Winning online contests and lottery

Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against anonymous spammers who have been using its good name to phish personal information from users, or even charge steep fines to ship nonexistent lottery prizes. Maybe Yahoo will score one for the team and put a couple spammers behind bars, but we aren’t holding our breath for a […]

Yahoo has filed a lawsuit in new york against a group calling themselves “Yahoo Lottery.” The group has been sending out spam e-mails trying to trick people into believing they’ve won some type of lottery or prize.

The company that’s on the verge of losing the lucrative contract to run Ohio Lottery games to an upstart competitor filed a formal protest today, claiming that lottery officials unfairly lowered the bar to let the competitor vie for the bid.

eQube International Inc. is pleased to announce that the company has received its License to Manufacture Bingo Supplies, Devices, and Equipment from the Texas Lottery Commission, which permits eQube to commence sales of its products in the State.

Yahoo has filed suit against unnamed “lottery spammers” who tried to fool people into thinking that they won a prize from Yahoo so they’d share passwords, credit card numbers, or other sensitive information.

Internet company files suit in New York against unnamed “lottery spammers” who tried to fraudulently obtain sensitive data from Yahoo Mail users, it says.

Yahoo Inc. is suing spammers who send e-mails to users telling them they’ve won a lottery or a prize offered by the Web portal, the company said Tuesday.

Yahoo sues an unknown group of defendants it alleges operated a lottery scam that invoked the internet company’s name as a “coordinator.” Yahoo has no idea who the people behind the scheme are, but hopes to find out from third-party e-mail companies during discovery.

Yahoo is suing a group of unidentified companies and individuals loosely called the “Yahoo Lottery Spammers” for running e-mail scams that sought victim’s personal information and extorted money from purported winners. Yahoo filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on […]

Shot across bows of email relays. Yahoo is suing a group of unidentified companies and individuals loosely called the “Yahoo Lottery Spammers” for running email scams that sought victim’s personal information and extorted money from purported winners.