I have received this e mail today. How do we punish these rouges?

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:35:20 +0000 (GMT) From: "jully erison" <jullyerison@yahoo.co.uk> Yahoo! DomainKeys has confirmed that this message was sent by yahoo.co.uk. Learn more Subject: You won £500 000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! To: beta_award_program@yahoo.com You won £500 000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY Messenger CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON £500 000! EURO-AFRO-ASIA-SWEEPTAKE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY/Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Five Hundred Thousand Great Britian Pounds sterling (£500,000) for the month of March, 2008. Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com every month. YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected.All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base. Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our asain representative office in jakarta indonesia as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £500,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in jakarta Indonesia. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw. PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM You are to contact our Asian Location Claim Agent on or before your date of Claim. : barrister_s_fawaz@yahoo.co.uk TELEPHONE: +62 817766794,FAX:+62 216677822 Your Yahoo Prize must be claimed not later than 7 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Note: Any prize not claim within this period (7 days) will be forfeited. These are your identification numbers.......... Batch number...............AS-EB'S-440MD Re ff number................AS-EB'S-740CD Winning number.............AS-EB'S-9640AF File number................SAY-EB'S-554AIS You are therefore advised to send the following information to him to facilitate them and process the transfer of your fund without wasting time. Send your Identification Numbers/Your Personal Information to him immediately. 1.FULL NAME:................................ 2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:..................... 3.PRESENT ADDRESS:....................... 4.SEX:............................................... 5.DATE OF BIRTH:........................... 6.AGE:.............................................. 7.OCCUPATION:................................ 8.TELEPHONE NUMBER:................... 9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY):................ 10.MARITAL STATUS:................... 11.Batch number............... 12. Reff number.................. 13.Winning number.......... 14.File number................... 15 THE MONTH YOU WON............ As soon as you contact him,he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money.Congratulations once more!! For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this 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 programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Remember, all prize money must be claimed within 30 days of this notification. All funds not claimed on or before the fixed date will be returned as unclaimed and donated to charity organizations. Make sure you follow the instruction carefully. Sincerely, John Kremer Vice President, Yahoo! Mail (+44 7031860782) United Kingdom Zonal Co-Coordinator. Yahoo! Lottery Results Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! registered user.

Public Comments

1. Report it to Yahoo! as phising and they'l take care of it :)
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3. string them along and don't give them anything... waste as much of there time as you can. send them a virus.... and NEVER give anything to them.
4. This is info that I found about phishing in the help section of yahoo mail: There is no Yahoo! Lottery, and we would never send you information about a contest you never entered. That’s the definition of unsolicited: you never asked for it. It showed up out of nowhere. The message probably also displays two other hallmarks of fraud emails: it appears to be official (with company logos, even links), and it demands urgent action “to claim your prize”, or something similar. If you’ve received a message like “Final Notification: Yahoo! Mail Winner!” or “Your Email Address Has Won $XX million”, it’s a scam. Don’t reply to the email, don’t click on any links in it, and never divulge any personal information. Instead, click Spam. Yahoo! Mail will never request personal information in an unsolicited email. If you get an email that looks like it’s from Yahoo! but tells you you’re the winner of a Yahoo! Lottery or other contest – and it asks you to email personal information to claim a cash prize or reward – click Spam to dispose of it. You can also report this suspicious email by going to our Abuse Form and filing a complaint. Thanks! "Phishing" is a play on the word "fishing" — because perpetrators are "fishing" for your private information or trying to find ways to trick you into sending them money. Don’t be fooled! These deceptive emails are used to commit identity theft, charge your credit cards, empty your bank accounts, read your email, and lock you out of your online account by changing your password. Check out Yahoo’s Security Center for more information on email scams and ways to protect yourself.
5. I dont think Yahoo! would give away money like £500k. And news like that probably wont EVER come as an email(usually by phone). Dont tell the sender anything and report the email to Yahoo! immediately.
6. My wife got the same thing..
7. Under the info they request, state your occupation as "law enforcement". I bet they'll never contact you again. I get e-mails like this almost every day, I just delete and ignore them. But lately I've been trying to figure a way to reverse the scam back on them. Probably impossible since this money doesn't actually exist. But as another said, it would be fun to string them along and waste their time.
8. Good ol' first century flogging should stop them and their mischievous ways!
9. Oh Good Lord! This crap has been running on the internet for YEARS! It's SPAM. THere is no such person as John Kremer Vice President of Yahoo Mail in the UK, or anyplace else. There is no such thing as the Yahoo internet lottery. There is NO free money given away by Yahoo. Microsoft. MSN. Windows. AOL. The Easter Bunny. This is spam. This is spam. Spam belongs in spam, not copied here over and over and over every day.