I received a mail, its about a lottery and it claims that i won.is it real or fraud?

Question

well this is a part of the mail that i received

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! YAHOO LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of GBP £SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING (Gbp £600.000.00) for the YEAR 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC for the introduction of the new YAHOO BETA MAIL which all YAHOO users are required to switch onton to the whole wild world.

YAHOO! & MICROSOFT WINDOWS and OTHERS, arrange and gather some of all the e-mail addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail, and others we only select EIGHT (8) candidates per annually as our winners through Electronic Balloting System (EBS) without the candidate applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected as lucky numbers:(-02-06-21-34-35-49-(46-)"bonus no 46. which subsequently won"you the lottery in the 2nd category i.e. match 5 plus bonus.

Answer 1

SCAM!!!!

Answer 2

It is fraud, I received the same e-mail about a month ago.

Answer 3

Fake as all h**l! I get them at least once or twice a week.

Answer 4

19G30 has a point. Of course it's fraud, especially since you didn't enter it!

Answer 5

IT'S A FAKE ..........

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO EARN MONEY

           ONLINE BY JUST SPENDING 5 MINUTES DAILY .

HERE IS THE LINK WHICH  DOES ALL,

http://www.makemyclick.com/index.php?r=V...

JUST CLICK AND REGISTER IN IT , FOR FREE...

       FOR THE FIRST  TIME login

         THEY PROVIDE YOU WITH $5.00 , AND FOR EVERY ADS YOU VIEW     YOU  WILL EARN A $0.5

SO JUST GIVE IT A TRY AND SEE BY YOURSELF

Answer 6

No Good. Don't go for the oakie doke.

Answer 7

What a CROK!!!!

Answer 8

I am thinking that it is fraudulent!! Is there a phone number on it you can call? Just make sure not to give out any of your personal info (bank account #'s etc)

Answer 9

i got the same email

i also got a email from africa saying i am a relative of some dead guy and i need to get his funds

FAKE!!!

Answer 10

Congratulations!!!!!    You just won again!!!!!!!!!!

Just send me the following:

-Name

-Address

-SSN

-Bank Account #

-Visa Card # (Don't forget the 3 digit code on the back)

-Car Title

-ATM Card and PIN

Answer 11

THIS IS FAKE! don't reply! i got one of these but it wasn't like this. it was from like dr.... something. i forget but that is still really fake

Answer 12

it's junk. don't reply back, hackers most likely. They do anything they can to scam people.

If you're reeeeeeally interested and still want to know more about how "real" it is, contact yahoo and ask them directly.

I'll bet they'll tell you the same thing I did.

Answer 13

Fraud. There were several articles written sometime ago exposing them.

Answer 14

Spam it!

Answer 15

Fraud, fraud, fraud, FRAUD.

They'll try to squeeze you for "fees" and whatever else they think you might fall for that will get you to send them money, all the while dangling the nonexistent big payoff in front of you, in order to keep you reaching into your wallet.

Answer 16

fraud..did u get yahoo lottery, how they know you won

Answer 17

Ask Yahoo

Answer 18

Did you buy a ticket ? If not its a fraud. Simple as that.

Answer 19

This is a scam you have not won anything.

Answer 20

You know it's fake when they start asking you for money.

Answer 21

Definitely fake...I got a similar one... I played along went back and forth for days, as soon as you don't send in info or ask questions you don't hear from them anymore.

Answer 22

There are many spelling mistakes. A total fraud. Yahoo doesn't do a lottery.

Answer 23

Most definitely fake.

Answer 24

Give me half, but its fake so give me half of nothing

Answer 25

No you really won, open it up and enjoy your prize!!!

Answer 26

Real.

Answer 27

it's rubbish... delete it..

Answer 28

THIS IS FAKE. Don't ever respond to these things.

Answer 29

That is spam yo. Check out snopes.com when you get stuff like this. They are good at debunking rumors.

Answer 30

fraud

Answer 31

Congratulations!