Is this letter from yahoo group, CONGRATULATIONS!!YOU WON $2.200.000.00 US DOLLARS,2nd and last notification?

Question

Yahoo unified! Mail gives members random Yearly cash prizes. Yesterday 14/08/2007, your account is randomly selected as the one of 12 top winners accounts who will get cash prizes from us. We are happy to inform you that you have won prize money of Two Million Two Hundred Thousand USD DOLLARS. ($2.200,000) for the month of July 2007 lottery win mid year promotion which is organized by unified emails i:e yahoo messenger .com/gmail every month and we are glad that this is the end of the promotion until further notice as you are the last ambassador of our promotions.

Yahoo, collects all the mail id of the people that are online on yahoo messenger, among the millions that subscribe to yahoo messenger and all internet users .we only select five people every month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we are congratulating you for been one of the people selected. All participant were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, USA, South America, Asia Europe Middle East, Africa and Oceania 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 your details (e-mail address) falls within our African representative, as indicated in your play coupon and your prize of US$2.200.000 .00 will be released to you from this regional branch office in United Kingdom.

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 numbers.
Batch number.....................Lwh 09445
Lotto number.......................Lwh09446
Winning number...................Lwh09447

TO BEGIN CLAIMS, KINDLY CONTACT OUR FUDUCIARY AGENT:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dr.Robert Ripley
Email: [e-mail]

Tel: [phone]

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO FORWARD TO HIM THE FOLLOWING DETAILS!!!

1.FULL NAME

2.COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

3.PRESENT ADRESS.

4.DIRTH OF BIRTH

5.OCCUPATION

6.TELEPHONE NUMBER

7.FAX NUMBER (IF ANY)

8.MARITAL STATUS

9.WINNING NUMBER, BATCH NUMBER AND LOTTO NUMBER.

10.AMOUNT WON.

As soon as you contact the 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 programme by non-participant or unofficial personnel.

Yours Sincerely,Dr.Martin Oakley(PHD)
LOTTO CO-ORDINATOR.
The Yahoomail

Answer 1

this is definetly a scam.. someone who is Not associated w/ yahoo is sending this pretending to be yahoo. Did you sign up for anything? If not it is fake. No one does random drawings. & they are asking u to foward info to someone in Africa. There are alot of internet scams coming from Africa.. I guess they will not get prosecuted over there or something. Yahoo is an American based company anyway so anything dealing w/ Africa or the UK is fishy. Do not send them any personal info! Next they will tell you they will send you your check but first you need to send them a check to cover the taxes & then they disapear or they will give you a check & you deposit it but it bounces later. Or they might just ask for your bank account # to deposit it & they will actually withdraw.

Answer 2

You know it is fake, they would not just give money away like that. i recieved about 10 dfferent letters from 10 different countries that i have won ( monies combined) over 150 Million dollars. It is a huge scam they are pushing on the masses.

Answer 3

http://contests.about.com/od/conttestscams/tp/sweepstakefraud.htm

This should put up a large red flag for you. Scam is written all over it. Please do not give out your personal information. Once they have that they sell it to every person they can and the next thing you know you are getting phone calls, emails, junk mail, etc.

Answer 4

you can get a great deal from this site as i know

Answer 5

I used to buy from http://www.luxurysell.net/

Answer 6

If it sounds to good to be true.....................