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YOU HAVE WON THE YAHOO/MSN INC AND THE MICROSOFT WINDOWS LOTTERY OF £250,000.00Standard Header|Hide Pane
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Yahoo/Msn Lottery
Incoperation
Baley House, Har Road
Sutton, Greater London
SM1 4te
United Kingdom.
Hello Susan Swenson,
This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Two hundred and fifty thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£250,000.00) for the month of January 2007 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE.
YAHOO/MSN & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying,we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.
You are to contact the events manager on or before your date of Claim, Winners Shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Centre.
Yahoo/Msn Lottery Prize must be claimed no later than 20 days from date of Draw Notification after the Draw date in which Prize has won. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.
These are your identification numbers:

Batch number.....................YM 09102XN
Reff number.......................YM35447XN
Winning number...................YM09788
These numbers fall within your Location file, you are requested to contact the events manager, send your winning identification numbers to him,to enable him verify your claims.How ever you will have to fill and submit this form to the events manager for verification & direction on how you can claim your winning fund.
1. Full name..............
2. Contact Address........
3. Age....................
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Sex....................
7. Next Of Kin............
8. Zip Code...............
9. Occupation.............
10.Company................
11.State:.................
12.Country................
13.Nationality............
14.Your Reference and Batch number at the top of this mail:

(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Mr.James West
E-mail:microsoftwindows_claimsdept96@yahoo.co.uk
Phone Number:- +447024015653
Service Period: 1-4 PM UK TIME
Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Dr.James West
(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).

2007-02-01 14:58:51 · 11 answers · asked by susan s 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
NO
NO
NO
NO
It is stricktly against Yahoo's rule to "collect" and "record" e-mails!
2007-02-01 15:07:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A huge load of BS
If it walks like a duck
and quacks like a duck
IT'S A DUCK
2007-02-01 15:07:28 · answer #2 · answered by Crazymom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they don't do this. this is a skeam to get your info. if you call the nuber provided, when you give them the info they ask for, they are going to ask you for money to do processing and a bunch of other crap. they're just trying to steal your money. i had some stupid brit try that on me through yahoo last year. wanting $550 to process my winnings and such. what you can do is turn this in to yahoo and msn. yahoo will find out who owns the email account to turn it over to authorities..
2007-02-01 15:06:48 · answer #3 · answered by gas_indycar 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
this is a big scam! i got one of these emails once and time passed aand i never got my lottery prize
2007-02-01 15:08:46 · answer #4 · answered by Jack J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
!!! Remove your email address from the post ASAP or you will get more SPAM !!!
This one is SPAM. The more details you give them the easier it is for them to take your money.
2007-02-01 15:08:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
call the number in find out that some UK stuff
2007-02-01 15:04:44 · answer #6 · answered by the man the myth the answerer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No way you receive stuff like through an e-mail, big scam!!!!!
2007-02-01 15:07:43 · answer #7 · answered by Mightymo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
scam
2007-02-01 17:22:21 · answer #8 · answered by BATMAN 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a hoax, sorry.
2007-02-01 15:03:11 · answer #9 · answered by AK 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
this is spam
2007-02-01 15:02:55 · answer #10 · answered by Alicia 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