Have you received an e-mail stating that you have a lottery conducted by Yahoo(Truth is Yahoo never conducted any Lottery). Though most of the people have neglected that mail correctly judging it as a scam there were a few others who were trapped and cheated in the name of Yahoo.
These e-mails included a link to a Web site bearing Yahoo's logos that asked victims to fill in their personal information, a scam known as Phishing . Some other e-mails requested the customers to send money for security and delivery fees before receiving their prize.
Finally Yahoo suing is a group of unidentified companies and individuals loosely called the Yahoo Lottery Spammers for running e-mail scams that sought victim's personal information and extorted money from purported winners.
Yahoo filed the lawsuit against 25 unidentified companies and 25 unnamed individuals. So people Beware of frauds!!!!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Yahoo Files Lawsuit Against Lottery Scammers.
Posted by sandeep at 10:57 AM
Labels: Phishing, Phishing in the name of Yahoo, Yahoo Files Lawsuit Against Lottery Scammers, Yahoo Lottery, Yahoo Lottery Scam
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I wish they would elaborate more on this because the usual suspects of this type of fraud are based out of Nigeria, although some are located elsewhere.
For more information on how these scams operate, take a peek at:
theScamBaiter.com
I agree with Anthony, Let people be aware of where these scams originate from, not that they exist, most people have gotten them, I have yet to see one come from the USA, it is usually Nigeria, Parts of Canada, and the UK. To truly stop these crimes, consumers need to be educated on them.
Ya most of the scammers reside outside US
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