.com
E-mail: johnsmith7620@yahoo.com
Tel: +[protected]

You are advised to send the following information’s to your agent to facilitate the release of your winning fund to you.

1. Full Names:…………………………………..
2. Country:…………………………………..…..
3. Contact Address:………………………..….
4. Telephone Number:……………………..….
5. Fax Number:……………………...………….
6. Marital Status:……………………………….
7. Occupation:………………………………….
8. Date of birth:…………………………………
9. Sex:……...…………………………………….

Mrs. Rita Johanness

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Nckchie George Winkler
Washington, US
Dec 08, 2012 7:51 am EST

Attention all networks Yahoo, Google, Bing, Aol, Earthlink, Netzero, Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, newser, USATODAY, COMCAST, Conan Obrian, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Rush Limbha! This Message Includes All Internet and networks worldwide! A PUBLIC WARNIG!

SLANDER, DEFAMATORY LANGUAGE, HARASSMENT MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS, ABUSE BY CYBER BULLYING ARE ALL AGAINST THE LAW! ANYONE MISSUSING THE INTERNET IN ANY ABUSIVE OR NEGATIVE WAYS NEED TO BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW! SO ALL OF YOU THAT ARE MISSUSING THE INTERNET, MEDIA OR ENTERTAINMENT FOR SLANDER AND ABUSE THAN JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED! THIS ALSO INCLUDES ALL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT OR LAW OFFICIALS IN ALL LEVELS! YOU DO THE CRIME YOU PAY YOUR TIME!

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Naveen Km. Jain
IN
Dec 28, 2012 2:52 am EST
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Dear Sir,

we requested to you that ago some days we created a yahoo account mail of parsvnath_jain@yahoo.com but whenever we are sending mail so no one mail are sending error known as message could not be send try again. so having this troubling we are unable to do our work, so please short out our yahoo account problem ASAP...

Thanking You...

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alaba71
NG
Jan 17, 2013 10:38 am EST
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I have been having problem logging in to my yahoomail account 'alaba_adeleke23@yahoo.com for some days now asking me where i met my spouse which i have forgotten because its been a while i registered the account..i will be very grateful if the issue can be addressed asap...thanks

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SanthoshDinesh
IN
Feb 03, 2013 3:45 am EST
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To
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From
Santhsh D B
Subject “ Regarding the verification details about this message any fake message as came”

Respected sir
I am from the Karnataka state that I need the details about the address attached below
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ATTACHED E-MAIL ID ADRESS BELOW FOR DETAILS IT IS TRUE OR FAKE ADRESS
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E-MAIL:Mr.santhoshsanthosh@yahoo.in
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This is the above E-mail: ID did I got any SCAM mail for the above e-mail ID and also send the details about how to check the fake check for the e-mail ID and also the send me the details about this above e-mail ID their any promotions as came to this e-mail ID of the above which I have to verify and how to verify.

This is the message I am sending to the consumer complant board the further requriment send the details to further communication.

Thanking You
SanthoshDB Place : Bangalore. Date : 03/02/2013

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SanthoshDinesh
IN
Feb 03, 2013 3:50 am EST
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To
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From
Santhsh D B
Subject “ Regarding the verification details about this message any fake message as came”

Respected sir
I am from the Karnataka state that I need the details about the address attached below
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ATTACHED E-MAIL ID ADRESS BELOW FOR DETAILS IT IS TRUE OR FAKE ADRESS
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E-MAIL:Mr.santhoshsanthosh@yahoo.in
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This is the above E-mail: ID did I got any SCAM mail for the above e-mail ID and also send the details about how to check the fake check for the e-mail ID and also the send me the details about this above e-mail ID their any promotions as came to this e-mail ID of the above which I have to verify and how to verify.

This is the message I am sending to the consumer complant board the further requriment send the details to further communication.

