What kind a joke is this ? I’ve received an e_mail from the desk of vice-pres. int’l dep. Yahoo Beta Team…?
Question by Remus: What kind a joke is this ? I’ve received an e_mail from the desk of vice-pres. int’l dep. Yahoo Beta Team…?
What is this ?
“FROM THE DESK OF THE VICE PRESIDENT INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT YAHOO! BETA TEAM /MICROSOFT INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2010 GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSE!!!
YAHOO! BETA TEAM /MICROSOFT IS REGISTERED UNDER THE DATA PROTECTION ACT OF; (Registration Z720633X).
Ref No:
Batch Number:
Winning Number.
Coupon No…..
Dear Email Bearer,
CONSOLATION PRIZE WINNING NOTICE !!!
Yahoo! Beta Team private International E-games organizers and Co-sponsors, MICROSOFT/ STAATSLOTERIJ officially bring to your notice of the final draw result of 2010 YAHOO! TEAM/MICROSOFT / STAATSLOTERIJ wheel E-game which was conducted at our international corporate office.
Most recently this foundation set up the YAHOO! BETA TEAM LOTTERY SCHEME to give out prizes based on COMPUTER BALLOT SYSTEM…. By doing this the foundation seek to encourage the use of Internet for academic and business pursuits. It major aim is to promote music, theater, art and literature projects in the social and political arena with a focus on health, as well as science, research, and higher education. …
Your email ID identified with Coupon No. … was selected by our E-games Random Selection System (ERSS) with entries from the 50,000 different email addresses enrolled for the E-game. Your email ID was included among the 50,000 different email addresses submitted by our partner international email provider companies.
YAHOO! TEAM & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arrange and gather some of all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, …
…
PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM
We are sorry that your Payment Approval File was sent to London due to we have 2 lucky winners in United Kingdom so that you can be cleared and paid simultaneously there. You are to contact our AFRICA Location Claim Agent with the information below, before your date of Claim.
Yahoo! Team Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 12 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. And we wish to keep you informed that we deposited all entire award prize money in Halifax Bank Plc London England, and we made all entire prize money in fixed deposited for security reason, and the bank did not have any access to touch your winning fund till it been transfer to you.
Our DUE PROCESS UNIT (DPU) will render to you complete assistance and provide additional information and processes for the claims of your consolation prize. For due processing of your winning claim, please contact your claim Agent Rev. Ferdinand Nelson who has been assigned to assist you.
AGENT CONTACT INFORMATION:
Name: Rev. Ferdinand Nelson
E-mail: revferdinandn76@gmail.com
Telephone Number: +2348065819738
You are advised to provide him with the following information:
Full Name: …………………………………….
Contact Address: …………………………….
Phone Number: ………………………………..
Fax Number: …………………………………..
Nationality: ……………………………………
Occupation……………………………………….
Marital Status: ……………………………….
Sex: ………………………………………………
Age: ……………………………………………..
Amount Won: ………………………………….
Country of origin…………………………….
Below is your identifications numbers which you have to present to him together with your personal information for the claims.
Ref Number:
Batch Number:
Winning Number:
Coupon Number:
Once again congratulations from all our staffs on your Consolation prize winning, we hope you will partake in our Forth coming YAHOO!/TEAM, MICROSOFT/ STAATSLOTERIJ Email-games.
Regards,
(Group Coordinator)
NB: In accordance with the YAHOO BETA TEAM, MICROSOFT/STAATSLOTERIJ E-games policy and regulations, this notification is dispatched directly to only the 5 lucky consolation prize Winners. This notification also contains information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the right recipient whose email address attached to the lucky number along with the winning information, you are not authorized to read, print, retain copy or disseminate this notice or any part of it.
Your In Service
Mrs. Jennifer Hug
Vice President
®Yahoo! Team International Award Lottery Program 2010 ® ”
Best answer:
Answer by MTsBabydoll
I’m going to say bogus email. First, did you enter a contest? Second, Most official business’s especially one as big as yahoo, are NOT going to write so much in CAPS. Third, a large corporation like Yahoo is probably going to be able to get the tenses and grammer correct in the letter. Fourth, Why on Earth would you consider giving away SO MUCH of your personel information out on the internet and to an unknown party? Did you know identity theft can be accomplished with only your name and date of birth?
I just looked up the phone number for “Rev. Ferdinand Nelson” it comes up on a website for fake lottery scams.
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