I just received an email notifying me as a winner of yahoo lottery. Is this for real? Please help me.?

Here is the email.
Messenger Yahoo! Lottery Results You won $400,000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!

Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw of the year 2007.

All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 500,000 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 $400,000 (FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATE DOLLARS).
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 British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of $400,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

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

Batch number.....................YLW 09435
Ref number..........................YLW 07446
Winning number.................YLW 04237
Yahoo!'s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

FIDUCIARY AGENT E-mail: barr.reagjack@yahoo.co.uk

You are to send the completed verification form below to the our Agent in the United Kingdom whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!!

1. FULL NAME:
2. COUNTRY :
3. CONTACT ADRESS:
4. TELEPHONE NUMBER:
5. OCCUPATION:
6. AGE:
7. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY):
8. MARITAL STATUS:
9. SEX:

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.

Yours Sincerely,


Dr. Kelvin Watts.
Lotto. Co-Ordinator.
The Yahoo.com staff.

This is a Nigeria scam. Yahoo/MSN, U.K. and Australian lotteries, football lotteries from the same counties, Global-Link, World Poverty, Microsoft, Free Lotto, which now seems to have it's own people answering gambling questions on this site claiming they have won which is a total lie, and hundreds more. I am a retired Police Officer that has years of experience investigating Internet scams and frauds. This is an old one. The common link to them getting your email is on line surveys. Yahoo does not give it's stock holders money away nor does it give it's email subscribers address's to lotteries. The only way to win in a lottery is to buy a ticket, if you didn't you could not possibly win. Here is the website of the 17 nation law enforcement task force that investigates cross border Internet crime. You may file a complaint there. www.econsumer.gov. Also go to www.ripoffreport.com and browse complaints and you will find many having the same doubts as yourself about these scams. Below is a typical scam and how they work it. They just go under a thousand different names. They are asking you to send a prepayment to collect your winnings and they want you to send it by a money wire service. Lotteries do not just pick your name out of thin air, and just so happen to have your email also. No Internet service provider gives their email list out to lotteries. If you did not pay to play you could not possibly win.

recieved letter of winning $65000.00 Pacific Player International lotteries,please contact claims agent miss linda strong at 204-951-7582. Second letter came with a check for the amount of $2,470.00 To deposited in my bank account for processing fee,a week later check cleared my bank. I contacted my claims agent over the phone she advise me to wire the balance of $2,341.00 to a Mr Edward Culwell in New York,New York.I called miss linda strong to advise her of the western union confirmation number,to date can not get in touch with linda strong just her voice mail, I know now that it was all a RIP-OFF and now Iam in the hole with $2,470.00 with my bank.... Please send HELP... THANK YOU VERY MUCH

I received a message like that this month and I contacted Yahoo, they said they have no relation with that message and they will follow it. At the same time after all I'm still receiving the same message and more with the same trick or little different. Report It

I dont think so... maybe it is a frod. ??

SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM

Hmmm, it sounds sorta fake and cheap, but it actually could be real... but with the personal contact information, it sounds like their trying to scam you. i wouldnt believe it, since something bad might happened. Well, Good luck deciding!!!!

I an not sure,probably like the rest of us. Before you do anything, contact yahoo anyway you can, and ask them. otherwise, this could be a fishing scam( a scam where they steal your identity and information)

This sounds very suspicious- never give out any personal information- this could well be part of an identity fraud scam.

Did you even enter such a thing?
Does Yahoo! even have a lottery?
Have you asked Them?

Should You Believe Everything You Hear? :
- Propaganda Can Be Deadly
- The Manipulation of Information
- Do Not Be a Victim of Propaganda!
http://watchtower.org/e/20000622/article...

The Internet---How to Avoid the Dangers
http://watchtower.org/e/20041208a/articl...

Looks like a scam to me.

gimmick

looks real, buts its fake alright