Email regarding yahoo lottery winner?

Dear Esteemed Winner,


Thanks for your email response. This is to inform you that we have successfully confirmed the information you sent to this office to enable us process and remit your winning amount to you.





Firstly, I want to use this medium to once again congratulate you for being a winner of our email lottery programmes organized by YAHOO here in London, United Kingdom.





Please note that this Promotional Programmes tagged "Thanks for contributing to our financial Success" was sponsored and organized by the Yahoo Corporation in view of the Financial benefits YAHOO have received from its numerous customers either through adverts, hosting and personal emails.





It is also important that I inform you that there was no sales of tickets as the draws was conducted by assigning various Individual email addresses to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. Please note that this email addresses is normally supplied to us by free email services providers such

Email regarding yahoo lottery winner?
The so-called "419" scam (aka Advance Fee fraud, "Nigeria scam" or "West African" scam) is a type of fraud named after an article of the Nigerian penal code under which it is prosecuted.





Typically, victims of the scam are promised a lottery win (example) or a large sum of money sitting in a bank account or in a deposit box at a security company. Often the storyline involves a family member of a former member of government of an African country, a ministerial official, an orphan or widow of a rich businessman, etc. Here is an example. Variants of the plot involving the Philippines, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Mauritius, etc. are also known. Some emails include pictures of boxes stuffed with dollar bills, scans of fake passports, bank or government documents and pictures of supposedly the sender.





Though most of these scams use emails sent in English, we also come across emails translated into French, German, Italian or Spanish, as well as English and French letters by postal mail, usually mailed from Spain.





Back in the 1980s (for this is nothing new!) the main vehicle for this scam were fax machines.





The victims are promised a fortune for providing a bank account to transfer the money to. Then - if they fall for the scam - they are made to part with thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in "fees" (taxes, insurance, legal fees, etc) before the "partners" finally disappear without trace. The promised fortune is never paid out, because it doesn't actually exist. Here are some typical examples of advance fee demands.





Sometimes fraudulent cashier's checks are issued to the victims, who are asked to wire funds for various charges after the bank says funds are "available" from the check. Check can bounce even after they have "cleared" and then the person who deposited is fully liable.
Reply:Stay away from this and run as far as you can from these nonsense, you will find yourself robbed one day.