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I subscribed to Yahoo Personals because I got an email from this guy, Michael Amre. We corresponded (IM, email, phone) and then he said he would visit me in Manila. He then asked me for "assistance" to come up with $4, 000 to cover his expenses (tickets, etc). He said he's pay me back upon his arrival in Manila, cause he would have to wait for his pay check. He asked me to transfer the funds to him via Western Union. I actually had my credit card out already, when i checked his flight details, it did not show any stop over. I travel, so I know that there's no direct flight from London to Manila. So, alarm bells started to ring. I then emailed him to check which airline he booked with. He, of course, could not answer me. I then told him NOT TO SCAM ME. I reported it to Yahoo Personals this morning (Mla time) and yet, up to now (its already afternoon for me), they have not provided me with a feedback. I dont know what else to do. I just want to make sure others are not subjected to this. Cause if I were not a seasoned traveller, I would have kissed my $4, 000 goodbye. Please help. Thanks

My. Email.. Jasmeen. [protected]@yahoo.com;-yahoo lottry company is and frode mr barrister amien muossah is very frode man he sand a mail in my e id he say mr you won a lootry some of 2.50 millon usd and he say me you give me 2, 738 usd curier charge than I pay your own payment
Dear complan board pleas halp me I am ready... Lottry-letter see this to inform you that your email has won a consultation prize of
Dear our lucky winner I reciverd your bank acount, your won money cheque is ready to transfer to your acount, plz you will send bank transfer tax charges money
B4 your won money cheque will transfer, you will send 2, 738 usa dollars thruogh our payment information, as soon as you send the bank transfer tax charges money your won money cheque 250, 000, 000 usa dollars will transfer into your bank acount, you have to paid the transfer tax charges money fist b4 bank here indonesia will transfer your lucky won money cheque, again plz do not west time go to western union money transfer and send the bank transfer tax charges money 2, 738 usa dollars must be paid b4 bank will transfer your won money cheque, no reduct from your won money cheque, your won money cheque is international cheque sign from our head office holland, no reduct, go immidiately and send the bank transfer tax charges money, any delay from now your won money cheque will cancel, so urgent send the bank transfer tax charges money thruogh this name bellow... To begin your claims, kindly contact the fiduciary agent for your prize barrister: amien muossah.
Email: [protected]@hotmail.com mobile:+62-[protected]

We are pleased to inform you that you have won the amount of 485000.00 pounds sterling from YAHOO! GOOGLE Awards programmer.

YAHOO! collects all email addresses of people who are active on the Internet, among millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hot Mail and several other e-mail services. Six people are selected each month to enjoy this action, and you're one of the individual winners.

The payment of premiums and claims

The winners will be paid in accordance with his / her payment Center. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed no later than 15 days from the date of notification Draw. Any prize not claimed within this period will be revoked.
Below your identification numbers:
Batch number: YPA/07-43658
Code: [protected]
PIN: 1206

You are hereby advice to get back to us, contact your claims Agent REV DAVIDS HUDSON
for your claim.

Contact: REV DAVIDS HUDSON
Email: [protected]@live.com

CLAIMS REQUIREMENTS
Full name:
COUNTRY:
Home address:
Mobile:
HOME NUMBER:
Age:
Sex:
AL Status:
0D Position:

Best regards,
Ms.. Carol Jones
Through the Coordinator for
YAHOO AWARDS GOOGLE AND programmer,
International Lottery Program.
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ATTENTION! Do not tell people about your prize until your money successfully transferred you to avoid disqualification that may arise in connection with the dual claim.

You can also get a similar e-mail from people portraying to other organizations or Yahoo Inc. This is only collect your personal information from you and claim the victory. If you receive any e-mail similar to the notification that the letter was sent to you, please delete it from your mailbox, and no further correspondence to provide such person or body.

YAHOO! shall not be liable for any loss arising from the above.

