what is this true?

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Yahoo Awards Center
124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB - United Kingdom


This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Seven Hundred, Twenty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (£720,000,00.) for the month of July, 2007 Prize promotion which was organized by YAHOO AWARDS & WINDOWS LIVE.


YAHOO collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail and few from other e-mail providers. Six e-mail addresses were selected annually to benefit from this promotion and your e-mail address were Selected as one of the Winners for 2007.

PAYMENT OF PRIZE AND CLAIM

All winners shall be paid in accordance with his/her Settlement Center. Yahoo Prize Award must be claimed not later than 15 days from date of Draw Notification. Any prize not claimed within this period will be forfeited.

Stated below are your identification numbers:

BATCH NUMBER: MK/06/AQA-49678
REFERENCE NUMBER: 20062945928
PIN: 1606

These numbers fall within the England Location file, you are requested to contact our fiduciary agent in Manchester and send your winning identification numbers to him;


Agent Name: Dr. Johan Nespry
E-Mail: [e-mail]
E_Mail: [e-mail]
E_Mail [e-mail]
Tel: [phone]
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

You are advised to send the following information to your Claims Agent to facilitate the release of your award-winning fund to you.

1. Full name...............................
2. Country..................................
3. Contact Address...................
4. Telephone Number...............
5. Fax Number............................
6. Marital Status.......................
7. Occupation...........................
8. My Date of birth..................
9. Sex........................................

Congratulations!! once again.

Yours in service,








Dr (Mrs.) Jill Nash
Chief Communications Officer
Senior Vice President

Answer 1

No, it sounds like a way of getting you to give them information. A company like Yahoo! would recognize that people might doubt the veracity of an email and wouldn't send you a notification like this without providing you with clear protections. The Dr. (Mrs.) thing at the end sounds to me like someone from a less-developed country.