Is this a fake lottary?

Question

WINDOWS MICROSOFT LOTTERY BOARD
Envoyé : mardi 27 février 2007 08:17:06
Objet : YOU HAVE WON THE YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LOTTERY OF £500,000.00

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Yahoo/Msn Lottery

Incoporation

Baley House, Har Road

Sutton, Greater London

SM1 4te

United Kingdom.


This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Five Hundred thousand, Great Britain Pound Sterlings(£500,000.00) for the month of Febuary 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 10 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 are at the top of this mail:


(CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER)
Name:Mr Smith Wallace
Email: [e-mail]
Phone Number:[phone]

Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Lillian Hunt

(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).

Answer 1

Yes fake...
Never trust email scams

If anything it is more likely a chain letter.

Answer 2

Would Mircrosoft, which owns one of the largest e-mail systems in the world - msn - be getting its e-mail at a competitors site (hotmail)?

Would Microsoft be using a free, throwaway, unsecure account from another company to transfer away millions of pounds?

Would Yahoo and MSN, who are arch-rivals in business, be running a lottery together?

Would Yahoo, Microsoft and MSN, who are all "for-profit" corporations being running a lottery, which is illegal for them to do?

Did you know that collecting the e-mails addresses, like they claim to do to pick their winner, is illegal?

It is a SCAM!!

Answer 3

Hello.
Did you sign up to participate in any lottery events? If not, that's how you know it's false. As the saying goes, "If it's too good to be true it probably is." If there is an attachment, don't open it. It's how they get you to open it to get a virus or something.


Spread the wealth. Spread more smiles than tears.

Answer 4

Dear GOD.

There are no Window's or Yahoo lotterys. Phishing attempts to steal your identity and empty your bank account.

DELETE IT

Answer 5

in case you ever imagine there is someone accessible in simple terms waiting accessible you a large wad of money, then you're a target for scammers. there is not any loose money accessible for you. don't be a target.

Answer 6

HOW CAN YOU WIN A LOTTERY FOR SOMETHING YOU NEVER ENTERED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

IT'S CALLED SPAM, SOMEONE IS FISHING FOR YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Answer 7

if it is real, then I ve won atleast 20 times this last year.. if it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.

Answer 8

YES, totally bogus. ignore it.

Answer 9

yes u should delete it it is a SCAM.