**Just another of those scams, only a stupid person will fall for that!

Dear Sir,
I find myself in a kafkian situation:
I had a contract with yahoo small business for the domain www.lezioniditedesco.com, contract that was due to terminate on next 4th of april.
On last february 23rd I opened a new contract with godaddy for the same domain name.
On day 8th of march I cancelled from yahoo.
My present situation, as referred to in yahoo, is:
Registrant: Giulio De Florio
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: LEZIONIDITEDESCO.COM
Domain servers in listed order:
YNS2.YAHOO.COM
YNS1.YAHOO.COM
The conclusion is that now:
I cannot make use anymore of my domain name
yahoo does not allow me to enter in the panel
GoDaddy tells me that the problem is in yahoo.
I am afraid that there is not much transparency in this field and that someone is taking advantage of the good faith of the people and of the obvious language difficulties for a not english person.
I look forward to a reply.
Giulio De Florio

Most people in Benin City, Nigeria received mail in February purported to be from Yahoo.com complaining of congestions by yahoo, and wanted all yahoo account users to confirm their account within two weeks to avoid their mail being delsited from the yanoo mail list.They ask for the usual name, birth date, ID, password.

I filled it and submitted as requested. The next day i could not access my mail box. The next thing was that they were using my mail account to write to all the mail list on my account demandong for N95, 000 to save my cousin that is purpotedly sick in a private hospital, and that i am attending a seminar in South Africa and that i will pay when i come back. And the doctor in the private hospital wouls send an account the person will remit the money.
I knew this when my daughter received a similar mail from the crooks the next day. I have not been able to open my mail box because they have changed the password.
But there is something of note. I first made a mistake in my password when i was filling the form, and my password was rejected. Does that mean that my password can be accessed at all by yahoo?. if so, then ther must be insider dealing in yahoo.

Hi,
I just need to complaint that someone else is also using my yahoo ID. I changed my password few times but it doesn't helped. Someone got access to my Yahoo ID and changed my all details in security section so that i can't open it... How it can be possible... i have too many important e-mails in my account but now i am totally helpless as someone changed all my details and i can' open my account... Please take necessary action ASAP as it is very important to me...

Thanks

Hi,
my self mohammed imran khan I am getting fake e-mails

This is my first mail

The msn/yahoo lottery incorporation
Po box 1010, liverpool
L70 1nl, united kingdom.

Ref: xyl /[protected]/05
Batch: 24/00319/ipd

Dear winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of seven hundred and
Fifty thousand great britain pound starlings (£750, 000.00) for the month of
January 2009. the lottery promotion which is organized by yahoo/msn lottery
Enclive. we congratulate you for being one of the five person selected. you
Are to contact the events manager for claims; these are your identification
Numbers:

Batch number: 24/00319/ipd ref:number:xyl /[protected]/05 do contact the
Claim officer with your refrence numbers and contact details in full.

(contact event manager)

Name: mr carpenter park

E-mail:[protected]@hotmail.co. uk

Once again congratulations...

(msn/yahoo lottery games/lottery)

This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk

This is my second mail

the msn/yahoo lottery incorporationpo box 1010, liverpool
L70 1nl, united kingdom.
Ref: xyl /[protected]/05
Batch: 24/00319/ipd

Attn winner : mohammed imran khan

Congratulation from members and staff of msn yahoo lottery incorporation. we are in receipt of your mail, and you should count your self extremely lucky to have emerge as one of our winners in this year lucky dip sweepstake, as you already know your email address was randomly selected along with others from over 200, 000 website on the internet, of which your email address was attached to a batch number 24/00319/ipd and your ref number :[protected]/05. it was selected along with other winners not that you played, it was played with your email. I have verified your winning and it’s exactly with our database record. you have therefore been approved to claim the total sum of £750, 000 (seven hundred and fifty thousand, great britain pounds sterling) credited to your winning number: ym/09788/60. your winning has been documented in our record and we believe that your winning will be put into good use.

On behalf of the screening committee of the msn/yahoo lottery incorporation, I wish to announce to you that you have successfully passed the email screening and verification matching test conducted for all online winners of your category held today at the headquarters of the msn/yahoo lottery incorporation. hence you are therefore cleared and can now claim your winnings. however your winnings have been forwarded to the payment department for disbursement. therefore you are to contact the payment office immediately from now with your complete details and also give them a call so that they will process your payment immediately.

