Yahoo! MyBlogLog to be discontinued - A Scam Email

This is a scam email. Why? Let me quickly summarize what I have observed in this scam email that indicate it is a scam email.

1. Email did not have the Yahoo! official logo

2. Source of this email is not convincing!!
From: Yahoo! "one.yahoo-email.com>"

3. The link redirect you to other web page, that is,  "http://yahoo-email.com/a/hBNZmRnBs19FXB8XEGCNshZL4WB/mybloglog7" instead of what is shown "https://billing.yahoo.com", and "http://yahoo-email.com/a/hBNZmRnBs19FXB8XEGCNshZL4WB/mybloglog2" instead of the real help page of Yahoo!.

4. If you go and Google the website of "http://yahoo-email.com", you will find nothing. In other words, even Google does not want to index this website, do you think you can trust this website?

For those you receive the similar email, do ignore it and just report to Yahoo!. For the sake of display, I purposely remove the re-directly from this scam email to avoid my reader to be re-direct to those scam website unconsciously. The content of this email is shown below:

		Dear MyBlogLog Customer, You have been identified as a customer of Yahoo! MyBlogLog. We will officially discontinue Yahoo! MyBlogLog effective May 24, 2011. Your agreement with Yahoo!, to the extent that it applies to the Yahoo! MyBlogLog, will terminate on May 24, 2011. After May 24, 2011 your credit card will no longer be charged for premium services on MyBlogLog. We will refund you the unused portion of your subscription, if any. The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method we have on file for you. To make sure that your billing information is correct and up to date, visit https://billing.yahoo.com. Questions? If you have questions about these changes, please visit the Yahoo! MyBlogLog help pages. We thank you for being a customer on Yahoo! MyBlogLog. Sincerely, The Yahoo! My BlogLog Team

Please do not reply to this message. This is a service email related to your use of Yahoo! MyBlogLog. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of Web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

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List of Scam Email I have received and posted in this post.
Yahoo Alert : Warning!Verify Your Account !! (VX2G99AAJ)
Yahoo!! International Lottery Organization!!!
YAHOO!-MICROSOFT FINANCIAL: YOU HAVE WON £1,000,000

Yahoo Alert : Warning!Verify Your Account !! (VX2G99AAJ) - Scam Email

This is definitely a scam email. Why? Yahoo! or any providers never send such thing to require their users to send password or personal details for verification. Other methods to justify a scam email can be found in my previous posts in this blog. (You can also simply click the label of Scam Email to check my previous explanation about this matter)

The content of this scam email is stated below: Guess what, your account will be interrupted if you try to reply this kind of scam email. The rule of thumb is to drop an official email to the providers directly if you really afraid that this kind of thing is "true". In fact, we can just ignore them because they just like a dust in our room, which need be cleared up everyday. Because you never be surprised that your room has dust, don't you?

From:	Yahoo Alert
To:

---

Account Alert
Dear Valued Member,

Due to the congestion in all Yahoo users and removal of all unused Yahoo Accounts,Yahoo would be shutting down all unused Accounts,You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Lo gin Info below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons.

 

User Name: ....................

Password: .........................

Date of Birth: .......................

Occupation: ......................... 

Country Or Territory : ...................

 

After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

Warning!!!  Account owner that refuses to update his or her account before two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.

 .                                                     

Copyright © 2011 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved

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Google Warning: Verify Your Information or Account Suspension (Scam)

This is too ridiculous. Haha. I received an stupid scam, obviously. Why? Please read the content of the email as stated below first. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"
From: Gmail (mailboxdata@gmail.com)
Sent: Wed, 5 January, 2011 12:28:38
Subject: Google Warning


Due to anonymous registration of our email service, We have come to realize that your account information on our database system are out of date, as a result of that we require you to verify your Information. Failure to verify your information will result in account suspension.

Username:
Password:
Birthdate:
Location:


Note: This warning is only for Google members, your account will not be interrupted after providing the above information and your email service will continue to work as normal.


Thank you for using Gmail
"
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After that, you might need to read what I have mentioned before about "8 ways to verify spam email & avoid cheating " post in Xaivier Blog.

In short, I would like to highlight few points that can immediately help you to ignore this kind of scam email.

1. Do you see your email address in the email? Answer: NO

2. Do you think that Google will use mailboxdata@gmail.com as its email address? Come on. Anyone also can register this email account. So, the answer is: NO

3. Do you think Google people will do this kind of action? Sending an email for verification? Logically speaking, who knows your data is out-of-data or not. Besides, is it your birthday changed from time to time? If it does, what you need to do is just sign in your gmail account directly. Google people are not free to do this kind of task manually. Therefore, let's give this scammer a big NO NO.
 

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How Spammer Attacks My Blog: Step by step Explanation

After attacking by spammers several times. I think I should do something to prevent them to contaminate my blog.

