Internet Fraud

WHY IS IT THAT EVERY E-MAIL SCAM I HAVE RECEIVED HAS A YAHOO ADDRESS I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE FROM ANOTHER ISP PROVIDER WHATS UP WITH YAHOO THEY MUST CONDONE IN THIS TYPE OF BULLSHIT ON THE WEB !!! HERE IS A COPY OF THE LATEST ONE! THE DESK OF THE DIRECTOR PROMOTIONS, INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, THE NATIONAL LOTTERY. MORTIMER HOUSE ,MORTIMER STREET, LONDON, W1T3JH UNITED KINGDOM. NOTIFICATION (UKON 2007) Ref No: UKON-5464K2/71 Batch Number: AT-040SB06-03 Lucky Numbers: 34.13.26.19.02.12.[08] Bonus Ball 3,March 2007. ATTENTION: WINNER , You have been Selected in the UKON 2007 Lottery Program. Our lottery program selection has finally been performed today which was held at the Marina office. UK Promotion is a joint Euro/America private lottery registered and organized in accordance with the World Lottery Regulation acte We the The National Lottery organizing committee are pleased to officially notify you of the status of your email application. An official notification of winning is hereby issued to you as your email promotion ticket randomly drew for the Lucky Numbers: 34.13.26.19.02.12. [08]Bonus Ball ,which selected your email as the 2ND winner of our lottery program you have consequently won the lottery program in the first batch. Suffice to say here, We have officially approved a sum payout of 480,204 (four hundred and eighty thousand two hundred and four pound sterling)to you as the lottery winner. This amount is from total prize cash of £1,000,000 (ONE million pounds sterlings)randomly distributed among Three (3)international winners selected by our Lottery Random System Selection(LRSS). You are hereby required to contact your fiduciary agent with below details for your funds. Mrthomson. ( FIdiCIARY AGENT ) Email: fidiciarythomson@yahoo.com Fax: +447 005 800 664 TEL: +44 704 570 2390 +44 704 570 2178 VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM FULL NAMES : AGE: SEX: ADDRESS: COUNTRY: MARITAL STATUS: OCCUPATION: PHONE NUMBER: FAX NUMBER: LUCKY NUMBER : REF NUMBER: Congratulations from all our staff for being part of UK 2007 LOTTERY PROGRAM.

The reason Yahoo appears to be the source of all those scams is that Yahoo holds a very significant share of the email market. However, Yahoo isn't a part of the spamming or scamming. Spammers are programmers, and they can make something look like something else. I'm sure if Yahoo had their way, the spammers would be taken out and shot! What is MUCH more important is how YOU are handling such emails... 1. Spam mails that go straight to Bulk should be left there. You can empty the Bulk folder any time you want, but never NEVER open spam mails. 2. Spam mails that land in your Inbox should be marked as Spam so that they are moved to Bulk and placed on the Blocked list. (Blocking an address prevents mails from being received from that address.) 3. Any email that you are the least bit suspicious about should be deleted immediately. Don't let curiosity get the better of you. Simply by opening a spam email, you could be alerting the spammers that you have an active email address (they probably didn't know it before), to which they will most certainly send TONS of spam mail in the future.

These should wind up in your Junk Mail box. That's about all that a person can do about them. You outta be happy you weren't dumb enough to fall for this crap though, as many people do.