Text of Yahoo! scam

The second credit-card scam to hit the Net in as many weeks was mass E-mailed to users of the Internet on Thursday. The letter mimicked a contest from leading Internet search company Yahoo! Inc. What follows is the text of the phony E-mail:

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From: contest_winner@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:33:50 -0500
To: contest_winner@yahoo.com
Subject: You are a winner from Yahoo!

Dear Winner,

You're the first person from our list of thousands, to win a FREE US Robotics 56K bps with new x2 technology, modem from Yahoo!. Yahoo! has been randomly giving selected internet users FREE 56K x2 bps modems. To show you, the customer, that Yahoo! will be showing up everywhere in the future on the Internet.

Our growing area has nearly doubled its popularity over the US in the past year, just from these contests alone! In order for you to receive your FREE 56K x2 bps modem from our company, we will need you to reply as soon as possible in this format:

Name: _______________________________
Address: _____________________________
City: _____________ State: ____ Zip: _______
Telephone Number: (___) ___-____

Also what version you need IBM or MAC: ____
We will need you to pay for the Shipping and Handling with your Credit Card Only. (To let us know that your 18 or over and also for safety reasons) For FedEx 2nd Day is only $12 dollars. For UPS GroundTrac is only $5 dollars. We will not charge for the shipping until the item is shipped.

Please have it in this format:
Shipping & Handling Type: (FedEx, UPS GroundTrac)
Credit Card Type: (VISA, MasterCard, DiscoverCard and American Express)
Bank Name: _______________________________
Credit Card Number: _______________________________
Exp. Date: __/__
Name that Appears on Credit Card: _________________
If you have received this message twice or more, it is because of a programming error. This whole system in automated, sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
Lawrence Fisher
Yahoo!