Fill the form below and submit to the payment officer for the processing of your winning amount.

Payment office contact:

Mr. allen carter

Tel: +[protected]

Email: [protected]@yahoo.co. uk

1) full name

2) country and state

3) home address

4) contact number / mobile number

5) occupation

5) any scan identity card).

Once again congratulations

Mr. carpenter park

Tel: +[protected]

Keep this private and confidential until you receive your prize money. note :that nobody or even the appointed payment officer has no right to touch, deduct/cut or get access to your prize money for any reason they have been warned strictly because your winning amount is secured and covered with insurance policy. be free to make an official report if your winning money is not complete when you recieved it — share your photos with windows live photos – free try it now!

This is my third mail

the msn/yahoo lottery incorporationpo box 1010, liverpool
L70 1nl, united kingdom.=
Ref: xyl /[protected]/05
Batch: 24/00319/ipd

Attn: winner: mohammed imran khan

Congratulations from members and staff of msn payment department. I am in receipt of your mail and I must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this year lucky dip sweepstakes.

Your winning will be processed and dispatched to your country today if we can still find a flight for the delivery officer to arraive tomorrow morning, but if we can find any flight tonight we shall despatch your winning tomorrow afternoon. the delivery officer will contact you at his arrival in the international airport in your country. he will be assisting you in processing your winning amount so it can be deposited in your bank account, as the winner of the amount 750.000.00 pounds in your parcel, you will be paying the airport clearances fees, the sum of (25, 000, 00 inr) twenty five thousand rupees through the delivery officer to enable the officer get your parcel containing your winning cleared from the airport before he can deliver to you.

Your winning amount is secured and cannot be deducted from until it is handed over to you, this is for your good and the security of the parcel, the said amount for clearance will be paid by you. and if nothing is done to get it cleared it will be sent back to this office that means you have to come over to london for the claim.

Note:the payment has to be paid by you before your parcel can be released from the airport and delivered to you.

Do contact us when you have received your winning

Once again congratulation

Regards,
Mr. allen carter

Tel: +[protected]

This is my fourth mail

the msn/yahoo lottery incorporationpo box 1010, liverpool
L70 1nl, united kingdom.=
Ref: xyl /[protected]/05
Batch: 24/00319/ipd

Attn: winner: mohammed imran khan

Congratulations from members and staff of msn payment department. I am in receipt of your mail and I must say that you should count yourself extremely lucky to have emerged as one of our winners in this year lucky dip sweepstakes.

Your winning will be processed and dispatched to your country today if we can still find a flight for the delivery officer to arraive tomorrow morning, but if we can find any flight tonight we shall despatch your winning tomorrow afternoon. the delivery officer will contact you at his arrival in the international airport in your country. he will be assisting you in processing your winning amount so it can be deposited in your bank account, as the winner of the amount 750.000.00 pounds in your parcel, you will be paying the airport clearances fees, the sum of (25, 000, 00 inr) twenty five thousand rupees through the delivery officer to enable the officer get your parcel containing your winning cleared from the airport before he can deliver to you.

Your winning amount is secured and cannot be deducted from until it is handed over to you, this is for your good and the security of the parcel, the said amount for clearance will be paid by you. and if nothing is done to get it cleared it will be sent back to this office that means you have to come over to london for the claim.

Note:the payment has to be paid by you before your parcel can be released from the airport and delivered to you.

Do contact us when you have received your winning

Once again congratulation

Regards,
Mr. allen carter

Tel: +[protected]

This is fifth mail

The msn/yahoo lottery incorporation
Po box 1010, liverpool
L70 1nl, united kingdom.
=

Ref: xyl /[protected]/05
Batch: 24/00319/ipd

Dear winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of seven hundred and
Fifty thousand great britain pound starlings (£750, 000.00) for the month of
January 2009. the lottery promotion which is organized by yahoo/msn lottery
Enclive. we congratulate you for being one of the five person selected. you
Are to contact the events manager for claims; these are your identification
Numbers:

Batch number: 24/00319/ipd ref:number:xyl /[protected]/05 do contact the
Claim officer with your refrence numbers and contact details in full.

