Is this a scam From: "Lottery Award Promotion"?

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From: "Lottery Award Promotion" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: [e-mail]
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON LOTTERY £800,000!
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:58:17 +0200
Headquarters, No 56 Richards Bay Road,
South Finchley. London N19 0RG.
United Kingdom.RC No. 6036151.

YAHOO IN CONJUNCTION WITH HOTMAIL.

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON £800,000!

24th /03/ 2007

Attention; Sir/ Madam

YahooMail.Com, In Conjunction with HOTMAIL.COM, gives members random
cash
prizes. 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 £800,000 (EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS)
for the
annual lottery win promotion which is organized by yahoo messenger.com

YAHOO, collects all the mail id of the people that are online on Yahoo
Mail
.com, and hotmail. com among the millions that subscribe to yahoo,
hotmail
we only select five people every year 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 details (e-mail address) falls within our Europe
representative office in United Kingdom, as indicated in your play
coupon
and your prize of £800,000 will be released to you from this regional
branch
office in LONDON UK.

We hope with part of your prize, you will participate in our end of
year
high stakes for US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE
These are your identification and winning numbers.
Batch number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto number.......................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

To begin your claims, kindly contact the Judiciary Agent

Dr. Mark Peterson

Tel: [phone]
Tel; +0044 703 186 1157
Fax; [phone]
Email; [e-mail]

You are required to forward him with the following details:
1. FULL NAME
2. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
3. PRESENT ADDRESS.
4. DATE 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 your Claims Agent, 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 program by
non-participant
or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,

Mrs., Filet Garry (PHD PROGRAM CO-ORDINATOR.
Yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com

_________________________________________________________________
Message offline contacts without any fire risk!
http://www.communicationevolved.com/en-za/

Answer 1

I received the same e-mail, but won a bit less :)) My contact persons are completely different than yours. And of course I have to contact the courier they choose. I wonder why couldn't I arrange the courier I prefer?
I am guessing how yahoo can afford this kind of jokes?

Answer 2

absolutely positively a scam.

Guaranteed, anything you get like that in email is a scam.

When you try to collect the money, they will come up with all sorts of reasons why you need to first PAY them money.

Answer 3

I win the lottery daily. It's a big scam, scam scam.

Report it to [e-mail]

Answer 4

Yes- this is one of many scams that get into your email box - do not give any information and delete.