Thanking You
SanthoshDB Place : Bangalore. Date : 03/02/2013

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veejaikumaar
IN
Mar 31, 2013 1:17 am EDT
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i cant access my yahoo account past 3 weeks, i have an important document inside, i cant open, it is very big problem for me, very very bad service, pls help me to access my yahoo account, my contact no is [protected], send me the details of alternative mail is vjkumar_in@rediffmail.com,

my yahoo account cant access is veejaikumaar@yahoo.com
password [protected]

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shahnaz poursaied
Winston-Salem, US
Apr 08, 2013 8:33 pm EDT
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i had yahoo acount : spoursaied@yahoo.co.uk that i closed it more than a year ago in 2011. since there was another problem of abuse by yahoo.cm last year( i opened acount : mnest@yahoo.com, i knew my password but still never yahoo allowed me to get to my acount, but in my surprise when i applied for a job in nashville, tn, and ofcourse gave my current email adress:goldcifran@aol.com, and again i knew my password, but when i tried to get to the web page to see my job statuse, it did not let me in, as option it asked me about my favrioute artist: which ofcourse thives had stolen it on internet and when i naswered correct, it saied: your password send to ur email adress in: mnest@yahoo.com-because to start with i never got acess to this email adress myself, i got very upset, wrote a police report, but as what is going on with my id theaft :police was with thives. now today i went to youtube to check if my info, and then thought of checking all my old acount that i had closed. i had closed acount pinkazalia@gmail.com, but this acount was still open and it's connection is my yahoo acount, although i could acess to pinkazalia@gmail.com and did not find any suspeciouse email there. then i went to the main culprit web site: yahoo again. now i had colsed this acount as i explined more than a year ago in 2011, but i still have my username and id, when i enter my user name:spoursaied@yahoo.co.uk and password, it says wrong password, i tried same thing, security question: and guess what ? theaf security question is : what is your child nick name? well i do not have any child to start with, then where will be a nick name? and last time culprit has updated the information : was feb 2012, may i know what id theaft is going on that every one help thife? i have no privecy, get panick attack every day, who is using my name?

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santhoshcoco db
IN
Jul 07, 2013 2:07 am EDT
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My email ID is not opening because the contact mobile phone number the secret number and question is not entered the secret question and mobile number.

My email ID is :------ complantmail@yahoo.in

send me the details for the above email ID that i cannot open the email ID and with my pass word and how could be i can get the current email ID because important document and files or their in the Email ID send me the details what to do.

Thanking you
Santhosh D b

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BERT CRUMPTON
Sacramento, US
Jul 29, 2013 2:26 pm EDT
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There was a charge on my card i didn't know nothing about..please put the money back on my card...107.64 thank you so what i need for you to do is fax the inform to my credit card company to put the money on my visa card...this is the fax number to my credit card company...[protected] ref#[protected] my master card [protected] is off u can't put the money on that card... the travel ID#[protected]

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Allonna
Bradenton, US
Aug 19, 2013 10:32 am EDT
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I am happy this service is available! Thank you. I have the same email! Why are they allows this type of scam without proceution, for fraud?

From: "Yahoo!., Microsoft Corp."
To:
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 12:58 AM
Subject: E-mail Winning Notification!

YAHOO & MSN WINDOW LIVE AWARD PROMOTION CENTER
Promotions/ Prize Award Department South Africa.

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won prize money of Eight Hundred And Twenty Thousand United State Dollars, ($820, 000.00) for the 2013 Lucky email Promotion, which was organized by YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE AWARDS.

Yahoo/Msn collects all email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other E-mail Providers. Five people are selected this month to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the lucky Selected Winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE PRIZE AWARD must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below are your identification numbers:

BATCH NUMBER:MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: [protected]
WINNING NUMBER: 14, 21, 30, 34, 47, 71
PIN:1206

These numbers fall within the Africa Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him:

SCAM, SCAM, SCAM, DO NOT TRUST THESE PEOPLE!
Agent Name: Mr. Richard Dickson
E-mail: dicksonrichard47@yahoo.co.za
E-mail: dicksonrichard47@hotmail.co.za
Tel: [protected]

You are advised to send the following informations to your agent to facilitate the release of your winning fund to you.