Firstly, I have changed my comment setting in such a way that only registered users can drop a comment in blog. It is really very hard for me to make this decision since I love to hearing something from my visitors. However, the thing is I have no free time to "entertain" those spammers.

Next, I will try my best to explain the way to recognize this spammer in this post. The archive of the comments from this spammer is shown below: (which included a comment from me)
(Note: This spammer was normally attacking my blog by using Anonymous account)

Anonymous said...
HI I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL FROM MCDONALDS. I PAID FOR DELIVERY STUFF GOT THE FIRST BATCH OF CHEQUE FROM MCDONALDS AND CASHED IT LAST FRIDAY. I CHECKED WITH MY BANK TODAY GOT 89,000 DOLLARS WHICH I ACTUALLY WITHDRAW AND BOUGHT ME A CAR. AND CURRENTLY EXPECTLY THE REST CHEQUES. I AM SO GREATFUL TO DR HARRY HECTOR WHY ALL THIS HISS AND WRONG INFORMATION ABOUT MCDONALDS PROMOTION!

September 28, 2010 4:21 AM

Anonymous said...
Xaivier Chia Please Get a JOB! Stop informing people wrongly i am Mary lee from Ontario Canada i got the cheque 3 days back from 4th batch its real!

September 28, 2010 4:26 AM

Anonymous said...
what! Xaivier you are such a bastard! i am here in malaysia and was with harry hector today. Where are you i want a meeting with you give your number here i want a meeting with you.

Nora.

September 28, 2010 5:42 AM

Anonymous said...
Leave him Nora. He needs a loud and sound slap. I will have to report this site to the FBI. He needs to be charged to court for treason. Be sure before posting wrong information about people okay!

Zaki. ( Sabah ).

September 28, 2010 5:46 AM

Anonymous said...
Xaivier,

You are such a retard bastard. May allah have mercy on your dirty soul. Bloody Lier. MCDONALDS IS REAL.

Mohammed Yusuf.
September 28, 2010 9:58 AM


Xaivier Chia said...
Ha ha!! Well, it looks like that some spammers have attacked my blog. (I mean Anonymous ones)

Anyway, I think these spammers' "comments" are good for my visitors to learn how they spam or cheat innocent people. Therefore, I decide do not delete them.

Real gold never fear the fire.
September 28, 2010 10:00 PM


Anonymous said...
You are a fucking bastard Xaivier. I knew you as a kid in secondary school. You are still up to your fucking pranks. When are you going to change? Dont you have the fear of God in you ? You are ruthless and also a diry lier. Repent and jesus will accept you and redeem you of all your sins. Caltex is real.

Remain blessed.
Chen Lee
October 4, 2010 1:00 AM

1. Let see the time of the first five comments as stated below:
September 28, 2010 4:21 AM
September 28, 2010 4:26 AM
September 28, 2010 5:42 AM
September 28, 2010 5:46 AM
September 28, 2010 9:58 AM

As you can see, all of them are in the same day and with a very short interval time. So, what does it mean? Personally, I think it is just a so-called "single player spammer". In other words, this spammer tried to create an illusion that few "visitors" were giving their personal comment.

2. Logically, if a visitor who want to make a comment as Anonymous, it is quite illogical for them to leave their name or even the place they from. That's why I always say that "a spammer still a spammer".

3. Lastly, if it is true about the rewards, what is the benefit for me to tell me visitors it is actually a spam and scam email? On the other hand, what is the benefit for them (the spammers) who try to convince my visitor that I am wrong? Yes, more people will be cheated and more money they can "earn".

Again, real gold never fear the fire. Good luck to all my visitors here. That's all for today. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic or any suggestion about Xaivier Blog. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.

(p/s:Good news for all my visitors here. Eventually, I have received an reply from McDonald regarding this scam email. Feel free to take a look at the post at McDonald's Seasonal Promotion - email scam (10/08/2010))

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Shell Petroleum Development Company of England poverty Alleviation Program

Actually, I am quite tired. It is because everyday "silly people" are trying to give me "money"... Again, a prize of Ј500,000.00 from Shell Petroleum Development Company of England poverty alleviation program
was released to me... But, obviously, this is another scam, spam and phishing email. Why? First of all, let's have a look at the content of this scam email as shown below:

" 
From:  Mark Scott <markscott@officer.com>
To:

Shell Email Lottery Administrative Department,
1 West ferry Circus, Canary Wharf London,
United Kingdom E14 4HA.
Reference No: CMLC-L/F56-554562.
Batch No: CMLC-9932009


We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was released on the Tuesday April 27, 2010 by Shell Petroleum Development Company of England poverty alleviation program which is fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail addresses from sites and your email address were attached to.

