Hey! I won the Yahoo & Microsoft Lottery

[savanna3313]

Ok.....I guess the foreign dignitary from Africa looking to move millions, but needs your help and banking info, just doesn't work anymore. I received this email today. Gee.......should I claim it??




Hello Winner

Congratulations to you as we bring to your notice the
result of YAHOO & MICROSOFT LOTTO. We are happy to inform you that your email address have emerged a winner of FIVE MILLION POUNDS
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[Felicia]

Don't do it!!!!!!

[savanna3313]

Don't do it!!!!!!

Oh - don't worry.......I know it's just b.s. I think it's funny that since these people know I am the lottery winner and knew how to contact me to tell me this, why do they need all my contact info?? I can't believe that anyone would ever fall for these scams.

[Sombeech]

Let the wild goose chase begin.

Email them back saying you'd LOVE to help out, but you need dollars, not pounds. Just play it stupid, let them waste their time on you, trying to get in touch with you. Then finally tell them you've been screwing with them the whole time and their conversation has been posted on a website.

[Felicia]

Don't do it!!!!!!

Oh - don't worry.......I know it's just b.s. I think it's funny that since these people know I am the lottery winner and knew how to contact me to tell me this, why do they need all my contact info?? I can't believe that anyone would ever fall for these scams.

I know you know better. But it is amazing how many people freely give their information.

[abirken]

Girl, I get over 5 of these A DAY! I mark them as spam, but they just keep on making it back to my inbox. And yes, the question is......who really does fall for these? Oh and by the way, you won 5 mil so let's notify you by EMAIL......sure thing. Ding dongs!

[RugerShooter]

I can't believe it I didn't win any lotto's today, I normally win several time a day.

The only thing I could find is an email from "my bank" (I have a couple different emails all with a different bank name) that has a link to download a security & fraud protection program.

[DiscGo]

No it is totally real. Don't loose out on this excellent opportunity.

[JP]

I'm with Beech, screw with them

[Deathcricket]

Just post the email address it came from and we'll screw with them. They probably sent that to a million people.

[trackrunner]

The economy must be realy slowing down. I got a similar one a year ago for 50 million British pounds.

I get over 20+ lottery, rich uncle, hot women looking for me, emails a day. I think I need to switch email. Anyone have recomendations on email providers (currently with Yahoo, thinking of switching to gmail).

[KapitanSparrow]

The economy must be realy slowing down. I got a similar one a year ago for 50 million British pounds.

I get over 20+ lottery, rich uncle, hot women looking for me, emails a day. I think I need to switch email. Anyone have recomendations on email providers (currently with Yahoo, thinking of switching to gmail).

I got an old yahoo account I don't use and I get hundreds of spam emails daily - some of them get filtered right away but many don't. I have two gmail accounts and I've been really happy with spam filters - hardly anything gets through. Not to mention the clean interface.

[FROGGER]

my question is, What kind of sites do you people visit (lots o porn I bet ) I never get these kind of emails..

If yours getting 5 a day you are on some rank email lists...

[abirken]

my question is, What kind of sites do you people visit (lots o porn I bet ) I never get these kind of emails..

If yours getting 5 a day you are on some rank email lists...

No I learned my lesson about looking on porn online..........long time ago. HAHA! Seriously, I don't look at anything like that and i've been getting these crazy emails to my yahoo account constantly. Maybe it's time to change?

[FROGGER]

my question is, What kind of sites do you people visit (lots o porn I bet ) I never get these kind of emails..

If yours getting 5 a day you are on some rank email lists...

No I learned my lesson about looking on porn online..........long time ago. HAHA! Seriously, I don't look at anything like that and i've been getting these crazy emails to my yahoo account constantly. Maybe it's time to change?

Sure sure denial, Kidding, Try gmail, as was stated above it has a great spam filter and the layout is great...

[savanna3313]

my question is, What kind of sites do you people visit (lots o porn I bet ) I never get these kind of emails..

If yours getting 5 a day you are on some rank email lists...

Porno site? What's that?



Hey - I'm a southern lady and we don't "do" that - right Alison?
Actually, even though I have the spam filter activated, it's my Yahoo account that gets all this nonsense. My "real" email account has hardly any spam that gets through (I use X-Mission for my server).