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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Yahoo! Scam - 2nd June

I've received an email today that goes like this:-

" [Quoted] This is a short notice from Yahoo! We hereby announce the official
notification of the results of the Yahoo! Financial
promotions held on the this Month.you have won in the 1st category,
you have been approved for a lump sum pay out of 1,000,000.00 (i.e
One Million United Kingdom Pounds) you are required to contact him
with your detailed information as listed below;

Mr. Jimmy Walters
Email:mr.jimmywaltersdesk@8u8.com
Tel: +447031920807


FULL NAMES*CONTACT ADDRESS*COUNTRY*SEX *AGE* MARITAL
STATUS*OCCUPATION*NATIONALITY*TELEPHONE NUMBER*EMAIL ADDRESS*

Yours Sincerely,

Steve Ballmer,
"

What does the sender think? That I'm low enough to not realize that I'm supposed to reply to a non-Yahoo email? I've won cash and Yahoo doesn't send me through their corporate email? That's the most basic thing and the sender doesn't even know how to pull this off. Today's news in "The Star" newspaper (country local) highlights that there are already RM20mil lost through scams like one of the emails above. Come to think of it, it's sad as the victims includes lawyers and professionals. Don't they learn science and how to analyze things critically and logically?

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