REFERENCE NUMBER: SPDC-081511
TICKET NUMBER: 644 79543465 B44805
SERIAL NUMBER: 4708-325


This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 13, 26,34,48,97 and bonus number 17, which consequently won the lottery in the second category. You have been approved to receive the sum of Ј500,000.00 (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS) in cash, credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/02 from the total cash prize shared among six lucky winners in this category.


All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo, Aol, Walla, rediffmail, Gmail, Russian Mail, Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers in Canada, Australia, United States of America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania Six people are selected annually to benefit from this promotion and you are one of the Selected Winners.


This Lottery was organized by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of England as part of her social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have an operational base. Furthermore, your detailed (e-mail address) falls within our Asian representative office in London, United Kingdom as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of Ј500,000.00 will be released to you from our regional bank as appointed by the United Nation also in London. We hope that with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for Ј1.5 Billion international draw.


However, the 2010 Shell International E-mail Promotion is no doubt, a momentous achievement in the history of this Corporation. While basking in the euphoria of this achievement, I wish to seize this opportunity to acquaint you with guidelines as you must follow in order to complete your claims. On our part, we have a mandate to see you through.


We will work assiduously to realize this mandate as we respect your views opinions and most importantly protect your Privacy. This promotion is part of the financial empowerment program of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in its struggle to alleviate poverty. To file for your claim please contact your fiduciary agent for the immediate release of your lottery prize.


Name: Barrister Anthony Smith
Email: barr_anthonysmith101@lawyer.com
Tell: +447045757336


You are required to forward the following details to help process your winning Certificate, which will facilitate the release of your Ј500,000.00 to you. Make sure all information is correct and to the best of your knowledge to avoid termination of your prize.


1. First Name:................................
2. Middle Name:................................
3. Last Name:................................
4. Address:........................
5. State/province:...................
6. Country:...........................
7. Nationality:.......................
8. Mobile Phone Number:..............
9. Home Phone Number:................
10. Occupation:..............
11. Sex:......................
12. Age:.....................


I hereby declare that the above information is true and binding on me. If at any time it is discovered that I have given false information, I will forfeit the rights to my winning. Please also quote your reference, batch and winning numbers which can be found on the top left corner of this notification.


For security reasons we advice all winners to keep their information confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your prize released to you.


This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this program by non-participants or unofficial personnel.


Awards must be claimed not later than 2 weeks from the day of this notification, otherwise all funds will be returned as unclaimed and eventually be donated to charity organizations.


Yours in Service,


Mark Scott (PhD).
Publicity Officer (SPD)"

1. Now, you need to ask yourself why the email address of the sender is markscott@officer.com? Is this an official email address of the company?(Definitely, not)

2. Next, ask yourself again, have you seen your email address in this email? (Definitely, not)

To conclude, always ask yourself these two questions before take any action upon this kind of email. This simple action will definitely help you to identify this kind of scam email in the future. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.

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Getting that fund transferred to a Swiss account. Phishing Email

I really not sure why these silly people like to email me and tell me the win money but please give your name, address etc for verification...

But if you look carefully, most of these email will fall into your spam box because a mass of people will receive it. Yes, please look carefully, the sender's email address is blank. Therefore, one can be very sure this is a spam email or phishing email when your email address is not shown in the email.

The content of this silly email is shown below:

" From: M T. Willson<imfor_2000@sify.com>
To:

Good day,
i>I am very happy to inform you about my success in getting that fund transferred to a Swiss account.


However, I did not forget your past effort to assist me, despite the fact that it failed us somehow.

I have therefore kept the sum of US$2.500,000.00 in a Cashier Cheque with my Lawyer on your behalf,
So you can contact him on the information below:
Contact person: Bar Yaro A.Babamutum
Email: (bar_yaro.a.babamutum@w.cn)
Contact him and ask him to send you the sum of two Million Five Hundred United States Dollars in a cashier Cheque.
Please do let me know immediately you received and cash your fund so that we can share the joy together. In the moment, I am very busy here in Switzerland because of the investment projects, which the new partner and I are having at hand.


Best regards,
M T. Willson
Pan Euro Mortgage and Finance."

Find out more how to justify this kind of silly email, please visit my old post regarding Scam Email and Phishing Email. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.

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Kindly Acknowledge Receipt of this Email: 3 Steps to Verify a Scam Email

There are three very obvious parts in this email tell us this is a scam email.

1. First of all, the sender's email address is not from so-called Sony Ericsson. Do you believe that Sony Ericsson not afford to buy email address for their employee but got money to give you??

2. The receiver's email address is not specific. In other words, more than one people will receive this kind of email with the same Ticket number: Sony/89bgn002876/2010. How can the company who will obtain the price. All people who show out this so-called ticket number?? Come on, this is not logic and the company will bankrupt soon this email is real.

