Scammers try to convince people that they have won a fake Yahoo! lottery

Ryan Knight, Community Manager at Yahoo! Mail, warns people not to fall for the last trick involving one of the company's products. A so-called Yahoo! Lottery, promising prizes worth £ 250,000 (over $ 450000), ask users to disclose certain personal data to a "servant" to get the sum.

In this case, it is difficult to believe that one cannot really say that "lottery" is nothing more than just a hoax. And it's not just because, generally speaking, what sounds too good to be true probably is, but because of the e-mail sent by scammers is written in such a broken English that it makes all other ill-worded texts employees by people who are looking for an easy buck to fall into the background.

A fragment of the text goes like this: "This is to inform you that your e-mail has won prize money of two hundred and seventy five thousand British pounds in a lottery promotion organized by Yahoo Lottery INC. for the introduction of all new Yahoo Mail Beta and Yahoo Male Classic as all Yahoo users are required to replace." For one, the text includes different spellings for the name of the company, including a version written in all capital letters, and with or without the exclamation point. Another easily noticeable typo is "price" referring to what should have been a "price" in the lottery.

But a few errors and inadvertences in the so-called "announcement" are actually quite hilarious. "Yahoo Male" is, of course, for one of the new products to be released by the company. In the meantime, the email address of the contact is by Google, Yahoo! S long time rival.

"While phishing messages are known for their poor grammar and spelling, this one really sinks to new lows." At the same time, he reminds people to keep their personal data for themselves, since no company would ever ask them to reveal it. Also, official websites should be accessible from their website and not through links that exist in the mail, adds the officer.