1. Full Names:…………………………………..
2. Country:…………………………………..…..
3. Contact Address:………………………..….
4. Telephone Number:……………………..….
5. Fax Number:……………………...………….
6. Marital Status:……………………………….
7. Occupation:………………………………….
8. Date of birth:…………………………………
9. Sex:……...……………………………………

Yours Truly

Mrs. Rita Johannes
Online Coordinator
Yahoo-Msn Award

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Jewel Walker2
US
Sep 18, 2013 4:49 pm EDT
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Hello,
I just received this e-mail. Its a shame people don't have a life. What if I was stupid enough to provide this information.

YAHOO & MSN WINDOW LIVE AWARD PROMOTION CENTER

Promotions/ Prize Award Department South Africa.

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won prize money of Eight Hundred And Twenty Thousand United State Dollars, ($820, 000.00) for the 2013 Year Ending Lucky email Promotion, which was organized by YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE AWARDS.

Yahoo/Msn collects all email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other E-mail Providers. Five people are selected this month to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the lucky Selected Winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE PRIZE AWARD must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below are your identification numbers:

BATCH NUMBER:MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: [protected]

WINNING NUMBER: 14, 21, 30, 34, 47, 71

PIN:1206

These numbers fall within the Africa Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him:

Agent Name: Mr. Richard Dickson

E-mail: richarddicksn@yahoo.co.za

E-mail: richarddcksn@hotmail.co.za

Tel: +[protected]

You are advised to send the following informations to your agent to facilitate the release of your winning fund to you.

1. Full Names:…………………………………..

2. Country:…………………………………..…..

3. Contact Address:………………………..….

4. Telephone Number:……………………..….

5. Mobile Number:……………………...………

6. Marital Status:……………………………….

7. Occupation:………………………………….

8. Date of birth:…………………………………

9. Sex:……...…………………………………….

Congratulation's

Yours Truly

Mrs. Linda Naidoo

Online Coordinator

Yahoo-MSN Award

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ajayzchaos
Kiln, US
Sep 23, 2013 9:54 am EDT
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I wrote off the fact that no matter what computer I'm using it now takes Yahoo three (3) minutes to download all the ads before you can use the service. I've gotten past the fact that if I'm trying to read conversational e-mails I have to read backwards from the bottom of my incoming list. (Who's Oh so brilliant idea was it to ensure you can no longer read your mail from newest DOWN?)=A0 But, last night enraged me to the point that I am about to delete both my personal and business accounts which I've had since Yahoo started. I signed in to my business account and three minutes into checking my e-mail it popped up saying I had to sign in again, and again three minutes later and three minutes later and three minutes later and...Get the point? Then I tried my personal account, same thing, except when the prompt came up it had my BUSINESS account name in the user name field. An account I had signed out of was still popping up as active. I signed on this morning hoping that things had improved. Oh, they have, if you consider being prompted four (4) times in sixty (60) seconds to sign in again for my own safety is an improvement. NO ONE NEEDS THAT MUCH SAFETY TO CHECK THEIR BLEEDING E MAIL. BTW, this missive took me over ten minutes to write because it interrupted me ten (10) times to PLEASE SIGN IN AGAIN FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION.

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nikalseyn
Alpena, US
Sep 23, 2013 4:05 pm EDT

I use Yahoo email and it works just fine. They like to change things every so often, but I would suggest you use Firefox as your browser and get a couple of add-ons like disconnect me, do not track me and adblock. I never get ads from Yahoo mail. Never. I think you need to go into your settings while in yahoo email and decline to receive ads or something like that in the privacy or security area. And, as stated in the comments, you can set up how your received email is read, etc. Again, in the settings area.