3. Finally, please don't greed. I haven't ever applied or participated so-called the Sony Ericsson ongoing year promotion, how the company get me??

The content of this email is shown below:

"From: MR JOHN GIBBS <vt6770516@base.be>
To: info@sony.com


Acknowledge receipt of this email.

Sony Ericsson Claim Branch
Plot 2 wuse avenue,
Abuja.Nigeria

You have been successfully approved to receive the winnings sum of
650,000pounds from the Sony Ericsson ongoing year promotion.

Fill this below form for claims:

Full Name:
Address:
Tel:
Country:
Age: /Sex:
occupation:
Amount Won:
Ticket number: Sony/89bgn002876/2010

Once again congratulations and happy winnings.
Regards
Mr John Gibbs
+2347035762489
Sony Ericsson Online Agent"

To sum up, please think careful, do your research and never ever be greed. If you can do these, the possibility for you to be cheated is very low. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.

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Trade with Stock Genius - Math student discovers formula to produce $1M+ in just 13 months

"Trade with Stock Genius - Math student discovers formula to produce $1M+ in just 13 months."

So, do you believe this kind of email??

After reading the title of this kind of email, I will always ask myself one question:
"If that is a formula to produce $1M+ in just 13 months, why the person still need to SPAM me ???"

Besides, what is the currency,$, and the symbol M stand for in this email?? Although, generally, we know that $ = USD and M = million, for a serious and true email, these kind of matters must be specific.

The content of this email is shown below:

"
I'm assuming you know what I'm talking about. If not, let me take a second to fill you in.
There's a site on the internet that claims to have invented a robot that can pick winning stocks.
All you have to do is hit a button and the software 'magically' tells you what stock is about to explode!
What a joke! I have a better idea. Why don't you just take out your wallet and light it on fire!
Why? This 'robot software' is just a basic software application that scans through a bunch of ticker symbols
and lands on a stock symbol completely at random! It's completely fake!


I realize that there are a lot of services on the internet that you have to chose from, so I'll get straight
to the question you're asking right now. What makes this different? He's a real live person!

stockgenius.com-grab.us

He's developed a unique formula that has made him a millionaire by investing in stocks.
And now he's offering 500 people the opportunity to trade alongside him. This membership will close after
he reach 500 members, so time is of the essence! Or, you can go back and take your chances with the robot.
It's up to you.

stockgenius.com-grab.us

Best of luck to you,
Ella Morgan
stock8_genius@ymail.com


No mor e.mails? klik dis: http://susurl.com/removeme"

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Yahoo!! International Lottery Organization!!! Scam Email.

The content of this scam email is shown below:

"
From: Mrs. Akira Itsuki  <lotteryyoffice@yahoo.com.hk>

To: 

YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY RESULTS 2010
CONGRATULATIONS!!!


Yahoo!! International Lottery Organization
Bangkok Branch Office
Address: 109\219 Moon 8, Bang-Khun-Tien Road,
Bangkok 19160 Thailand.

Yahoo! Mail announces you as one of the 25 lucky winners in the ongoing 12 Years Yahoo lottery Award of the New Year Held on 11th the April 2010.

All 25 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually, consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of ONE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS ( $1, 000. 000.00USD)


This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.
Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Bangkok representative office in Bangkok Thailand, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ( $1, 000.000.00USD) will be released to you from this regional branch office in Bangkok Thailand.

Your fund is now deposited with our Bank/Security Company Bangkok Thailand and insured in your name. Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this award from public notice until your claim has been processed, and your winning Cheque have being sent to you or remitted to your account, as this is part of our security protocol, to avoid double claiming and unwarranted taking of advantage of this program by participants, as has happened in the past.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers.
Ticket number.....................085-12876077-09
Serial number.......................51390-0
Lucky number...................03-05-12-14-28-38
Ref number...................N.EGS/3662367114/13

To begin your lottery claims, Please contact our Yahoo Lottery Co-ordinator as follows,

Email: yofficelottery@yahoo.com.hk
Name: Joseph Lee
Tel: +(66) 805530803

You are to send the completed verification form below to the co-ordinator whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!


1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADRESS.
4. DATE OF BIRTH
5. OCCUPATION
6. TELEPHONE NUMBER
7. SEX
8. FAX NUMBER
9. MARITAL STATUS
10. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.

Remember, all prize money must be claimed not later than 31th of May 2010.Any claim not made by this date will be returned to HER MAJESTYS DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. And also be informed that 10% of your lottery winning belongs to (THE PROMOTIONS COMPANY). Because they are the company that bought your ticket and played the lottery in your name.

Note also that this 10% will be remitted after you have received your winnings prize, because the money is insured in your name already.

