Yahoo Files Lawsuit Against Lottery Scammers

[Mousey]

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Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service


Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:30 AM PDT
Yahoo is suing 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 suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on May 16, court records show. Yahoo released a news announcement regarding the suit on Tuesday.

The lawsuit targets 25 unidentified companies and 25 unnamed individuals. Yahoo is trying to identify those responsible for ...

 

[Jasminebed]

Lottery scams & spams

Thanks for the useful link mousey. Seems Yahoo's beef is with the fact that they used Yahoo's logo and name in perpertuating these scams, but it is a start.

If you did not enter a lottery or contest YOU DID NOT WIN!

Don't click any links out of curiousity or respond in any manner, or your address will be even more valuable to other spammers.

Honoured that I am that I have been awarded large grants amounting to several thousands of $$/GB pounds/Euros, for both my humanitarian and ecological efforts, my humble nature prevents from giving out private details and accepting such grants. The odd trashbag to pick up garbage in the park behind me is within my philanthropic budget.

Check out

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for current info.

Oh, and if you get any of the Nigerian letters or other fraudulent schemes via phone/internet/or mail and reside in Canada, contact Phonebusters

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