(contact event manager)

Name: mr carpenter park

E-mail:[protected]@hotmail.co. uk

Once again congratulations...

(msn/yahoo lottery games/lottery) — this mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk

Iam getting the calls from those guys contact numbers+[protected]/+[protected]/+[protected]

Respected Sir,
I was apply for pancard before four month ago. I get my pan no. by internet but I cannat receive my pancard till date. If you sended my pancard please check status & give me reply soon. my pancard no. is AYXPP2978B .
My mobile no. is +[protected]

Please to confirm if this letter is true or scam because it appear to my email add.

From rolly soriano

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of five hundred thousand us dollars ($500, 000.00) for the year 2009 lottery promotion which is organized by yahoo lottery inc
For the introductionof the new yahoo beta mail which all yahoo users are required to switch onto.
yahoo! & microsoft windows, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to yahoo and hot mail, and others we only select five (5) candidates 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 policy

Note: any information that is provided by winners must be correct as provision of wrong information by winners may lead to disqualification of a winner and you also have to keep your winning numbers/notification confidential, you don't have to tell any one about your winning until you have received your prize funds ($500, 000.00) as to avoid double claiming which can result to disqualification, be warned!

These are your identification numbers:

Batch number... ybm-ebs-390af
Ref number... ybm-ebs-110af
Winning number... ybm-ebs-798af

Please contact the claims agent below, via email for further instructions on what next to do to claim your winning funds.

Claims agent name: mr andrian raymond
Claims agent email: [protected]@rediff.com
You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate the processing of your prize funds.

Personal information

1. full name...
2. country...
3. contact address...
4. telephone number...
5. marital status...
6. occupation...
7. age...
8. sex...

Congratulations once again.
Yours in service,

We hope you're enjoying your yahoo! mail account.
Now take the next step and claim your money and say thanks to yahoo!.
You select how to transfer the prize money to you:
cheque delivery to your address
bank account transfer
diplomatic means

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Coporation,
United Kingdom, London.Swiw Orh, Wiw8bf.
38 Buckingham Palace Road London, Rfsbc-s1037.
Regional Office For Yahoo Lottery Claims,
Foreign Transfer Department.
Phone Number: +[protected]
Fax:+[protected].
Date 13-12-2008.

Dear Rohit Govindam,

Your urgent response has been acknowledged and understood; I hereby want to assure you that this fee (23, 000 rupees) is only required for all the formalities and the clearings of your fund since all the neccessary arrangement concerning your FUND TRANSFER has been done in advance.

So, due to how urgent it is to facilitate your fund transfer to your account in india, you are kindly instructed to make the required payment of (23, 000 rupees) to our Fiduciary's Account in India with this below information.

Account Name: Bharat Singh.
Account Number: [protected].
Bank Name: State Bank Of India.
Bank Branch: Gurgaon, India.
Pan Number: BVGPS7216A

You are also advised to send to us the scanned copy of the payment slip after the payment is made as to enable us attach it to your Fund Transfer Register (FTR). Make sure this payment is made first thing Monday morning as to enable us commence transferring your fund to your designated account in India without delay.

Regards,
Dr. Goerge W. Adams

Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Coporation,
United Kingdom, London.Swiw Orh, Wiw8bf.
38 Buckingham Palace Road London, Rfsbc-s1037.
Regional Office For Yahoo Lottery Claims,
Foreign Transfer Department.
Phone Number: +[protected]
Fax:+[protected].
Date 13-12-2008.

Dear Rohit Govindam,

Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Co-poration (HSBC) is in receipt of your beneficiary filled FORM, you are kindly advice to find the attached file and comply with the instruction given to you as to enable us commence the quick and immedate transfering of your fund to you into your account in INDIA without delay.

Thanks for your corporation and anticipation.

Reagrds,
Dr. George W. Adams.
HSBC Bank Fund Remittance/Transfer Manager.
+[protected].
Payment Number : (M30911).