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Bernard Lim
MY
Oct 24, 2013 1:24 pm EDT
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Evlyn Smarth
To Me
Oct 24 at 2:57 AM
To the kind attention of: Mr. Lim Hock Lye
No: 36, Jalan Sungai Merbau 32/89 Kemuning Greenville
Selangor Malaysia

Re: Award Confirmation & payment of £ 2, 500, 000, 00 M only.

Sir,

This memo is intended to update and congratulate you on your Lottery International winning confirmed on 3rd category thus; Reference number: [protected] Batch number: MFI/06/ASA – 778658 lucky drew Pin and security number 1291 on value winning £ 2, 500, 000, 00 only.

In light of the above, we have also succeeded to apply to the International Lotto Commission Board and obtained the necessary document's approval which has been forwarded to the Finance Ministry and the paying bank with payment references to release your wining funds accordingly.

Kindly find attached below copy of your winning certificate for your perusal and we advice you contact Banco Santander Madri Spain Attention: Dr. Thomas Goodman on Telephone number + [protected] quoting your details on first paragraph for payment via certified Bank Cheque/Bank Draft.

We thank you for the great opportunity afforded us to serve you as we therefore undertake to do our representations to your company creditably while we expect further recommendations.

Sincerely,

MRS. EVLYN SMARTH (Manager/Attorney)
Overseas Claims / Exchange Online Payment Unit
London - UK

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RIFAT
FR
Jan 28, 2014 2:55 pm EST

HI I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL
I DONT KNOW ITS A SCAM OR WHAT PLES HELP ME ABOUT THIS EMAIL
Dear Winner,
This is to inform you that you have won prize money of Eight Hundred And Twenty Thousand United State Dollars,
($820, 000.00) for the 2013 Lucky email Promotion, which was organized by YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE AWARDS.
Yahoo/Msn collects all email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and
Hotmail and few from other E-mail Providers. Five people are selected this month to benefit from this promotion and you are
one of the lucky Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE PRIZE AWARD must be
claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
Stated below are your identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: [protected]
WINNING NUMBER: 14, 21, 30, 34, 47, 71
PIN: 1206
These numbers fall within the Africa Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa and send
your winning identification numbers to him:
Agent Name: Mr. Richard Dickson
E-mail: richarddickson1968@yahoo.co.za
E-mail: richarddickson1968@yahoo.co.za
Tel: [protected]
You are advised to send the following information’s to your agent to facilitate the release of your winning fund to you.
1. Full Names:…………………………………..
2. Country:…………………………………..…..
3. Contact Address:………………………..….
4. Telephone Number:……………………..….
5. Fax Number:……………………...………….
6. Marital Status:……………………………….
7. Occupation:………………………………….
8. Date of birth:…………………………………
9. Sex:……...…………………………………….
Mrs. Linda

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ALFONSINA RAMIREZ PAULIN
MX
Jun 30, 2014 1:20 pm EDT
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Category of complaint is services.
When i changed to your suggested beautiful backgrounds, my whole mail service alters: disappeard 350 contacts (I've recored about 170) , the emails i send are not kept: the last one is from august 2013!
Some of my contacts do not receive my messages: when i phone some of them, that's their complaint too. And ssome times the "resume" works and others, don't.
I have been yahoo faithfull client for more than 8 years and i do not want to go elsewher so please, help me! I know you cant do it! Warm greetings. Alf