NOTE: In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences with us, Furthermore, should there be any change of address, please do inform our coordinator as soon as possible. Yahoo lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! Registered user.

An original copy of your lucky winning ticket and your deposit certificate will be sent to you by Administrative Remittance Operation Manager of Siam City Bank Bangkok Thailand.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Once again from all members of our staff and thank you for being a part of our International Promotions program.


We wish you continued good fortunes.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Donaldson Chou
Vice President
Yahoo! Lotto Org.

Mrs. Akira Itsuki
Online Coordinator .
2010The Yahoo-Thailland Internet Promotions.
All rights reserved. Terms of Service - Guidelines.
"

Without wasting your time, as you can see, the recipient email address (which is highlighted by red) is blank. In other words, this was sent to many people so the sender "hidden" the recipient email address.

Besides, the email is totally informal.

Therefore, without further wasting your time to read such scam email, you can mark it as a "spam" email first if this email is in your "inbox". After that, you can delete it by empty your "Trash". Feel free to give me a comment about this topic. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.

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Harry Potter Foundation.(You have won £1,000.000.00 GBP)

First of all, let's see the content of the email.

"
From: Harry Potter Foundation<info_101@hfoundation.tk>
To:
 
Harry Potter Foundation.
Customer Services Department
83B Geffrye Street
Potters House, Smt 4Ei
UNITED KINGDOM.
E-mail: info_101@hfoundation.tk
Website: www.harrypotter.com
Ref: HPF/9411X/05
Batch: 026/05/WY83.


This Message is to inform you that you have won Ј1,000.000.00 pounds on the ongoing
The Harry Potter Foundation lotto draw & held in England Wale as part of it bailout plans to assist
individuals and companies in this recent Global Economic melt down and your email address has just
been nominated for it (Ј1,000.000.00 Pounds Sterling's).


For processing and collection of your funds, Ј1,000.000.00 GBP (One Million Pounds Sterling).
You are to contact The Human Resource manager { Mr Scotty Moore } and Quote your reward
and identification number stated:{ Batch Number: HPF 09102XN Reff Number: HPF09788 }.
You are to fill out the information below for immediate process and collection of your reward prize.

YOUR WINNING INFORMATION FORM:
Full Name:
Address:
Occupation: 
Country:
Telephone:   
Fax Number:
Sex:         
Age:
NAME OF PROMOTION:.........
Your Qualification Number is: (A-129-199, S-01-06)
-----------------------------------------------------------
Human Resource Manager:
Mr Scotty Moore.
Phone:  (+44)-704-57-17315
            (+44)-702-406-0689
E-mail: scotty-harryfoundations@hotmail.com

Yours truly,
Dr . Robert  Millar
Copyright ©HARRY POTTER FOUNDATION UK. Rights Reserved."

Obviously, this is a scam email. As you can see, the email of the manager is a FREE account from HOTMAIL. In other words, you and I can also send something like this any time.

Without any hesitate, I recommend you delete this kind of email immediately. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.

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YAHOO!-MICROSOFT FINANCIAL: YOU HAVE WON £1,000,000

The content of this scam email is shown below:

From: Yahoo!  <jim@shamanik.com>
To: info@info.com

"YAHOO!-MICROSOFT FINANCIAL
PROMOTIONS DEPARTMENT UK.
REF:MICRO-YAHOO7/315116127/27
BATCH No:15/623/UK.
Registered Lottery No: 220949.


We hereby announce the official notification of the results of the
Yahoo!-Microsoft Financial Promotions held this Month in which your
e-mail address emerged winner.Your e-mail address attached to ticket
number 883734657492-5319 with serial number 7263-267, batch number
8254297137,lottery ref number 7336065782 and drew lucky numbers
14-22-28-37-40-44 which consequently won you the cash prize in the 1st
category, you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of
?1,000,000.00 (i.e One Million United Kingdom Pounds).Please note that
this Promotional Programme tagged "Thanks for contributing to our
financial Sucess" was sponsored and organized by the Yahoo! Microsoft
Corporation in view of the Financial benefits YAHOO! have received from
its numerous customers either through adverts, hosting and personal
emails.



The reason this lottery was organized is to thank the numerous public
including users and non-users of YAHOO! MAIL for the financial benefits
THE YAHOO! MICROSOFT CORPORATION have received as a result of their
Patronage last Year.This Lottery is approved and licensed by the
International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR). This lottery is the
first of its kind organised by YAHOO! MICROSOFT In view of this, your One
Million United Kingdom Pounds (?1,000,000.00) would be released to you by
the claims office here in UK. The reason this lottery was organized is to
thank the numerous public including users and non-users of YAHOO! MAIL for
the financial benefits THE MICROSOFT-YAHOO! CORPORATION have received as a result of their Patronage last Year.


