Fraud Mailers: Yahoo update info mail

A traditional form of fraud, wherein you will be notified that your email account is on the verge of deactivation due to the congestion amongst yahoo mail users and then asked to send in your personal info as a reply to that email. Yahoo automatically deactivates inactive email accounts, that is true, but you can activate the same just by logging in once. There is no such thing as congestion amongst the email community, moreover if yahoo has ever send such mail, why should we reply to such a mail? Directly login to Yahoo and find out the truth for yourself. Here the objective of the fraud is probably to gain access to your email and thereby accessing your personal info like bank account password/username etc.

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Fraud Mailers: Yahoo Award Notification with Warning!

This guy says not to tell anybody that you have won a prize! Believe me, that should be the first thing you should be doing…

from	Live Awards Centre<cooordinator.brad01@live.com>
reply-to		yliveawardscentre@yahoo.co.uk
to
date		Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM
subject		PAYMENT OF PRIZE / CLAIMS

Yahoo & Window Live Awards Centre
124 Stockport Road,
Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB
United  Kingdom.
Tel: +44 70457 89796  Fax: +448719003714

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (GBP 250,000) for the month of January,2009 Prize   promotion which is organized by YAHOO AWARDS  & WINDOWS LIVE.YAHOO collects all the email addresses of the people that
are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six people are selected monthly to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.
PAYMENT OF PRIZE / CLAIMS
Winners shall be paid in accordance with their Settlement Centers. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later than 30 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited and returned to its source as unclaimed.Stated below are your
identification numbers:
BATCH NUMBER:            MFI/06/APA-43658
REFERENCE NUMBER:    2007234522
PIN:                                 1207
You are requested to contact our co-ordinator in Manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him: Co-ordinator’s Name:  Mr. Druv Matindale:E-Mail:uk_coordinator_2007uk@hotmail.com Tel: +44 70457 89796  Fax: +448719003714:You are advised to send the following information to our
co-ordinator to facilitate the release of of your fund to you.
1. Full name…………………………….
2. Country………………………………
3. Contact Address……………………….
4. Telephone Number………………………
5. fax Number……………………………
5. Marital Status………………………..
6. Occupation……………………………
7. Sex………………………………….
8. Date of Birth/Age …………………….
Congratulations!! once again.
Yours in service,
Mrs. Grace Sanders
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WARNING!You must keep strict confidentiality of your Prize Award claims to yourself until your
money is successfully handed over to you to avoid disqualification thatmay arise from double claims.Yahoo Awards  Team shall not be held liable for any loss of funds arising from the above mentioned.

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