Is the following email legit? Did it come from Yahoo?
You won 0.000! Yahoo! Mail congratulates you!
Messenger
YAHOO INTERNET LOTTERY
CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU WON 0.000!
YOU WON 0.000!
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 (Eight Hundred Thousand Us Dollar (0,000) for the month of DECEMBER 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 US0,000 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.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 Bank of England Fudiciary Agent at this email address (mr_mark_roni@yahoo.co.uk) Tel: +447024037138 and +447031821005. 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
6. FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)
7. MARITAL STATUS
8. WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
As soon as you contact the Attorney, 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
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This is Nigerian Email SCAM. They actually use Yahoo’s name to initiate contact. If you get in touch with them You will end up in deep trouble,
One word: SCAM
I don’t believe it and I wouldn’t advise you to believe it either. Ask yahoo in their tech support area but I doubt its real.
Total SCAM!!!
Don’t give out any personal information.
I just got your money, thank you ha ha
I send them the info they wanted and the number things you posted
I just got something from someone posing as Bank of America saying that I had to fill out some information or they will close my account. It even had an email address as @bankofamerica.
Funny thing is…I don’t have a Bank of America account. So be really careful of SCAMS!
This is what is called "Phishing". They try to get enough information on you to locate whatever bank accounts you have, after which they will clean them out. Do not respond to the Email, and I would notify Yahoo AND your Government AND the police, although there is probably nothing any of them can do.
Call, email, see what it’s about. Ask for written proof and numbers to call. But don’t give any of you’re personal info, like Date Of Birth or address until you are sure.
Congratulations?
I got one monday from Australia for 450,000.00 and it went in the trash the same day.