i have recieve mail just now i won 75000 pound from facebook, yahoo, msn 2012 awards?

[Faisal Shah]

i have recieve mail just now i won 75000 pound from facebook, yahoo, msn 2012 awards
PRIZE CLAIM PROCEDURE
Winners are to be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. This Prize Award must be claimed not later than 15 working days from date of draw notification after which unclaimed prizes are cancelled.
These are your identification numbers:
Reference Number: FACEBOOK/YWL/004/055
Batch Number: YWL/YAHOO/FACEBOOK/025
Award Organizing File Code: UK/YWL/FACEBOOK
These numbers fall within the South African file. Thus, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Johannesburg South Africa and send your winning identification numbers to him:
Kindly send the following information to your claim agent to facilitate the release of your fund.
1. Full Names:………………………………………………………………â€​¦â€¦â€¦â€¦â€¦
2. Country of Residence:…………………….Nationality:………………………
3. Mobile:………………………….Telephone Number:…………………………..
4. Fax Number: ……………………………………………………………………â€​¦â€¦.
5. Gender:………………………….Winning Email:…………………………………
6. Date of Birth:………………………… Marital Status…………………………..
7. Full Address:………………………………………………………………​……………
8. Your Company Name:……………………………………………………………….
9. Occupation:……………………………………………………………​………………..
Once your Releasing Manager acknowledges the receipt of the above request details, he will get back to you immediately with the modalities on how the release should be made.

its fake scam or true

[David]

that is defonally fake there's noway you could of won all 3 at once from facebook yahoo and msn

[Gunnar]

This is a text book case of scam mail. You would lack all common sense if you think there is any truth in this.

"If it's too good to be true, it probably is"

[Kittysue]

100% SCAM
1. NONE of those companies have a lottery of give away money
2. ALL of them are American companies, not South African
3. These companies are all rivals and would NEVER do any promotions together

This is nothing but a scam to steal your identity. With all they ask for they can make a fake passport in your name but their photo and commit crimes using our identity

Delete it

[InsaneHard867]

100% scam.

There is no lottery.

There is no Yahoo, Skype, Facebook, Nokia, Shell, BBC, Google, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lotto Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

[bigmeat749]

Spending 5 minutes goggling this would have answered it quicker then waiting for us to.

Yahoo, MSN, and Facebook has NOTHING WHAT SO EVER to do with any such lottery. That alone should of been the biggest red flag.