Hi, I received this letter in my inbox and would like to know if it is a fraud case?

Yahoo/MsnLottery
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te
United Kingdom

Yahoo/Msn and Windows Live Emerged you as one of the 10 lucky winners
in the ongoing Yahoo/Msn and Windows Live Lottery Draw for the year,
2007. 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 out of
500,000.00 GBP (FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING ).

YAHOO&MSN MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the
people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to
Yahoo and Hotmail we only select Ten people every Month as our winners
through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we
congratulate you for being one of the lucky winners.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our British
representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play
coupon and your prize of 500,000.00 GBP will be released to you from this
regional branch office in UK.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers
Batch number..........YM 09102XN
Reff number............YM35447XN
Winning number..........YM09788

Yahoo!'s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual
property infringement can be reached as follows:

Fiduciary Agent:Mr.maxwell william
Phone: +44 704-5765-784
Email:maxwellwilliam_verificationunit@...

You are therefore advised to send the following information to the
EVENTS AGENT to facilitate them and process the COURIER of your money.

1. Full name
2. Sex
3. Country
4. State
5. Contact Address
6. Telephone Number
7. Marital Status
8. Occupation
9. Age
10.Next Of Kin
11.Zip Code

Congratulations!! once again.

This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them.
http://www.hotscams.com/articles/759/1/L...
Unscrupulous thieves have sent you this email and they are trying to part you from your hard earned cash. They will often ask you to call a premium rate number and keep you holding on whilst you rack up a huge phone bill. They are then paid a large proportion of this phone bill. They may ask you to divulge personal information about yourself or ask for your bank or credit card details. Do not divulge any such information under any circumstances. It is surprising how many innocent victims have been duped by these types of emails. Just remember the thieves who send them are very clever and extremely convincing. I suggest you delete the email and send it into cyberspace, hopefully along with the thieving scumbags who send them.
Check out these sites for further information :
http://www.scambusters.com
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

Yep...it's a scam.

An ongoing fraud.

General rule of thumb?

If it's too good to be true, it probably is.

(too good to be true that is)

scammarino good buddy

SCAM!! These things are always scams. Nobody is going to give you a fortune for doing nothing. Check it out on hoaxbusters.com or snopes.com. If you can't find it there, just look at the email. There are misspelled words, mangled sentences. why would they need to know your marital status to award you money? Or your occupation? Age? Next of kin? DO NOT reply to this or any similar email.

Stay AWAY with a barge poll They caught the guy in zzz uk Dont open anything you dont know where its source is ..!!

This is a scam. It's full of spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and they just happen to be asking for all the info someone would need to take over your identity. Ignore and delete, or see if Yahoo! has a fraud division. I'm sure they'd be interested, since it's their name getting dragged through the mud.

Ignore it, they will be asking you for 50 pounds processing fee
if you reply. It is some con artist trying to get rich quick.

I worked for a law firm a couple of years ago , advising a couple of people who had already sent money to the people behind a very similar scam. You didn't buy a ticket, so how can you have won? Furthermore, before you can get your hands on the money, they will request that you send a certain sum via moneygram or western union for exchange fees, or a handling fee etc. When you look at some of the names they use in correspondence, the individuals exist, but the scammers have just looked at the website eg for the national lottery online, and borrowed someone's name. If you get sucked in, expect to get confirmation from someone at a bank that 拢10,000,000 is held to your order in an account. This person is fictitious as is the account and the money. They might even pdf you a copy of the cheque. Look up national lottery sams in yahoo. There's info there from some of the people who collect info on them. And DON'T send them any money!

Scam

It is definitely a scam. Ignore it and delete, don't even open it.

Its a fraud.

i get them all the time /i've had that one /dont answer and wipe them off

Hi it's a problem we all have. The only solution I have found is to have a seperate e-mail address which I only give to trusted contacts. I change this every so often.It stops the spam for a while at least. I If you allow e-mail on Yahoo answers anyone can get your address. Good luck and hope this helps.