regarding money?
I received a letter which Im going to copy and paste. Id like to know if this is a spam Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:09:14 -0300 From: "Yahoo Lottery" <yahoolottery@yahoolottery.com> Add Mobile Alert Subject: Congratulations You Won £800,000.00! Yahoo Yahoo Staff congratulates you!!! Messenger Yahoo! Lottery Results You won £800,000.00! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! Yahoo! Mail announce you as one of the 10 lucky winners in the ongoing Yahoo Lottery Draw held on the 4th of February, 2008. All 10 winning email addresses were randomly selected from a batch of 50,000,000 international emails each from Canada , Australia , United States , Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually,consequently, you have been approved for a total pay out of 800,000.00 GBP (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND GREAT BRITISH POUNDS STERLING ). 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 details(e-mail address) falls within our African representative office in Nigeria , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of 800,000.00 GBP will be released to you from Africa regional branch office in Nigeria. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE These are your identification numbers....................... Batch number.....................Lwh 09445 Lotto number.......................Lwh09446 Winning number...................Lwh09447 Yahoo!'s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows: You are advised to contact Mrs. Nancy Webster your claims agent. Name Mrs. Nancy Webster . CLAIMS AGENT Email: nancy.webster33@gmail.com You are to send the completed verification form below to our Agent in the Nigeria whose email address is given above so that you will be advised on what to do to get your prize money. Congratulations once more!! 1. FULL NAME 2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 3. PRESENT ADRESS. 4. DIRTH OF BIRTH 5. OCCUPATION 6. TELEPHONE NUMBER 6. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY) 7. MARITAL STATUS 8. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER. 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 programme by non- selected winner or unofficial personnel. Yours Sincerely, DR. BRIAN HUNT (PHD) LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR. The Yahoo.com staff Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo! Lottery Results Yahoo! Lottery is a free service that does not require you to be a Yahoo! registered user. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. or real??
Public Comments
- Just spam, click spam and delete. you could block them on messenger.To prevent those messenger notices: Click on messenger, top left on the messenger window then scroll down to preferences, click and scroll down to ignore list, click and in the next window tick ignore anyone not on my friend's list and click o.k.
- It's a scam and not from Yahoo!. Mark it as spam.
- i'm not being funny or anyfin but i fink there must b a catch!!!
- This is fraudulent. DO NOT RESPOND IN ANY FASHION.
