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It there an international Yahoo lottery?

I received an e-mail today from Alex Davis" <alexdavis@info-online-services.net asking me to contact Contact Our Overseas Claim Agent/Representative
Name: Dr. Smith Johnson & Associates(Esq.)
Legal attorneys Group: No 25 Gill building
Vet hill fiden Liverpool United Kingdom
Tel:+44 702 405 4336
Fax:+44 87097 49483
E:mail: smithjohnson_002@hotmail.co.uk

is this for real?

There is no Yahoo! Lottery, and Yahoo would never send you information about a contest you never entered.

That鈥檚 the definition of unsolicited: you never asked for it. It showed up out of nowhere. The message probably also displays two other hallmarks of fraud emails: it appears to be official (with company logos, even links), and it demands urgent action 鈥渢o claim your prize鈥? or something similar.

If you鈥檝e received a message like 鈥淔inal Notification: Yahoo! Mail Winner!鈥?or 鈥淵our Email Address Has Won $XX million鈥? it鈥檚 a scam.

Don鈥檛 reply to the email, don鈥檛 click on any links in it, and never divulge any personal information. Instead, click Spam.

Yahoo! Mail will never request personal information in an unsolicited email.

If you get an email that looks like it鈥檚 from Yahoo! but tells you you鈥檙e the winner of a Yahoo! Lottery or other contest 鈥?and it asks you to email personal information to claim a cash prize or reward 鈥?click Spam to dispose of it. You can also forward the suspicious email to mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com.

Nope. No such critter. Yahoo DOES NOT HAVE LOTTERIES!!!!!!!!

SACM SACM SACM SACM SACM SACM SACM SACM!!!

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