UK LOTTERY PROMOTIONS BOARD
Received an email saying that I was winner from Yahoo Lottery Inc. Asking for me to provide personal information so I could receive my winnings... Complete fraud!!!

Here are the two emails that I received from them... Please beware and don't repsond complete RIPOFF...

is to inform you that you have won a prize money of FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($US500, 000.00) for the YEAR 2008 Lottery promotion which is 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 Yahoo and Hotmail, and others we only select FIVE (5) 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

We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to Africa due to we have 3 lucky winners in Africa so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our African Location Claim Agent on or before your date of Claim.

Yahoo Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 7 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won.