I got the yahoo lottery mail is it real?

Question

I go the yahoo lottery mail, Is it trustworthy,

I pasted this content which mailed me by [e-mail]

Can I trust him or not?

Can Any body give advise pls.

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Yahoo! Inc.

Customer Care .

701 First Avenue

Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

USA.

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Six Hundred and

Fifty Thousand (US$500,000.00 ) in the YEAR 2008/2009 YAHOO! Lottery promotion

which is organized by YAHOO! LOTTERY INC for the introduction and Launching of

the new YAHOO ! BETA MAIL which all YAHOO! subscribers are required to switch

to.YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, arranged and gathered all the e-mail addresses

of the people that are active online, among the Millions that subscribe at

YAHOO!, HOT MAIL and Others. We only selected THREE (3) candidates as our

winners after undergoing the random selection process through electronic

balloting System (E.B.S) without the candidate applied, we congratulate you

for being one of the people selected with your email address.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

You are to contact the Claim Agent Rev. Barrister Barry Wright who will issue

you a clearance paper as a winning certificate approved and certified from our

Regional office in West Africa Nigeria. and your prize money will be released

to you from any of our regional promotion banks as directed by the claim agent.

YAHOO! Beta Lottery Prize must be claimed not later than 14 days from date of

Draw Notification in which Prize has been won.

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Answer 1

I don't think so.

Answer 2

It’s a scam thousands of these deceptive emails are sent every day there used to commit identity theft, or try to get you to send money.  DO NOT send any bank/personal details click the link below to see what yahoo say about this.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/or...

You can report this with the mail abuse form below.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...

And here is some advice from yahoo on how to deal with spam emails.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ya...

Answer 3

It is spam. I got several such emails, but not in yahoo. There are no of questions asked about this fraud.Even if one persons answered to the mails,as this, the sender will get benefited. Just delete it or report the matter as suggested in some answers. You can go to options and click mail headers and you can know from which place the mail was sent.

Answer 4

These are all spams.

Ignore them.

Do not take such mails seriously.

Mark them as spams.

Answer 5

Yeh those are spam mails .... just ignore  

Answer 6

It's a scam! ANYTHING that has to do with the lottery and AFRICA, NIGERIA is a scam!!!

Answer 7

its a scam...... i often get this kind of msg.just mark it as spam

Answer 8

This is realfraud.u dont trust this mail.all of lie.they cheat to u.take care.i get lot of mails i ignored this type of mails.

Answer 9

no its not real at all.