Is this for real?

Question

Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incoperation
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 March 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.

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

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.Randy
MooreE-mail:[e-mail]
Thank you and Accept my hearty congratulations once again!

Yours faithfully,
Mrs.Gloria Bent
(Yahoo/Msn Lottery Games/Lottery Coordinator).

Answer 1

NO NO NO NO NO.

This is what we call a "fishing scam" where they send this out to a million people and hope that someone will send back, on a silver platter, all of the information they need to get into any account that you already have and to open all sorts of things in your name.

Do not reply, block the sender and throw it away.

Remember, if it's too good to be true, it probably is.

The mispellings are a big hint "incorperation" as opposed to "incorporation"

If you google this, you'll see tons of very similar emails.

Answer 2

It is a total scam. They want you to respond with your personal information. From the info that you provide them, they can access your accts. assume your identity, falsify documents, have access to your banking info, etc. Report this email as spam. DO NOT reply to them. It is not legitimate. Notice that they did not address you by name, that's because they have no idea what your name is until you provide them with it.

Answer 3

I get them, too, but I just delete them without even looking at them. If I do look at them, I usually hit the 'SPAM' button.

Answer 4

This is funny, definate scam.