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bmman
ES
Sep 17, 2014 11:57 am EDT
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vosotro eres muy listo pero yo mas ATTENTION,
Following the instruction received from The Headquarters of the YAHOO! IN & MSN
MICROSOFT LIVE AWARD. Under the umbrella of the United Kingdom Government in respect
with your winning prize fund valued at $820, 000.00 USD (Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand
United State Dollars only), which you were entered as an independent candidate.
Your winning fund of $820, 000.00 USD (Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand United State
Dollars only), shall be sent to you on the Approval of your payment. On our part, we have a
mandate to see you through. We will work assiduously to realize this mandate as we respect
your views, opinions and most importantly protect your Privacy.
Be informed that this department has forwarded an application to seek a foreign payment
Acceptance / Clearance from our authorized paying bank, popularly known as The Standard
Bank of South Africa. This is in accordance to the foreign exchange regulation act 1973 /
foreign exchange management act 1999 of the Standard Bank of South Africa which
governs trade and foreign exchange. It is our duty to ensure that your fund release Legal
Formalities are observed and completed on your behalf.
Furthermore, we hereby give you the details of our authorized payment centre in South Africa.
Your file has already been passed on to them for remittance process.
Please do contact them as soon as you receive this email. We are hoping on our mutual
understanding with you and trusting that you will comply accordingly in order to receive your
funds.
Find below details of The Standard Bank of South Africa. The contact person in charge of your
payment file is Mr Fred Phaswana. And their office details are as below:
FOREIGN PAYMENT COLLECTION CENTRE
Standard Bank South Africa
9th Floor Standard Bank Centre
5 Simmonds Street, Johannesburg 2001
P O Box 7725, Johannesburg 2000
E-mail: info@standardbankersa.com
contact@standardbankersa.com
Mobile No: +[protected]
Direct Tel: +[protected]
Office Hours: [protected] HRS
Contact Person: Fred Phaswana.
The following Reference/PIN # (Pers

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bmman
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Sep 17, 2014 12:00 pm EDT
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la verdad no me confian los ello

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bmman
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Sep 17, 2014 12:11 pm EDT
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es un falso de verdad porque el numero que y ma a mi igual de lo que estas comentado aqui se que teneis cabeza pero si quereis tener una sentavo a mi bolsillo teneis que trabajar mas que esto YAHOO & MSN WINDOW LIVE AWARD PROMOTION CENTER
Promotions/ Prize Award Department South Africa.
Dear Winner,
This is to inform you that you have won prize money of Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand
United State Dollars, ($820, 000.00) on our ongoing Monthly 2014 prize promotion, which was
organized by YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE AND MICROSOFT AWARDS.
Yahoo/Msn collects all email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions
that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other E-mail Providers. Five people are
selected this month to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the lucky Selected Winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS
LIVE PRIZE AWARD must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any
Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
Stated below are your identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER: [protected]
WINNING NUMBER: 14, 21, 30, 34, 47, 71
PIN: 1206
These numbers fall within the Africa Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary
agent in South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him:
Agent Name: Mr. Richardson Howard
Address: 2nd Floor SABC Universal Building Auckland Park, South Africa.
PLEASE CONTACT HIM THROUGH THIS EMAIL, ADDRESSES:
E-mail: mr.richardsonhoward@hotmail.com
E-mail: mr.richardsonhoward1@yahoo.co.za
Phone: [protected]
You are advised to send the following information’s to your agent to facilitate the release of your
winning fund to you.
1. Full Names:…………………………………..
2. Country:…………………………………..…..
3. Contact Address:………………………..….
4. Telephone Number:……………………..….
5. Fax Number:……………………...………….
6. Marital Status:……………………………….
7. Occupation:………………………………….
8. Date of birth:…………………………………
9. Sex:……...……………………………………. Mrs. Jacques Damour
Lottery coordinator
Yahoo! Inc & Msn Corp Board
…………………………………………………………………………………………

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bmman
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Sep 17, 2014 1:00 pm EDT
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No sé nada de estos lotería Qué se ha enviado esta información a mi correo electrónico que he ganado nada, pero te damos gracias por esta buena noticia

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Alexander Chernienko
RU
Oct 09, 2014 10:40 am EDT
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Hi!
I received it today:

