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An Email with the Subject "INTERNATIONAL GRANTS/PRIZE AWARD" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:18:31 -0800 and has been classified as a Generic Scam Email. The sender shows as "Yahoo Inc.."<info@yahoo.com>.
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FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL GRANTS/PRIZE AWARD DEPTREF:YAHOO7/315116127/27 BATCH:15/623/UK. We happily announce That the draw (#568) of Yahoo Online Lottery Raffle Draw. Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 883734657492-5319 which subsequently won you the Yahoo Financial Promotions cash Prize. You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of Ј1,000,000(One Million Great Britain Pounds Sterling) in cash credited to file KTU/9023118308/03. To file for your claims, please contact our claims director Mr.Nicholas Brown who is incharge of the claims office in UK. Contact him for the claims of your One Million United Kingdom Pounds. You are to contact the claims officer with his office email address provided in the below details: Mr.Nicholas Brown REMITTANCE DIRECTOR YAHOO PROMOTIONS. UK44 Moorfields London EC2Y 9AL United Kingdom Email: n_brown@admin.in.th VERIFICATION FORM. (Fill and send to the Claims agent). FULL NAMES* CONTACT ADDRESS* COUNTRY* SEX* AGE* MARITAL STATUS* OCCUPATION* NATIONALITY* TELEPHONE NUMBER* EMAIL ADDRESS* HAVE YOU A PASSPORT OR LICENCE (identification on delivery)* Once again on behalf of all our staff, CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Yours Sincerely, Mr Donald Dunn, Online Promotions Manager, Uk Administrative Unit.