Is this winning 1.200000.00 British Pound legitimate, or scams?

Question

; &nb sp; Payment No. M30911

Date: May 30 th, 2008.

Lottery

PAY THE AMOUNT OF: ONE MILLION,TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS * £1,200,000 .00*

AUTHORIZED BY: YAHOO MAIL INC.

CONGRATULATIONS !!!!

JOSEPH SHAPAKA YOU HAVE WON £1,200,000.00 POUNDS!

YOU HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED AS ONE OF THE 12 TOP LUCKY WINNERS !!!

Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes ever month. Today, your account is randomly selected as one of the 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of (One Million, Two Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds ( £ 1,200,000.00 GBP) for the month of May, 2008 lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger .com every month.

YAHOO, collects all the mail addresses of the people that are online and offline on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected to receive top cash prize for this month. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.

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 winning details(e-mail address) falls within our GAMBIA representative office in BANJUL , as indicated in your play coupon and your cash prize of £1,200,000.00 GBP will be released to you from this regional branch office in THE GAMBIA .

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for £37 Million GBP international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

These are your Winning Information and Identification Numbers:

Batch Number........................ .........276/07/3647821

Winning Numbers....................... ....06,11,17,27,37

Reference Number.........................YLINC /768650/82

To begin your claims, kindly contact the Yahoo (Overseas) Payment Officer, Dr. Brian Hudson at this email address below.

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Dr. Brian Hudson (Overseas Payment Officer)

EGA - PROMOTION FROM

GUARANTY FINANCE & LOANS, GAMBIA.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

NATIONAL LOTTERY, U.K.

The National Lottery

PO Box 1010

Liverpool

L70 1NL

http://www.national-lottery.co.uk

EMAIL: [e-mail]

PHONE: Tel: [phone] (CALL AS IT IS, DON'T ADD OR REMOVE ANY NUMBER)

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You are required to forward your winning details via the above e-mail addresses.And note that you must send your information to the above offices for verification purposes.

1. FULL NAME.......................... ....................

2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN........................ ......

3. PRESENT ADDRESS....................... ...........

4. AGE........................... .............................. ......

5. OCCUPATION.................... ..........................

6. s*x........................... .............................. ........

7. TELEPHONE NUMBER........................ .....

8. MARITAL STATUS........................ ...............

9. BATCH NUMBER........................ .................

10. WINNING NUMBER........................ ............

11. REFERENCE NUMBER.............. ..............

As soon as you contact the Financial Controller, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money.

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 program by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Congratulations once again from me and all members and Staff of Yahoo Lottery INC!!

Yours Sincerely,

APPROVED

MADAM ROSELYN JONES (PHD)

LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.

The Yahoo.com staff

Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com

Loveth, Teresa and Ann were among three winners to share the Lotto Rollover Jackpot , each scooping a massive £3,000,000 Pounds.

NB: PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS NOTIFICATION MAIL BOX. MAILS SENT TO THIS MAIL BOX ARE NOT MONITORED AND CANNOT BE REPLIED. PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO YOUR AGENT AS INSTRUCTED ABOVE.

Congratulations from me and members and staff of The YAHOO LOTTERY INC

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Sent from Yahoo! Mail.

A Smarter Email.

Answer 1

Scam, of course.  Jeez, take a clue.

Answer 2

You must be having a laugh. This has SCAM written in sixty foot letters written all over it.Do not reply or send any details,you will be ripped off.

Answer 3

This is a SCAM. The below links confirm various email scams hitting the internet. There is also an online form for the reporting of such. - (with links for your own country.) This site also gives excellent advice on what steps you can take to achieve a spam free inbox :

http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/lo...

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

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. Please 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/

Answer 4

Come on, Do you really think this is real..There are so many stupid people in this country--look who might become the next president--he has ties to terrorism and he has a muslim name..Get real..our country is going down the tubes

Answer 5

yes its scam, same person sent email to me saying this on my hotmail account.

Answer 6

REMEMBER THIS:

If something is too good to be true, IT PROBABLY IS!

Over 1000000 people receive those messages daily. They are potential victims of scams trying to steal their personal data or their credit card information.

So, before you receive some offer 'too good to be true' consult here and in other online communities to get opinions because it might be one HUGE SCAM!

Answer 7

Sorry friend but there is no Microsoft, Yahoo or other e-mail lottery, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/nigeri...

http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showt...

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/email-lottery...

.Also If you go to the following site you will get some info on ID theft www.identity-theft.org.uk the iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful

Answer 8

Give me an S

Give me an C

Give me an A

Give me an M

What does that spell?

SCAM!