Does my E-mail id jyotirindra.jyoti85@gmail.comw鈥?any lottery from yahoo?

i have received a mail from %26lt;loyolite_jaikar@yahoo.co.in%26gt;, that


i have won a prize money 500000 pound sterling from yahoo,


is it true?
Does my E-mail id jyotirindra.jyoti85@gmail.comw鈥?any lottery from yahoo?
E-mails that claim to be from lottery representatives or agents are scams. Period.





Fake lottery scams fall under the category of Advance Fee Fraud because, to claim the (nonexistent) money, you must pay fees in advance. You can visit http://www.scamwarners.com/ for all sorts of information about a variety of scams - including Advance Fee Fraud.





Basically, scammers harvest e-mail addresses from all over the Internet and spam in-boxes with these "You've won the lottery!" e-mails. The more addresses they spam, the better their chances of receiving a response from a victim. Some sites maintain indexes and databases of scam e-mails. Use Google to search for a sentence or two from the lottery e-mail that you have: more often than not, the search results will lead you to a database site, where many other copies of the same scam are archived.





In the example of the fake lottery, you will usually be asked to pay a "courier fee." This can be a few hundred dollars or more. But when you wire the money (the scammers prefer Western Union or Money Gram, as it's very difficult to trace these transactions), there will be another fee, or another excuse for why you have not yet received the check.





You'll keep sending money until you either go broke or realize that you've been scammed. Either way, there is little that can be done to recover the cash you've sent to these con artists. They operate all over the world, so it's not likely that your local law-enforcement division would even have jurisdiction in the case.





The safest thing to do is to simply delete the e-mails. Some of these cases are under investigation, so reporting the scammer's e-mail address to the provider, which gets the account closed, might destroy an ongoing investigation. You should never give these scammers your contact information, or even bother opening the e-mails at all, really. Many scammers work in Internet cafes all over the world. In some areas, these computers are FULL of viruses...so the scammer will inadvertently forward something nasty to everybody he or she contacts.





Any time you receive a "You've won the lottery!" type of e-mail, ask yourself these questions. They'll help you confirm that the e-mail is a scam.





"When did I buy a lottery ticket?" You cannot win if you do not play.





"When did the lottery commission begin notifying winners via e-mail?" In most legitimate lotteries, the commission does not even know who holds the winning ticket. Until you come forward with the winning ticket to claim your prize, nobody knows who you are. So how does the lottery commission have your e-mail address?





If you have an e-mail that claims to be from a state or national lottery (the UK lottery is a popular one), then ask yourself, "When did this official lottery commission begin using free e-mail accounts?" The UK Lottery, like all other real lottery commissions on this planet, does NOT use Yahoo! Mail, GMail, et cetera.





"When did Yahoo!, Microsoft, Toyota, and other companies begin giving away money?" If these are real lotteries or giveaways, then the company's real Web site will have information about them. Go to a fresh browser window and manually type in the URL of the real Web site. You won't find any information about a lottery or giveaway on these sites because the scammers have made up the whole thing. The most that you'll find on these Web sites is, in some cases, a "Beware of these scams" warning.





There really isn't a good way to stop these e-mails. There are too many scammers out there. If you report an e-mail account to have it closed down, the scammer will just open another one. It takes a couple of minutes at the most and does not cost the scammer anything. But you *can* make sure that everyone you know is familiar with these scams. The more we all educate others, the fewer potential victims the scammers will have...which will make scamming less profitable and, therefore, less desirable.
Reply:Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information


http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri...


http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt...


http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...


.Also If you go to the following site you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful
Reply:There is no yahoo LOTTERY it is a


SCAM just hit the SPAM button do not open it just confirms your email address and you will get a lot more spam. Hope this helps!!!
Reply:Dont believe in this they will fool you....just spam it or delete it