I have received the following email and i wonder if this is true?

Messenger Yahoo! 30TH March , 2007 Lottery Results You won 拢800,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!

Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo! 30TH March , 2007 Lottery Draw. All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually. Consequently, you have been approved for a total pay of 800,000.00 GBP (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING).

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British Representative Office in the United Kingdom, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of 800,000.00 GBP will be released to you from this regional branch office in the United Kingdom(UK).

Find below your identification numbers:
Batch Number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto Number......................

It is just a scam. It is a fairly common one.

Scam.

You cannot win any lotteries that you did not personally enter. Also, Yahoo does not run any lotteries. Such things are obviously scams.

I dont know if this is true but I can tell you this is the second topic that I have seen about somebody winning 拢800,000 in the past couple hours.

Millions of people got that same email. It's a SCAM, and a fake lottery is just one of the many gimmicks the spammers use to get you to open their emails and to get you to give them your personal information... or your money. By opening a spam mail, you could be unleashing a virus on your computer or alerting the spammers that your email address is an active one. This means you could receive a flood of spam mail (yes, even more than you get now... a LOT more) in the future. Never NEVER open mails from people you don't know and trust!!

delete it.