This mail is real?!?

From: "YAHOO!" %26lt;mailbot@yahoo.com%26gt;

Subject: YAHOO! WINNING NOTIFICATION (EASTER BONANZA)

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:00:08 -0400



You won $300,000.00 ! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!

Yahoo! Mail ONLINE BONUS LOTTERY WNNINGS.

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU WON $300,000.00



Dear Winner,



Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is

randomly



selected as the one of 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 (THREE HUNDRED



THOUSAND USD ($300,000,00) for the Easter Promotion which is organized

by



yahoo.messenger.com this year, Kindly visit http://lottery.yahoo.com/ .



Yahoo! collects all the mail ID of the people that are online on Yahoo!

mail, among



the millions that subscribe to msn mail, 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 even if you own

a yahoo



account or not.



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 Group 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 West Africa representative office in Lagos State Nigeria, as

indicated in



your play coupon and your prize of $300,000.00 will be released to you

from this



regional branch office in NIGERIA.



We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of

year high stakes for



US$1 Million international draw.



HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE



These are your identification numbers:



Batch number....................... 09445 YLB

Lotto number........................ 09446 YLB

Winning number.................... 09447 YLB



To begin your claims, kindly contact the Claims Manager



Dr. Terry Cole



Email: dr.terrycoleman@googlemail.com

Phone: 00-234-808-531-1127



You are required to forward him with the following details:



1.FULL NAME

2.COUNTRY AND PRESENT STATE

3.PRESENT ADDRESS

4.SEX

5.DATE OF BIRTH

6.AGE

7.OCCUPATION

8.TELEPHONE NUMBER

9. CITY AND ZIP CODE

10.MARITAL STATUS



As soon as you contact him, he will advise you on what to do in order

to get your prize



money.



Note: Remember you must contact your claims manager not later than

48hours of



Notification. After that all funds will be returned as unclaimed.



Congratulations once more!!



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 pro gramme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.



Yours Sincerely,



Dr WILLIAM GERRI

LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.

http://lottery.yahoo.comThis mail is real?!?
This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for 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…

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. 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/
i never trust that stuff.This mail is real?!?
No.

If you really won anything you would be notified by real mail not email.This mail is real?!?
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
I hope for your sake it's real! I would contact yahoo somehow and make sure it's real. Don't give out your info it could be a scam. Good luck!
Haven't ever gotten that one but it does sound like a scam to me. I am very wary of anyone who wants your personal info.
This is a phishing scam. They are trying to get your info for possible identity theft. I have gotten those before. If you were to submit your info, they would next ask for your bank account info. You can take a wild guess as to what they would do if you were to give them this information.
no it isnt. yahoo dont send mail from @yahoo.com addys for a start



secondly, if youve never entered a lottery, why would they tell you that youve won one?



and lastly - if you had entered one, they would have your personal details.



never give any personal details by email.



ever. report it as spam.
I'm sorry to tell you that the e-mail you received is a scam. The message sounds too good to be true because it is. There is no such thing as the Yahoo! Lottery. The same goes for MSN, Toyota, AOL, Coca-Cola, et cetera. None of these companies are giving away money to random Internet users.



Rather, scammers are collecting e-mail addresses from all over the Internet and bombarding them with these fake e-mails. If you reply to this scam e-mail, the con artist will soon ask you for money. There are many excuses for why the scammer wants money, but they're all lies.



Many scammers will tell you that you need to wire them money to cover "courier fees." When you do this, the scammer will come back soon to ask for more money. This will continue until you are either broke or wise to the scam. Either way, you have lost your money - and there will not be a lottery prize to collect at the end of this mess, either.



Some scammers will even go so far as to provide you with documents as "proof" that they are trustworthy. You might receive a scanned copy of a passport as identification. This is either fake or stolen. Seeing an ID proves nothing. And anybody with MS Paint and five minutes of free time can forge confirmation papers, lists of winners, or other such documents to convince victims that the lottery winnings are real. The scammers will try to make their cons look as genuine as possible so as to extract your money from you.



You can confirm that you've received a scam e-mail by doing one or more of these things:



* Open the company's official Web site in a fresh browser window. Yahoo!, MSN, et cetera will not have any information on their Web sites about their lottery drawings or giveaways. This is because these companies are not really giving away money. At the most, you might find a fraud warning on these official Web sites. This is an excellent indication that you're being scammed, as companies that *are* giving away money will promote this fact all over the place.



* Copy part of the e-mail and paste that into a search engine. Many known scam e-mails are collected and published at various anti-scam Web sites. These pages are there to help spread the word about these scams so that fewer people will fall for them. Use these free tools to your advantage: search parts of any suspicious e-mail you receive before you reply.



* Contact your local law-enforcement department. More often than not, somebody there is familiar enough with this widespread scam to confirm that it is not real.



You should delete the scam e-mail and forget about it. Reporting the e-mail account to the provider to have the box closed might seem like a good idea, but this can ruin an active law-enforcement investigation.



You can also warn people you know about these scams. The more people we all tell, the fewer potential victims these low-life scammers will have.



http://www.scamwarners.com is an excellent Web site for more information about fake lottery scams and other, similar cons.
well if it is true you might want to get rid of the identification numbers on this thing so no one can steal it. why dont you go to the website given and check if its real
It is a scam



my dad recieved it as well and gave him our info and then they wanted us to send them $1000 to send us our money.



http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/report/209…





http://www.onlineverif.com/?go=pages/pos…
there are a lot of lottery scams out there...better pass on this one. as they say, better safe than sorry.