Attention: Rohit Govindam,

The address attached to this mail is the contact of Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Corperation (HSBC) in United Kingdom (London). This means that you have been officially cleared for payment by the Verifications Department at the headquarters of the Yahoo International Lottery. The original copy of your winner certificate together with a covering document (Money Laundering protection and Letter of Affidavit for Claims) from the Yahoo International Lottery Programmed Board stating that the money was obtained legally through their International Lotto will be sent to you as soon as you meet with the Bank requirments.

You can now begin the final step of the claims process which is the transferring of your cash prize to you into your nominated bank account. With regards to this, you are required to contact the HongKong & Shanghai Bank corperation (HSBC) with all your information including your complete banking details.

The said amount One Million Great British pounds (1.000, 000.00 pounds) will be wired/transferred to your nominated bank account in India. Note that your prize is protected by a hard-cover insurance policy, which makes it impossible to deduct any amount from the
money before it is remitted to you into your nominated bank account. Please respond to this mail alerting us that you have contacted the HongKong & Shanghai Bank corperation (HSBC) and keep us informed on events.

Good luck and Congratulations once again. Please send your response within the next 24hrs to HongKong & Shanghai Bank corperation (HSBC):

HongKong & Shanghai Bank corperation (HSBC).

Email: [protected]@yahoo.co.uk
[protected]@hsbc-bank.uk.tt
[protected]@hsbc-bank.uk.tt

Tel: +[protected].
Fax: +[protected].

Address: #38 Buckingham Palace Road London WIW8BF
Regional Head Office For Yahoo Lottery Claims.

Best regards,
Prof. Clifford Lewis.

Dear Lucky Winner,

Kindly download the attached file below herein for more information.

Yours sincerely
Dr. Martin Kevin.
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com

Yahoo! Games

You have won payout of ￡500, 000.00

Yahoo! Co-Operation
London
United Kingdom

We happily announce That the draw (#568) of Yahoo Online Lottery Raffle
Draw. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: [protected]-5319
which subsequently won you the Yahoo Financial Promotions cash Prize.
You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of
￡500, 000.00 (i.e Five Hundred
Thousand United Kingdom Pounds) in cash credited to file KTU/[protected]/03.

To file for your claim, please contact our
Claims Agent:Yahoo Claims Dept.
Email:[protected]@live.co.uk

VERIFICATION FORM.(Fill and send to the Claims agent).
1.FULL NAME:
2.FULL ADDRESS:
3.SEX:
4.AGE:
5.OCCUPATION:
6.TEL:
7.COUNTRY:

Congratulations from me and members of Yahoo Corporation

Mrs Tchina Hamoud
Yahoo Official

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http://www.alpikom.it

pogo games, I am having a problem playing games on pogo. forgot to mention I pay 5.99 a month for the the honor to play, iam a member of pogo. I put the games on and they take it off in about 5 minutes. what are you going to do about my problem. I would like to hear from you.

A few weeks ago, I got an email from Yahoo (which I used for hosting my business email, website, and blog). They told me I was violating their TOS (Terms of Service) but gave me no specifics whatsoever. After a bit of research, I found that my blog had been “hacked” by someone who inserted hundreds of links back to their “drug related” site among other things. Within 24 hours of receiving the email from Yahoo, I “cleaned up” the “hacked” blog – this took me about 3 hours of work to do. Then 24 hours later, without any warning, Yahoo DEACTIVATED my account. I lost all my business email, my website, my blog, my Yahoo groups that I was managing, etc. etc.

When I contacted Yahoo customer service, they said there was nothing they could do and that I would have to “email” the Yahoo Abuse team. (An interesting process, especially since they had just TERMINATED my EMAIL account!) Despite my efforts to contact Yahoo Corporate, Yahoo Abuse Department, etc. – I was NEVER able to reach ANYONE at Yahoo that was willing to even talk to me. All communication was via email.

