One should think that "Yahoo" them self's would filter out mails of this kind, I have not received anything like that ever and I am using it for more than 15 years with the same address, maybe your system got compromised...
I think Yahoo is normally pretty good at filtering things out but did get about 10 emails from the same company yesterday that made it through, reported as spam and did not get another from that company today. Shawn
The old ex Mum In-law lost almost 4 Grand to one of these Scams, I could not believe it when I found out about it, every week she was telling us soon all our money worries would be over, eventually it got the better of me and I asked my ex to talk to her Mother and get to the bottom of it, unbelievable that anyone would actually fall for it but yes, there appears to be one born every minute... O-| What REALLY pisses me is when it is a close friend or Relative that flips you and disappears, nowadays I just look at it that it was worth the money to get them out of my life instead of worrying about getting it back...