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• THIS MESSAGE IS DETAILS ARE GIVEN BELOW; FOR YOUR KIND INFORMATION FROM: THE DESK OF THE E-MAIL PROMOTIONS MANAGER INTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS/PRIZE AWARD DEPARTMENT, MSN CORPORATION WORLD LOTTERY UNITED KINGDOM PO BOX 1010 LIVERPOOL L70 1NL UNITED KINGDOM The Yahoo/Msn Lottery Incorporation PO Box 1010, Liverpool L70 1NL, United Kingdom. ==================================== Ref: XYL /26510460037/05 Batch: 24/00319/IPD Congratulations!! We are please to inform you that your email address has won an award in The YAHOO/MSN LOTTERY INC LIVE in conjunction with the MICROSOFT WINDOWS, YAHOO/MSN WINDOWS held on April 27th 2011 in London United Kingdom. The Award center of Yahoo/Msn Inc randomly selected 10 Email addresses Through a computer ballot system to receive an award of Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (£750,000.00) each as a part of their For-Profit philanthropic wing, Award prize must be claimed not later than 12 Days from the date of this Notification after the Draw date in which prize has won. Any prize not claim within this period will be forfeited These are your winning identification numbers below. Batch Number.....................YM09102XN Reff Number.......................YM35447XN Winning Number...................YM09877 NOTE For security reasons, you are advice to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your cash prize is remitted to you. This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program, Please be warned. Below here is the claim verification and funds release form, you are hereby advice to fill and submit back to the fiduciary manager. Our fiduciary Manager will immediately hand over your wining fund to our DELIVERY COMPANY (CITY LINK COURIER EXPRESS) for immediate delivery. VERIFICATION AND FUNDS RELEASE FORM 1. FULL NAMES: 2. ADDRESS: 3. SEX: 4. AGE: 5. MARITAL STATUS: 6. OCCUPATION: 7. E-MAIL ADDRESS: 8. TELEPHONE NUMBER: 9. MOBILE NUMBER: 10. AMOUNT WON: 11. STATE: 12. COUNTRY: 13. NEXT OF KIN: 14. ZIP CODE: 15: NATIONALITY: 16: You’re Reference, Batch and winning numbers: To file for your claim, please fill and submit your verification form To our fiduciary manager immediately via information below. (CONTACT EVENTS MANAGER) Name: Dr.Clinton Peter E-mail: [email protected] Tell +447017030865 +447017515762 Once again congratulations...

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  100% scam. There is no lottery. There is no Nokia, Shell, BBC, Yahoo, Coca-Cola, MSN, Microsoft, BMW or any other company in the entire world that sponsors a lottery that notifies winners via email, phone call or text. There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money. Any phone number that starts with +44-70 or anything similar is not based in the United Kingdom. It is from a UK based cell phone redirect service that can be answered by anyone anywhere in the world. It is a favorite service of scammers who want to pretend to be in the United Kingdom but are really half way around the world from there. The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "lottery official" and will demand you pay for made-up fees and taxes, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram. Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever. Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram. You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information. Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash. Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer. If you google "fake yahoo lottery", "lotto Western Union fraud" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts of victims and near-victims of this type of scam.