For processing and remittance of your winnings, Beneficiaries who have
previously received this notification letter are advised to once again
contact their assigned Remittance Director with his new email address
below;


Contact Info:
Mr.Williams Hollen

Yahoo Office

Remittance Director
Yahoo!-Microsoft Promotions Unit.
44 Moorfields London EC2Y 9AL UNITED KINGDOM
Email:liveint@live.co.uk


APPLICATION FOR PRIZE CLAIM
(Receipt Official Notification Letter)
FULL NAMES................................
CONTACT ADDRESS......................
COUNTRY....................................
SEX:...........................................
AGE............................................
MARITAL STATUS.........................
OCCUPATION..............................
NATION ALITY.............................
TELEPHONE NUMBER....................
HAVE YOU A PASSPORT OR LICENCE(Proof Of Identity):
BATCH NUMBER. ........................
REFERENCE NUMBER...................


Once Again Thanks For Contributing To Our Financial Success!!!


Yours Sincerely,
Steve Ballmer
Chief Executive Officer
Yahoo!-Microsoft Corporation"

Without wasting your time, look at the highlighted(red) information, then ask yourself, why the Yahoo! officer use hotmail address?? and what is this shamanik.com ??

Please post a comment here if you received this kind of email. If you found the reference number is same (highlighted with yellow), then we can 100% ensure this is a SCAM EMAIL.


Updated: 11 August 2010
This is the latest similar spam email except the sender email is different compared to previous one.
The content of this spam email is shown below:

URGENT! PLEASE REPLY IMMEDIATELY

From: Yahoo!<livetech@live.co.uk>

To: info@info.com

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE MONEY.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Yahoo! Financial
promotions held this month.Your e-mail address attached to ticket number
883734657492-5319 with serial number 7263-267, batch number
8254297137,lottery ref number 7336065782 and drew lucky numbers
14-22-28-37-40-44 consequently won you the cash prize in the 1st category,
you have therefore been approved for a lump sum pay out of Ј1,000,000.00
(i.e One Million British Pounds).Please note that this Promotional
Programme tagged "Thanks for contributing to our financial Sucess" was
sponsored and organized by the Yahoo! Corporation in view of the Financial
benefits YAHOO! have received from its numerous customers either through
adverts, hosting and personal emails. The reason this lottery was organized
is to thank the numerous public including users and non-users of YAHOO!
MAIL/MICROSOFT for the financial benefits THE YAHOO! CORPORATION&MICROSOFT
have received as a result of their Patronages.This Lottery is approved and
licensed by the International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR).
This lottery is the first of its kind organised by YAHOO!. In view of this,
your One Million British Pounds (Ј1,000,000.00) would be released to you
by the claims office here in United Kingdom.

PLEASE REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE MONEY.

For processing and remmitance of your winnings, you are required to
contact our designated claims agent with the following underlisted
informations:FULL NAMES,CONTACT ADDRESS,COUNTRY,SEX,AGE,OCCUPATION,TELEPHONE NUMBER.

Congratulations once again, from all members of staff and thank you for being part of our promotions program.
TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE OF Ј1,000,000.00?,PLEASE REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY.

To sum up,  I am 100% guarantee this is a SCAM EMAIL.

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Scam Email: MICROSOFT 36th AWARD NOTIFICATION (2010)

The content of email is shown below:

"Your e-mail address winning details:
B. NO:  MSVC/AWD36/2010
E. NO:  MSVC/AWD36/CLM/1-20

AWARD NOTIFICATION
It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the 36th edition of official publication of results in the E-mail electronic online Award organized by Microsoft® in conjunction with Visa® Card and confirmed by our co-sponsor Msn® International through their latest internet software.

The online cyber draws was conducted from an exclusive list of over 5,000,000 email addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer selection from the web. (NO TICKETS WERE SOLD).


This promotion was set-up to encourage the active users of the Internet Microsoft Windows. Where in your email address emerged as one of the 20 online Winning emails in the 2nd category and therefore attracted a cash award of 500,000.00 GBP (Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Sterling).

Your prize award has been insured with your email address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirement of the promotion award board authority, which includes your statutory obligations.

We write to officially notify you of this award and to advise you to contact the processing office immediately upon receipt of this message for more information concerning the verification, processing and eventual payment of the above prize to you.

For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims are processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements. Please be warned.

CONTACT CLAIMS OFFICE:
Microsoft® Visa Card Promotion
Email: msvcoffice82@gala.net
Phone1: +44 702 403 7803
Phone2: +44 702 405 8821

Do e-mail the Claims office at once with all the claims requirements below to avoid unnecessary delay.