The net result – Yahoo said they would not reactivate my account, and would not give me back any of my data files. They said I had violated their Terms of Service (TOS) and even though someone else “hacked” my blog, it was MY RESPONSIBILITY. And even though I immediately “cleaned” the hacked blog, they claimed there was still something wrong with the blog – but would not tell me ANY DETAILS as to specifically what was still wrong.

Also note that Yahoo provides its customers access to a version of WordPress for doing “blogs” – but the version they provide is very outdated, and the version they provide has significant security holes in it!

If I had been hosting my other business website on Yahoo I would have immediately been “out of business” and it would have cost me literally tens of thousands of dollars.

From a legal perspective, I see a possible violation by Yahoo of the Federal Trade Commission Act prohibiting unfair acts in trade and commerce in that Section 15 [Termination] of the Terms of Use is unfair to impute that unexpected technical or security issues or problems that I did not cause is a “Cause” for termination. In addition, there may also be a violation of the Yahoo Privacy Policy under its section on Confidentiality and Security. There could even be a possibility of a Sarbanes Oxley securities issue.

My questions to Yahoo which still has never been answered:
1. How did I violate the TOS?
2. What section did I violate?

If Yahoo fails to return valuable data to me, then I believe I can find sufficient legal bases to convince Yahoo to release the data to me – but at what cost? I can’t really afford to go up against their big corporate legal team!

I hope someone (hopefully you?) can publish my story to at least warn other small business owners to NEVER use Yahoo hosting services for their business. The risk is way too high!

What appalls me the most is that I have been a loyal small business customer of Yahoo for over FIVE YEARS! And this is how they treat a “good customer”? Seems like they’ve chosen to punish their good customers for the acts of unscrupulous hackers!

Is this the way Jerry Yang (Yahoo co-founder) is choosing to treat his customers? Perhaps he has more problems than just what the AllThingsDigital blog posted a few days ago:
“There are very real questions about whether Yang has the right talent and temperament for the job at hand … After all, the stock is in the basement, after Yahoo (YHOO) lost a lucrative bird in the hand in the form of a $31 per share offer from Microsoft (MSFT). Next, a weak economic environment is forcing it to cut deeply into the muscle of its many businesses, with slashing out 20 percent or more of costs, a worrisome trend if Yahoo hopes to grow when we all eventually emerge from the downturn. And, of course, more key executive departures, weak employee morale and an overall inability to clearly articulate the changes Yang has been trying to make at the company, such as its laudable open platform efforts.”

Maybe we should add “atrocious customer service” to the list of Jerry’s problems/issues?

Sir,
i am jatinder kumar from india and a student.
i don't know that was it right so send the money to first city monument bank, or not. But I have send more than 3000$ US to different given bank accounts. of which i have all the details.they send me some certificates like deposit amount and some other etc. now after taking this money they suggest me the whole money which i send them to trasfer the given amount of 500000 $ us through bank, then bank suggest me now to send 1855 $ more. which i was not able to send. So then they trasnfer this whole money to the bank named as world bank of africa
whose email address is ""[protected]@yahoo.com""
who also tell me to send the an amount of 1855$ to make the transfer.Now i have no money to send them. now they said that they will send whole money to charity if i don't send the money to them in this money to them.
if this is a fake then what i have to do?

please help me because the money that i have already send to then was borrowed amount.
so i have no way to something futhur more than waiting for help.
yours faithfull.
Jatinder Kumar

I received a letter from PCH stateing I was the third place winner of one million dollars and sent a check for $5, 340.00 and to call Richard Banks. I did and he told me to deposit it and call him back I did and he told me he will call me back. He never did. Extraco Bank held the check for five days. The bank said the check was returned and was charged to my account they change that because the City Financial and Firrst Mass. did not have account on file. Cathy Stewart CFO signed the letter.

Yahoo Music Unlimited closed its doors effective September 30, 2008.

My credit card was charged for 1 more year of subscription on October 4, 2008.

Explain that. Further refund 'may' take up to 10 business days, if at all.

They fraudulently stole from my account knowing full well they would not be providing service. Previous notifications mentioned no action needed on the part of consumers to use membership until September 30, 2008.