dear sir i recived that i got a prize from yahoo msger that i ger 1.25.000 doller, is right pls give me replay
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 (,500,000.00) for the month of JULY 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, 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. 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 African representative office in Nigeria , as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of
US,500,000.00 will be released to you from this regional branch office
in Africa.
We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of year
high stakes for US.3 Billion international draw.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification numbers…………………..
Batch number…………………*******
Code number…………………..*********
Winning number……………….*********
To begin your claims, kindly contact the BANK OF ENGLAND JUDICIARY AGENT AND YAHOO CLAIMES AGENT, DR. BARRY HENSHAW at this address 
panafriquelottery@yahoo.com) . You are required to forward him with the following details:
1.FULL NAME
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.PRESENT ADRESS.
4.DIRTH OF BIRTH
5.OCCUPATION
6.TELEPHONE NUMBER
7.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
8.MARITAL STATUS
9.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND CODE NUMBER.
As soon as you contact the Attorney, 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 programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.
Congratulations once more!!
Yours Sincerely,
Dr JOHN MULU(PHD)
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoo.com staff
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Come on now, have some fun with it, send em back some phony information and see if you can get them to leave their country with promises of a briefcase full cash to increase your chances of winning the big prize, give them the address to a police station you deem fit and then if they manage to not get into any trouble there reply back asking why they didnt show up when they were supposed to, and send them somewhere else saying they went to the wrong place.
I do like how they both claimed to be doctors though. Made me laugh.
If you are daft enough to believe in a lottery you have never seen advertised and have never bought a ticket for then go right ahead and give them all your details.
It’s a scam.
SCAM.
Spam.
Beware, looks like idenity theft,
Thats a huge scam, I would report it, Im sure your not the only one this freak tried to scam.
This is a scam
Do not REPLY
Do Not SEND any information
Do not SEND any money
Delete it from your computer and don’t send it to friends.
It is a scam! There is no Overseas Lottery International, YAHOO & MSN Lotteries, Yahoo online dept., UK (United Kingdom) Lottery, Netherlands Lottery, British Lottery, Thunderball Online Lottery in the UK, Australian Lottery, Spanish Lottery, Yahoo Lottery Microsoft Lottery (emmulating from the UK or anywhere else) or any other form of lottery you can win without buying a ticket. While some people might only copy and paste such email to their answer with a brief take on it, I will go into detail because I’m tired of this trash, as several of my friends have lost their a$$es to this scam. This is about as far away from legitimate as anything can get, whether it be a contest, promotion, or whatever.
There exists a certain form of immoral degenerate that trolls the internet searching for suckers who believe that they have gotten very lucky and won a lottery which they have never entered. They will probably entice you to send an advance fee to claim your non-existant winnings and if you do send this money, you can kiss it goodbye. The money will likely be en-route to Nigeria, a cesspool of fraud that has been the center of these types of fraud over the last few decades.
The best thing to do is to delete such emails immediately and to never reply to them. If you even reply, you risk having your email inbox flooded. If you call these people, expect to be harrassed over the phone at all hours of the night! In some cases, people who travel to claim their winnings in Nigeria are taken hostage, and in worse-case scenarios are killed when whoever is paying ransom payments exhausts their money supply. If anything online sounds to good to be true it always is buddy.
By the way, I have kind of become an anti-scam activists due to the fact that I have many friends who have had their identities and life savings stolen from them via these methods.
This is simply advance fee fraud (a prevalent type of fraud which continously asks for money to cover unforseen expenses) and is intended to drain your bank account, promising money that simply does not exist. Hopefully, this answers your question.
If you have any more questions, do a yahoo search on lottery scams, nigeria 419 scams, internet fraud, or advance fee fraud. You can also read more about this at http://www.secretservice.gov and http://www.419eater.com!
If you have lost money you should report it to the U.S. Secret Service at http://www.secretservice.gov
Now you know the basics of Advance Fee Fraud, a multi-million dollar industry that costs honest people their life savings everyday. Be happy you weren’t duped by this scam!
I hope this is helpful, because I could sure use a best answer! I would appreciate it!