PAYMENT PROCESSING FORM:
1. Full Name:
2. Address:
3. Nationality:
4. Date of Birth:
5. Occupation:
6. Sex:
7. Phone:
8. Fax:
9. Your Preferred Mode Of Receiving Your Prize(From Below):

MODE OF PRIZE REMITTANCE:
(1) Cash Pick-Up (You coming Down to United Kingdom Personally to Pick Your Prize).
(2) Courier Delivery Of your Certified Winning Cheque Name and other Winning Documents safely to you.

Microsoft believes in your right to privacy. Your information is 100% secure and protected and will be used exclusively for the purpose of this promotion only.

We will get back to you from the claims office after proper verification for further instructions on your claims process.

Congratulations!

Dr. Elizabeth Robinson,
Coordinator
Microsoft® Visa Card Promotion


Disclaimer: This email and any attachments to it contain information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information contained in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this email in error, please return it to the sender and delete the email from your records."

Now, let 's see why this is a scam email.

1. The receiver's address is blank.
2. The contact is Email: msvcoffice82@gala.net

As a result, without wasting your precious, you can click delete now^^.

To conclude, never give your detail via non-official email address for the sake of safety. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.

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Final Warning!: Yahoo! will be shuting down all unused accounts (Scam Email)

From: Yahoo! Mail <verification.database@yahoo.com>

"Dear Valued Member,
We are really sorry for any inconvinience this might cause you. Due to the congestion in all Yahoo! account users, Yahoo! will be shuting down all unused accounts. In order to avoid the deactivation of your account, you will have to confirm your e-mail by filling your Login Info below by clicking the reply button.
Username: .........................................
Password: .........................................
Date Of Birth: .....................................
Occupation: .......................................
Country Of Residence: ........................
After you must have followed the instructions on the sheet, your Yahoo! account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thank you for your usual co-operation. We apologize for any inconvinience.

Regards,
Yahoo! Account Services
------------------------
We are really sorry for any inconvinience this might cause you."

First of all, please look carefully at the sender's email address
"Yahoo! Mail <verification.database@yahoo.com>" and it does not consist of Yahoo! Official Logo. Read more about Yahoo! Official Logo.

In other words, this email address is a normal email address which you and I can create one in a second.

Therefore, without wasting your precious time and worry about your account will be deleted, you can delete this scam email immediately. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.

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Payment by Mcdonalds Promo House Malaysia: Scam & Spam email

This is to officially inform you that you have been selected for payment by mcdonalds promo house malaysia.

Please find enclosed your payment details. Kindly complete and submit immediately to collect your cash prize!


Congratulations!


Managment.
Mcdonalds Malaysia.
00-601-2656-1229"

Again, this is another spam plus scam email in my mailbox today. However, I hope this post can help other people to avoid falling a trap.

So, why this email is a scam??
1. It is totally non-official email but the email said "This is to officially inform you that ...."
2. What is the manager name??
3. What is 00-601-2656-1229 means??

Next, let's see the attached as shown below:

"
WINNERS ONLY
C\ Don Jaime I nº11 2º
50.003 Zaragoza
WORLD WIDE
Ref: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch: 92/234/03889

April 25th 2010


Dear Lucky Winner,
 
THE MC DONALD'S SEASONAL PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNING NOTIFICATION.

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the just concluded annual final draws of McDonalds Annual Promo.

The online McDonalds KL, Malaysian Annual Promo draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy.

After this automated computer ballot, your e-mail address emerged as one of twelve winners in the fourth category for the second prize with the following data:

Ref Number: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN

Batch Number: 92/234/03889

Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750

You as well as the other winners are therefore to receive a cash prize of £1,350,000 (ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS ONLY) each from the total payout.

Your prize award has been insured with your e-mail address and will be transferred to you upon meeting the requirements, statutory obligations, verifications, validations and satisfactory report.
 To begin the claims processing of your prize winnings you are advised to contact our licensed and accredited claims agent/security company
for SECOND category winners with the information below: You are also advised to give the following information’s to the claim's agent via email

1. Full name and address:
2. Country:
3. Tel and fax number:
4. Occupation:
5. Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:
6. Age:

Dr Harry Hector,
MCDONALDS PROMO CLAIMS AGENT
Email: mcdonalds.malaysia@live.com.my
Phone: 00-601-2656-1229

NOTE: All winnings must be claimed within 20 days from today. After this date all unclaimed funds would be included in the next stake.
Remember to quote your reference information in all correspondence with your claims agent.
You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your reference and ticket numbers. (This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained).

Members of the affiliate agencies are automatically not allowed to participate in this program.

Thank you and congratulations!!!
Yours faithfully,
Azmir Jaafar,
Managing Director McDonalds Malaysia."

Note: This is just a spam email.( It does not consist of receiver's name, address etc ).

Next, although the name of Managing Director is correct, why such big company need to used live mail address??? mcdonalds.malaysia@live.com.my. 

