is there any lotttory promotion scheme for yahoo members and could you tell me the genunness of details given?

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:06:48 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Yahoo Lottery Winning Notification!!!!
To: [e-mail]


Yahoo Lotto Promotion

77001 First avenue
Sunnyvale,california
U.S.A


Dear Sir/Madam

We are happy to inform you that you have won a prize money of Eight Hundred Thousand Us Dollar ($800,000.00) for the month of September lottery promotion which is organized by yahoo.

Every Month YAHOO, collects all the E-mail id's of the people that are online on yahoo amongs the Millions that subscribe to yahoo, seven people are monthly selected.
Our winners are selected through electronic balloting System without the winner applying.We are congratulating you for being one of the people selected for the month.

These are your winning identification numbers.....

Batch number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto number.......................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact Central Bank OF Nigeria for your Prize at [e-mail] before 24th of October 2006.Otherwise your prize will be returned unclaimed and will be donated to charity homes.
You are required to forward to the bank with the following details:

1.FULL NAMES
2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3.DATE OF BIRTH
4.OCCUPATION
5.TELEPHONE NUMBER
6.FAX NUMBER(IF ANY)
7.MARITAL STATUS
8.WINNING NUMBER,BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.
9.BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS WHERE YOUR PRIZE WILL BE TRANSFERED
As soon as you contact the Bank,the Manager will advise you on the procedure to claim your prize money.

NOTE: YOU ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO KEEP ALL YOUR WINNING CONFIDENTIAL TILL CLAIM IS MADE TO AVOID WRONG CLAIMING.ANY BREACH OF CONFIDENCIAL DISQULIFIES YOU FROM GETTING YOUR PRIZE.

Congratulations!!

Yours Faithfully,
Dr.Austin Owchor Finance Director,
Dr.Williams Elott Claims Agent,
Dr.Ronney Smith Head of Administration

Answer 1

This is a scam/fraud. Yahoo is NOT running a lottery. Don't you think they'd be promoting it, or at least have information about it somewhere?

If you do a search on "yahoo lottery' you'll see all the scam alerts out there already.

This is a scam that has been making the rounds for quite a while. Only twist is that they are using Yahoo name this time.

I suggest that you report the email to Yahoo using the report spam button or send to [e-mail]