Is it true or a fraud?

Question

YAHOO Award Team
UNITED KINGDOM
Dear Lucky winner,
WINNING NOTIFICATION
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the YAHOO! International
Promotions Program held on the 17th of SEPTEMBER 2007. Your e-mail
address
attached to ticket number 883734657492-5319 with serial number
7263-267, batch
number 8254297137 drew the lucky numbers 14-22-28-37-40-44 which
consequently
won in the 1st category, you have therefore been approved for a lump
sum pay out
of £500,000.00 (i.e Five Hundred Thousand United Kingdom Pounds
Sterling) in
cash credited to file REF:YAHOO6/315116127/27. This is from total prize
money of
£20,400,000.00 shared among the seventeen international winners in
this
category.
Please note that this Promotional Programmes tagged "Thanks for
contributing to
our financial Sucess" was sponsored and organized by the Yahoo
Corporation in
view of the financial benefits YAHOO have received from its numer ous
customers
either through adverts, hosting and personal emails.
The reason this lottery was organized is to thank the numerous public
including
users and non-users of YAHOO MAIL for the financial benefits THE YAHOO
CORPORATION have received as a result of their patronage this financial
year.The
online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses
from an
exclusive list of 29,031 e-mail addresses of individuals and corporate
bodies
picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the
internet.
However, no tickets were sold but all email addresses were assigned to
different
ticket numbers for representation and privacy.
To claim your winning prize, you must first contact the claims
department by email providing the following information.
1. Full name..............
2. Country................
3. Contact Address........
4. Telephone Number.......
5. Marital Status.........
6. Occupation. ............
7. Age....
The claims officer contact email is:
Name: Mr EDWARD REEVES
E-mail: [e-mail]
Tel: [phone]
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs. Amelia Hunts.

Answer 1

Fraud, I get them all the time but usually don't see them as my spam filters catch most of them.

Yahoo does not have any lotteries ever, or will ever.

Answer 2

I would say it is fraud.

Think about it if it was really Yahoo...then they could get this info from you IP address...if they wanted it. And, do you really think a Corporation is gonna give away that much money without an advertising frenzy. What reason would they have to do this as a secret project?

Answer 3

They have simply given me the notice of winners as September 2007 yahoomail lottery

Answer 4

Cannot believe anyone thinks that phony stuff might be legit .

What is true is that they will take your $$$ and clean out your accounts if you even hint to your ###s .

Guess P T Barnum was right ,
There is a sucker born every minute .

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Answer 5

If that is true, so is a $ 3.00 bill with OJ';s picture on it.

Answer 6

FRAUD!