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Written by Will Smith
- Posted on Friday, 09 December 2011 00:16
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Trying to get USD $610m from a load of conmen ... good luck!
"Struggling net firm Yahoo has won a bumper payout from a lottery but may never see the cash swell its bank account. A US court has ordered conmen who ran a fake lottery using Yahoo's name to pay the net firm $610m (£388m).
The scam involved emailing people telling them they had won a prize in Yahoo lottery. Victims handed over personal details to receive cash prizes but had their bank accounts plundered instead.
Some of those caught out by the conmen handed over cash for supposed processing fees or postal charges for prizes that did not exist."
source: BBC
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