This is to inform you that you have email grant money of Eight hundred thousand USD for this month of 2014 sweepstakes which is organized by OUTLOOK, MSN & WINDOWS 8 LIVE INC. The MICROSOFT WINDOWS collects all the addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, Gmail we only select five people as our winners through electronic balloting System without the recipient applying, we salute you for being one of the people selected.
NOTE: FOR CLAIMS OF GRANT YOU MUST CONTACT THE EMAIL BELOW WITH YOUR INFORMATION TO OPEN YOUR CLAIMS FILE.
Contact Email: (octwinerliveinc@qq.com)
1. FULL NAMES: 2. HOUSE ADDRESS:
3. OCCUPATION: 4. SEX: 5. AGE:
6. DIRECT PHONE NO: 7. STATE: 8. COUNTRY:
Thank you and accept my hearty congratulations once again!
SEND YOUR DETAILS ONLY TO CONTACT EMAIL ONLY: OCTWINERLIVEINC@QQ.COM

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spam investigator
CA
Oct 09, 2014 7:30 pm EDT
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There is no such organization as the cyber bureau. He is a lowlife African advance fee ### trying to steal your money and identity.

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pennella
Auburn, US
Jan 14, 2015 9:58 am EST
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I sent my address and phone# and dob.how much trouble am I in?

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Long_Nick
PH
Apr 07, 2015 8:22 pm EDT

yeah me too :(

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Long_Nick
PH
Apr 07, 2015 8:28 pm EDT

This was the followup form and details, after I've send my Information (its just my personal info. not the bank information).

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darren001
stakeford, choppington, GB
Apr 21, 2015 3:37 pm EDT

I just got an email saying i won 920, 000. I am even richer than the rest of the winners (lol). Hope it will cover the unauthorised overdraft for the bank i don't even use anymore

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dhakal
BE
May 12, 2015 9:02 am EDT
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I just got an email saying i won 8200000 USD, here is the detail

YAHOO! & MSN WINDOW LIVE AWARD PROMOTION CENTER Promotions/ Prize Award Department South Africa.

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won prize money of Eight Hundred and Twenty Thousand United State Dollars, ($820, 000.00) on our ongoing Monthly 2015 prize promotion, which was organized by YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE AND MICROSOFT AWARDS.

Yahoo/Msn collects all email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other E-mail Providers. Five people are selected this month to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the lucky Selected Winners.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

Winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre. YAHOO & MSN WINDOWS LIVE PRIZE AWARD must be claimed no later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any

Prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below are your identification numbers:

BATCH NUMBER: MFI/06/APA-43658

REFERENCE NUMBER: [protected]

WINNING NUMBER: 14, 21, 30, 34, 47, 71 PIN: 1206

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These numbers fall within the Africa Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him:

Agent Name: Mr. Howard Richardson

Address: 2nd Floor SABC Universal Building Auckland Park, South Africa. PLEASE CONTACT HIM THROUGH THIS EMAIL, ADDRESSES:

E-mail: richardson.howard101@yahoo.co.za

E-mail: richardson.howard101@hotmail.com

Phone: +[protected]

You are advised to send the following information’s to your agent to facilitate the release of your winning fund to you.

1.Full Names:…………………………………..

2.Country:…………………………………..…..

3.Contact Address:………………………..….

4.ShapeTelephone Number:……………………..….

5.Fax Number:……………………...………….

6.Marital Status:……………………………….

7.Occupation:………………………………….

8.Date of birth:…………………………………

9.Sex:……...…………………………………….

Mrs. Sandra Brown

Lottery coordinator

Yahoo! Inc & Msn Corp Board

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WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

Do not tell people about your Prize Award until your money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise from double claim.

You may also receive similar e-mails from people portraying to be other Organizations or Yahoo Inc. This is solely to collect your personal information from you and lay claim over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the notification letter that was sent to you, kindly delete it from your mail box and give no further correspondence to such person or body.

Yahoo shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned.

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UzumakiT
AU
Aug 18, 2015 11:27 pm EDT
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My mother was stupid enough to fall for it.

