Is the below e-mail from yahoo or is it a scam.?

You won £800,000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you! YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON £800,000! Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winner’s accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won prize money of £800,000 (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS) for the month of November 2007 lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger.com every month. YAHOO, collects all the mail id of the people that are online on yahoo, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo 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. All participants 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 details (e-mail address) falls within our British representative office in United Kingdom , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of £800,000 will be released to you from this regional branch office in UK. We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE These are your identification numbers....................... Batch number.....................Lwh 09445 Lotto number.......................Lwh09446 Winning number...................Lwh09447 To begin your claims, kindly contact the Abbey Bank of London Judiciary Agent Dr. James Smith Email address: dr.jamessmith@hotmail.co.uk Email address: dr.smithoffice01@yahoo.co.uk Telephone number: +447031909170 You are required to forward him with the following details: 1. FULL NAME 2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 3. PRESENT ADDRESS. 4. DATE OF BIRTH 5. OCCUPATION 6. TELEPHONE NUMBER 6. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY) 7. MARITAL STATUS 8. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER. As soon as you contact your Claims Agent, he will advise you on what to do in order to get your prize money. 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 programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel. Yours Sincerely, Dr WILLIAM GERRI (PHD) LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR. The Yahoo.com staff Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get free emoticon packs and customisation from Windows Live. Pimp My Live!

Public Comments

1. 110% scam....... do not believe.......spam atonce and never respond and do not give them any type of info about your credit cards etc........ good luck.
2. This is a SCAM. Check out the below link for confirmation of various scams, including the famous Yahoo/MSN lottery scams and how to report them. http://www.hotscams.com/articles/759/1/Lottery-Scam-Yahoo-Awards-Center---Yahoo-UK-amp-Ireland/Page1.html 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/
3. You don't get anything for nothing, it's a scam do not answer do not give personal information.The following sites give more information. www.scambusters.org www.hoaxbusters.ciac.org www.scambusters-419.co.uk www.truthorfiction.com .Also If you go to the following link 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.
4. it is a scam and it is pretending to be from yahoo but yahoo do not do lottery so its fake also if you did not get involved with lottery online then you can be sure it is a scam never trust these emails,remember if they sound to good to be true then they usually are -jake