This is my question is it for real or a scam?

Yahoo Lottery


Incoperation


Baley House, Har Road


Sutton, Greater London


SM1 4te


United Kingdom








This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of FIVE HUNDRED


THOUSAND POUNDS STERLINGS(拢500,000) for the new year bonaza of MARCH


4TH 2008 Lottery promotion which organize by YAHOO %26amp; HOTMAIL LOTTERY INC


%26amp; WINDOWS LIVE.





YAHOO %26amp; HOTMAIL MICROSOFT WINDOWS in conjunction , collects all the


email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions


that subscribed to Yahoo we only select 15 people every Month as our


winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we


congratulate you for being one of the people selected.





PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM





You are to contact your Claims Agent on or before your date of


Claim,Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement


Centre.Yahoo and Hotmail Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than


15 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize


has won.Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.





These are your identification numbers:





Batch number.....................YHM09102XN


Reff number......................YHM35447XN


Winning number...................YHM09788





You are therefore advised to send the following information to


Fudiciary


manager.





MR.JAMES HAROLD


REMMITANCE DIRECTOR


YAHOO PROMOTIONS UK


Tel: # +44 704-571-3956


FAX # +44-871-247-6662


E-mail: nationalclaim241@gmail.com








1. Full name....................................鈥?br>

2. Country.................................鈥?br>

3. Contact Address.................................


4. Telephone Number................................


5. Marital Status..................................


6. Occupation..............................鈥?br>

7. Company.................................鈥?br>

8. Age ........................................鈥?br>

9. Nationality.............................鈥?br>

10.Sex................................鈥?br>

11.Next of Kin:....................................





For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning informations


confidential till your claim is processed and your money remitted to you.





Congratulations!! once again.





Yours in service,





Mrs Janet Jones


(Online co-ordinator)








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Search the Web | Search News|||This is a SCAM. The below links gives confirmation of various email scams hitting the internet, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them :


http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo鈥?/a>


http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or鈥?/a>


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/|||Rule #1: Does it sound too good to be true?


If it does, it's a scam.


Rule #2: If not too good to be true...did you enter it?


No? It's a scam.





Microsoft does not run a lottery.


Yahoo does not run a lottery.





Microsoft and Yahoo NEVER co-operate if they are not forced to.|||SCAM just hit the SPAM button do not open it just confirms your email address and you will get a lot more spam. Never give out your personal info to any of these places. Hope this helps!!!|||Must be a scam, I received the same.|||Why on earth do you people not read anything before you post another question about "Is it real?" This same dumb question is asked dozens of times a day in this same section by people who open spam email and then want to get free money for nothing. Ain't gonna happen. There is no such thing as a Yahoo - Microsoft - Live - Dead - Ugly - Pretty - Dumb or any other combination award, that gives away free money.|||Common sense ought to tell you it IS an outright scam. Just turn around and get this message spammed into the garbage immediately. Remember you'll never get anything out of this "bogus" lottery.|||Spam


Spam and bulk mails


Spam mails cancel


If u dont want spam mails


Go to options link on the yahoo mail page and then select mail options


Then under the spam section select 'delete spam mails' as immidately


Done no more spam mails for u


To see spam follow the same procedure and under the spam section select once in a month option


Blocking ids


To block a person from sending u a mail block his/her id


To do so go to options in the yahoomail page and then click on mail options


Under the spam tab and under the block adress option type the id u want to block and click on add


Then ciick on save and return back to ur mail page


To unblock a person from sending u a mail block his/her id


To do so go to options in the yahoomail page and then click on mail options


Under the spam tab and under the block adress option select the id u want to unblock and click on remove


Then clcik on save and return back to ur mail page