Could you tell me if the attached is ligit from Yahoo.com?
You won £1,000, 000 Yahoo Mail congratulates you!
Messenger
YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
YOU WON £1,000,000
Yahoo Mail gives members random cash prizes. Today, your account is randomly selected as the one of 5 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 Great Britian Pounds Sterling) for the month of JUlY 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 messenger, and other webmail users, among the millions that subscribe, 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 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 conglomorate of some multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the citizens in the commmunities 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 £1,000,000 will be released to you from this region.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year high stakes for US 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 our fiduciary agent at this email address: edwalters12@pisem.net
His name is Edgar Walters
George Bala(Secretary)
Tel: +447024072290
+447024072474
You are required to forward him with the following details:
1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADDRESS
4.SEX
5.DATE OF BIRTH
6.AGE
7.OCCUPATION
8.TELEPHONE NUMBER
9.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
10.MARITAL STATUS
11.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
12 THE MONTH YOU WON………………………………………………..
As soon as you contact the him, 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
LOTTERY CO-ORDINATOR.
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Sorry friend. If you did not buy a ticket remember this.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. http://www.scambusters.org http://www.scambusters-419.co.uk The iinternet is safe enough if you are careful but please answer nothing that you are doubtful about.Good Luck and be careful.
Hmmm, me thinks maybe not
idk.. well u should try it out i guess actually it looks kinda fake..
Total crap.
It’s a really common email scam. But let’s look at the obvious proof that it is fake. First off, we are expected to believe that Yahoo! gets together with some large unnamed multinational corporations and just gives £5,000,000 or $10,000,000 away every month to random email accounts? They claim this is for ‘social responsibility.’ Well that doesn’t really sound socially responsible, just giving large sums of money five random people around the world every month. Right there that sounds pretty dumb.
Then for the final bit they claim that as well as giving away £60m per year in ‘small’ prizes, they also have a high stakes draw for one billion dollars? Yeah right. Not even the lotteries give this much away. What kind of companies would get together to give away a billion dollars? For no reason? To random people. If this were true, don’t you think it would be advertised on TV or something? Why would a company want to anonymously give away a billion dollars?
No, the most likely explanation is this is a scam, and once you send your personal details to them, they will use this information to steal from you.