SCAM!!!

Dear friends or whoever is reading this...please take note, if you receive an sms telling you to check your yahoomail and that you've won money...it's fake. The email you will receive from mailprize65@yahoo.com will look something like this:

THE YAHOO! 2007 MAIL ALERT

CONGRATULATIONS: You have won $9,500 (Nine thousand five hundred US dollars) in the Yahoo! 2007 Mail Alert Programme. Your telephone number sequence was electronically selected for the Yahoo! Mail Alert on the Yahoo! regional telephone code extraction database on Saturday, 08 December 2007, 08:03:33 GMT. Read through this email to validate.

Yahoo! turned 12 years old on March 2nd 2007 and we celebrated the Yahoo! 10th birthday (a decade of online success) on March 2nd 2005, view the Yahoo! 10 years Netrospective Homepage- Yahoo Netrospective. To celebrate our 12th birthday (1995-2007) and show appreciation for the patronage, the Yahoo! Inc. team extended selections for the Yahoo! Mail Alert Prize Programme to international mobile phone users with SMS notifications delivered via specified mobile telephone networks. A limit of 100 (one hundred) valid mobile telephone number codes were selectively extracted through the Yahoo! Gateway Server link-interactions with specified Mobile Phone Service Providers. Selection is at random although only recognized Mobile Phone Service Providers were used for this year's programme with 100 lucky winners and cash prize wins ranging from $2,000-$15,000.

Along with 99 other lucky mobile telephone users around the world this year, you have joined the chain of winners yearly that share the experience and give testimony to our standard history of genuine prize wins. Selection is not based on the use of the Yahoo! Mail System. No processing/registration charges or any form of financial payments should be made to Yahoo! or any of it's affiliated consultants in the U.S, the programme is FREE.

The Yahoo! 2007 Mail Alert prize is shipped to recipients only as Cashier's Cheques. Your banking/other personal financial information not required (Your Credit Card information is not required).

Acceptance of the Yahoo! Mail Alert prize is optional, decision to respond to notification is at winner's discretion.

For confirmation and further information on FREE legal guidelines/support to claim your prize (in accordance with the U.S Lottery Act), a simplified claims procedure for 2007 will be delivered via internet based mail (email) to recipients.

Thank you

Sincerely,
The Yahoo! Mail team

Yahoo! Inc. positions itself as the leader in identifying, developing, implementing, branding and maintaining dynamic communication concepts through the utilisation of messaging solutions.

Rights to winnings belongs only to original owner of notified mobile phone or next of kin and no person or persons has any right to sell, transfer, assign, trade or in any way convey any right or title in respect of or in relation to winning rights or any part thereof.
The minimum legal age for the prize draws will be determined by the state or country in which you live.
The draws are void where prohibited by law.
Yahoo! reserves the right to cancel any and all prize draws at any time without obligation or prior notice, if any fraudulent act is suspected to be perpetrated.
You received the SMS Alert through the Yahoo! Mobile Secure SMS Gateway which connects directly and safely with the SMS infrastructure of specified Mobile Service Providers. This mobile phone alert was received by you as your mobile telephone number was included in the 100 Yahoo! Mail Alert prize winners list for 2007.

They even go through the trouble of providing an online digital certificate to give you a false sense of security...being doubtful when asked for a photocopy of my IC or driving licence I decided to call Yahoo Southeast Asia office located in Singapore to check. True enough, it's a scam...haiz...if only it's true than I will be USD$9500 richer...haha. Just glad that I found out soon enough and nothing is lost...