I have received an email notifying that I am a yahoo lottery winner.Is this for real?

Copy of email:
Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 5th lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw on 12th days of april 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 ( 1.000,000.00=POUNDS) ONE MILLION POUNDS ONLY

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the communities where they have operational base.

Further more your details(e-mail address) falls within our Spainsh representative office in Madrid Spain, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of ( 1,000.000.00=POUNDS) ONE MILLION POUNDS ONLY will be released to you from this regional branch office in Madrid.SPAIN


These are your identification numbers



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



CONTACT YOUR AGENT MR WILLIAM LUTHER



HAMVAN SECURITE S.A. MADRID ESPA脩A
Alberto Aguilera 15,280017 MADRID SPAIN
Tel: + 34 679- 031- 301
FAX:+34-911-817-666
E-mail:standardagent@aim.com
CONTACT PERSON MR WILLIAM LUTHER


You are to send the completed verification form below to the our Agent in the Madrid Spain whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do 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-selected winner or unofficial personnel.




DR. MAC ANTHONY
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com





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Of course it's not real! Yahoo doesn't run any lotteries! If they did, it would be all over the home page!

This is a scam to try to get money out of you for "fees" or "taxes", plain and simple. Only a rube of the worst order would be suckered in by this SCAM. Unfortunately, there are plenty of those rubes about...

No, it is not real.

Scam

YES. WOW you are so lucky.

No

Wanna buy some waterfront property in Az.???

Scam.

It's not wise to ever give out personal info on the net unless you're at a well respected website and even then I'd be extra cautious.

Did they ask you to send them any money...for any reason? If not, I don't know what the "scam" would be unless it is just to joke with people. It does say to keep this from public but for what reason?

absolutely. i received the same one about two weeks ago.