Okay, It was too good to be true anyway, I’ve made a call to Yahoo! Singapore and they left me a voice mail, silly me did not pick up the phone, anyway the lady said that Yahoo! did not do any grants, and after reading up on the many users who also experienced this it’s untimately points to a scam. If I’m not mistaken many Singaporean Singtel subscribers get the message saying they won $9500 and send in particulars to claim the prize. It’s looks so real that it even has a nortorization form from a system developed by Carnegie Mellon University (if I recall correctly). Even signature authorities are said to be involved with the mail correspondents. So it’s more or less a scam.
Yahoo uses another e-mail address or domain for their e-mails and are appended with xxx@yahoo-inc.com so the e-mailer sent was from a normal yahoo account. I have no idea what they are scaming about, the scarry thing is that they even have your mobile phone number.
There are many answers from the Yahoo! Q&A but there are no replies from any of the offical Yahoo! staff as such many are left in the dark and unknowingly perhaps some personal information has already been released to the masqueraders. The funny thing is that Yahoo! has not steped out and informed any users about this breach or scam. Perhaps Yahoo! has experienced a breach where they lost their customer personal information to a hacker or maybe Singtel database was breached to allow someone to start a scam. Currently from my knowledge only Singtel users who subscribe to Yahoo! mail are affected. I have not seen any with reports on other Telcos.
If there has indeed been a scam I think it would be good if Yahoo! can step up and inform the public about this matter. Hopefully no one has been cheated yet.