Lastly, please let me know if you have similar Ref Number, Batch Number and Ticket Number as shown below. It is very useful for us to once again verify this email is a scam email.
"
Ref Number: EAASL/941OYI/02/SHYN
Batch Number: 92/234/03889
Ticket Number: 025-11464992-750
"
Based on my experience, most of the spam emails do not change this kind of number.

To sum up, although the sender's email is very convincing, "Mcdonalds Malaysia <info@mcdonalds.com.my>",  we have sufficient evidences to proof this is a scam email, that is, based on the email address of sender and receiver.

That's all for today. More fascinating articles and sharing will be updated from time to time in Xaivier Blog. Therefore, you are welcome to subscribe our feed, look at our sitemap or simply visit our Homepage.

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Note:
- I have drop an official email to Mcdonalds to double verify this scam email. The reply will be posted ASAP.
- Good news for all my visitors here. Eventually, I have received an reply from McDonald regarding this scam email. Feel free to take a look at the post at McDonald's Seasonal Promotion - email scam  (10/08/2010))

First edited at 29th Jan 2011 - Reason: To make it more reader-friendly.

Warning: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation NR.81118. Spam. Scam

Again, this is the third scam email which I received within 2 weeks, (Previous post: "Warning: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Support. Spam. Scam" and "Warning: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Message. Spam. Scam")

The title of this spam email was have a little difference from the previous ones. Again, the recipient's email address is not mine and the sender's name was changed to Facebook Networks. Without wasting time on this silly spam email, you can read more about how I analysis and prove this is a spam email at my previous post with title "Warning: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Message. Spam. Scam".

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Warning: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Support. Spam. Scam

Again, after the post at "Warning: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Message. Spam. Scam", one more scam from "Facebook" I had received now... I was wondering that why such silly people like to spam innocent people like me.




This spam email is almost exactly same to the previous ones except my email is bingo and the sender from Contact Facebook to Facebook Manager. Who knows, maybe next time I will receive an email from Facebook CEO...

To read more about how I analysis and prove this is a spam email, please go to my previous post with title "Warning: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Message. Spam. Scam".

Good luck and have a nice day.

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Warning: Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Message. Spam. Scam

After "8 ways to verify spam email & avoid cheating (Verify your Account To Avoid Suspension)" which I had post last few days, I have received one more dangerous but stupid spam email today. As usual, let me shown you why this is a spam email which you can delete it after mark it as a spam mail.

1. As you can see, the title of this spam email is "Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Customer Message". However, this is not a confirmation email at all.

2. The receiver's email is not my email address.

3. As a giant network provider, Facebook, which will never send such low standard and informal email. Formal email should includes company trademark, terms and conditions, policy and so on.

4. The attached is a zip file which can be used to stored virus easily so it is very dangerous.

5. Who is "Your Facebook"??

6. This spam ever don't know who am I. I mean my user name.

7. Last but not least, I do not have personal Facebook account now. Therefore, I can 100% confirm that somebody is trying to spam everyone randomly!!!

Although the sender's email address is very convincing, Contact Facebook , obviously, this is a dangerous spam email which seems consist of virus or spyware.

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8 ways to identify spam email & avoid be cheated(Verify your Account To Avoid Suspension)

Today I have received an email from "Yahoo!" with title "Verify your Account To Avoid Suspension", which required some private information from me. Besides that, they said that if I didn't reply them within 24 hours, my favourite Yahoo! account will be suspended!!! However, after I oversee this email several times, I have successfully verify and justify this email is a spam email, again. Eight ways, which I have used to justify this spam email, are shown below:

1. Firstly, let' check the email box as shown above, the spam email did not have the Yahoo! official logo.

2. Next, according this spam email:
"Due to the congestion in all Yahoo users and removal of all unused Yahoo Accounts,Yahoo would be shutting down all unused accounts,You will have to confirm your E-mail by filling out your Login Info below after clicking the reply button, or your account will be suspended within 24 hours for security reasons."
Yahoo! will automatic disable inactive Yahoo! Accounts. Inactive Yahoo! account means you did not sign in your Yahoo! account more than 6 months. Note: Please to check for latest period to define inactive account.

3. As a rule of thumb, Yahoo! NEVER ask user's Password!!!


4. something@yahoo.com is opened to all people to register it. The source of this email is not convincing!!

5. The contact date: 2010-12-12. What is this mean??

6. The latest Yahoo! copyright is "Copyright © 2007".

7. Official email should states "All rights reserved." and "Terms of Service."

8. Last but not least, this email consists of other website link, that is, "http://survey.confirmit.com", which is a marketing survey provider. Obviously, someone is using this service to accumulate people email password for illegal purpose.

To conclude, this is very hard for hardworking and calm person to be cheated. Next time, when you have received some urgent email like this, please calm down, do your homework, and ask a favor.

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