Is It Scam?

YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON 拢300 000!


Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 5 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us.We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (Three Hundred Thousand Great Britian Pounds sterling (拢300,000) for the month of August, 2007. Lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com every month.

YAHOO, collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected.All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the commmunities where they have operational base.
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 拢300,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

These are your identification numbers..........

Batch number.......................Lwh 09445
Lotto number........................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact our fiduciary agent company at this email address:
alfredanderson@rediffmail.com
You are required to forward him with the following details:
His name is: DR ALFRED ANDERSON
George Bala(Secretary)
Tel: +447024023278

1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10.MARITAL STATUS
11.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12 THE MONTH YOU WON........................................

As soon as you contact him,he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize(money).Congratulations once more!!

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize released to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid
double claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,



Dr WILLIAM GERRI
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com

Don't listen to those other people... You won it and now all you have to do is collect it and share half of it with me since I'm the only one who believes in you!




g-day!

Yes, it is one of the biggest scams out there. Spam it.

yep, i get those all the time. it sucks because everytime for about 5 seconds i get so excited and think i can finally get out of my parents house and get married. but then i realize people out there are monsters.

SSSSSSSSSS SPAM IT!

Let me think. You won a lottery you never entered? And all you have to do is send them a little money to cover the taxes and/or give them your bank account numbers to transfer the funds? Yup, sounds legit to me. Congratulations on your new-found wealth.

I would say yes, you need to play to win. Report the scam here

www.IC3.gov

Sounds like a scam to me. if it is a true Yahoo lottery, why does the so-called agent not have a yahoo e-mail account? Why would you have to e-mail the guy in the first place? If you won, there should be a place to go to get your prize.

Should you answer this SCAM, the next thing they will ask for is your bank account number OR they will send you a check and tell you to deposit it in your account and send them a certain amount of money via Western Union. The check will bounce and you will be out whatever you send them. You don't get something for nothing. Since you didn't enter this lottery, why do you have to keep your winning a secret?

It looks to good to be true. So it is. So it's a scam, with nothing to do with Yahoo. The amateurish writing style, with grammatical and punctuation blunders, is also a bit of a giveaway.

If you respond to this, you will find that you will be asked to pay administration charges before your 'win' is released, which is where the scammers rake in funds from their targets. You can try asking those awarding this amazing free bundle of dosh to deduct their administration charges from your winnings....