I agree, why have Yahoo and Microsoft not done a blog about it ?! So far it's all individuals around the world posting about it and has been doing so since 2012 yet not a single post from Yahoo itself or Microsoft itself to advise it is a scam! Why else would people fall for it ? Our words mean nothing unless it comes from a reliable source. Yahoo and Microsoft better handle that s**t'n

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ogunsola oludayo samuel
NG
Oct 16, 2015 3:28 am EDT
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please i received this information, last week but i don't know if it is true though i have send my bank detail to the mail, as in my name, sort code, swift code and my account number but later i began to doubt then i make a research of the claim that brought me to this portal, please kindly help me my email is oludayo37@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks

Division of Yahoo/Windows Live Internet Award

View one of our last year lucky winners.

Windows Live Msn™.

AUTHORISED BY YAHOO MAIL INC.
CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF OUR TOP FOUR LUCKY WINNERS.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Yahoo / Windows Live
125 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8AD, London- United Kingdom.

All the executive members of Yahoo/Windows Live Management Team wishes to inform you that you have won a prize money of Seven Hundred, Twenty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (£720, 000, 00.) for 2015 Prize promotion which was organized by YAHOO MANAGEMENT TEAM & WINDOWS LIVE today Thursday, 8th October 2015 to celebrate our 20 years anniversary since we become the best free e-mail provider worldwide.

YAHOO/ Windows Live collects all the email addresses of people that are active online, among over 1 billion-plus global users that subscribed to Yahoo, Google mail, Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Four e-mail addresses were selected annually to benefit from this prize promotion and your e-mail address has been selected today THURSDAY 8TH OCTOBER 2015 via Computer Random Selection System as one of the top four lucky Winners for 2015 prize promotion.

All winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement center. Yahoo/ Windows Live Prize Award must be claimed not later than 60 days from today 8th October 2015. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below are your identification numbers:

File NO: X/NY/M/DV/UKQWQ-544ES2
REFERENCE NO: YFGS7-XC2015-5843
PIN: ...

These identification numbers fall within UK Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Manchester UK, Dr Johnson F David through his below contact details and submit your File & Reference numbers to him; Note your Pin NO will be sent to you by Dr Johnson F David once you open contact with him for some security reasons.

Agent Name: Dr Johnson F David

E-mail: drjohnsonfd67@outlook.com
E-mail: drjohnsonfd67@yahoo.com
Office Tel: +[protected]

You are advised to send the below information to your Claims Agent Dr Johnson F David through his e-mail to facilitate the release of your award-winning prize to you immediately.

1. Your File & Reference No
2. Nationality/ Country of Residence
3. Contact Address
4. Telephone Number
5. Occupation
6. Age

Congratulations!
Yours in service,

David Filo & Jerry Yang
Co-founders and Chief Yahoo.
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WARNING!
Keep your winning information confidential until your award prize are successfully transferred or handed over to you to avoid disqualification that may arise due to double claiming.
You may also receive similar e-mails from people portraying to be Yahoo Inc or Windows Live Msn. This is solely to collect your personal information and lay fake claims over your winning. In event that you receive any e-mail similar to the award notification letter that was sent to you today, kindly delete it from your mailbox and give no further correspondence to such person or body.

Yahoo/ Windows shall not be held responsible for any loss of fund arising from the above mentioned and any winning notification that was not from David Filo & Jerry Yang (Co-founders and Chief Yahoo)and sign by Yahoo and Google mail Board of Directors will be cancelled.

Signed By: Yahoo and Windows Live Board of Directors:
Kathy Savitt (Chief Marketing Officer), Marissa Mayer (Chief Executive Officer, President & Director), Jerry Yang(Co-founder and Chief Yahoo), Ken Goldman (Chief Financial Officer) and Other members.

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Tony-Genie Arreola
US
Jan 29, 2016 10:30 am EST

This morning i received this email i won 820, 000.00

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