Comments on: Yahoo! Lottery notifications – don’t fall for ‘em!

By: Open Letter to Yahoo! Mail: Will You Please Finally Run a Lottery? | IT News Online

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:45:08 +0000

[...] know that you have explained already that your users should not expect to win anything – no matter how trustworthy those emails [...]

By: Open Letter to Yahoo! Mail: Will You Please Finally Run a Lottery? | Profy | Internet news and commentary

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:44:43 +0000

[...] know that you have explained already that your users should not expect to win anything – no matter how trustworthy those emails [...]

By: tracy

tracy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:56:06 +0000

I too have had the e mail to say we have won and stupidly I have replied with the information that they required. I did not disclose any personal info but can you tell me if this is going to be misused now? Very worried :-(

By: Lottery Results Florida Lotto Magic Business

Lottery Results Florida Lotto Magic Business — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:52:04 +0000

Very useful information

By: J.D.

J.D. — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:31:21 +0000

Hooray! Looks like Yahoo! has finally filed a lawsuit against these criminals.

http://boxofmeat.net/post/36275585/sfgate-yahoo-files-suit-against-lottery-spammers

By: fritz

fritz — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:06:03 +0000

Why do we still receive them? I have been hitting the spam button on these for years and I still get them, almost daily.
What happens to email we mark as spam?

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:42:39 +0000

WOW, I didnt need a warning but I surely appreciate it. I have recieved about four or five of these notices letting me know that i won 590,000 pounds. Well I went ahead and replied via email and phone letting them know that if I were the winner of thier lottery then surely I would have entered and surely they would have had my phone and home adress. unrelentingly they sent another email asking me for a voided check so they would know my routing number, yeah they probably wouold have taken 590,000 pounds out. I cant imagine the bounce check fee on that. It’s either that or it cost 1,000 dollars to send the check for 500 bucks, yahooers BEWARE, and SMART. GOOD LUCK.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:31:19 +0000

Ryan,

In response to your question posted on May 9, I believe the duplicate alert messages have only been happening with the Mail blog.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:15:02 +0000

Wow…this stuff is getting really out of hand. Thanks so much for the valuable information.

By: azmac

azmac — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:52:36 +0000

If their email address ends with yahoo.com or hotmail.com or any other free email address its 100% a sure fake.